Haha didnt even realize I attached a pic of the swim platform when posting it was a accident. Anyway stumbled across a youtube video a few months back where some one mentioned a swim mat they installed on a sea ray. Got to searching there are a couple of companies that do custom cut swim platform mats that are pre cut and you just prep and stick it but they were in the $500 range and couldnt justify paying that on my budget. So when looking I also found this stuff its called Hydroturf ...... Its the same thing used on most jet skis and the Sea Do jet boats. It comes in different sizes, colors, designs ect and also comes with either a 3M peel of backing that you prep, peel off and stick or bare and you use contact cement. I went with the 3M backing I installed with good temp and a heat gun and its rock solid so far. The 3M backed stuff is more expensive but I didnt want to have to deal with contact cement and getting it to stick and it coming out from under the edges ect. My swim platform has the raised dots for traction outlining the whole platform so I got a piece of the painters masking paper the stuff that is the color of cardboard but is flimsy like thick paper laid it on the platform. Then took some scissors and made a rough cut that would lay down and could be taped over the edge of the raised traction dots, taped it down and used about a 2" piece of crayon layed on its side and rubbed back and forth over the whole outline so when I took the paper up my swim platform outline was on the masking paper. I then cut the outline out with scissors and had my template. Laid the template on the hydro turf used a metallic maker to trace on to the hydrturf and cut it out with a soldering iron with a exacto blade tip end, basically its a small razor blade hot knife. Then it was peel and stick after cleaning the surface. Its pretty easy to find they have a website hydroturf.com I think you can even order samples if I remember right, its on eBay and Amazon as well. I am pretty thrifty so I shopped around and found some on amazon. I think it was around $75 for a big sheet. I know that was a long answer but figured I might get some of the where and how questions so maybe this will help. This is the poor working mans version lol but like I said if you got the disposable cash then you can get one custom cut for your boat. Also I went with Black diamond plate design because my color scheme on my boat is Yellow and white with Black graphics. I was afraid if I did Yellow or White it would show to much dirt, lake water stain ect. I was skeptical about the black being hot in the sun in the summer and not being able to walk or sit on it, but I read a review that it didnt get hot so went with it. Had it out on a few 90+ degree days this year and it does not get hot. It does get warm but nothing close to uncomfortable that will prevent you from sitting or standing on it.
Now the speaker mounts ..... I looked everywhere online for these and couldnt find them. These are actually the factory bezels that hold my rear speakers on my 2006 Q4 ....... I originally wanted to take the ones from the rear and move them to the front and add new bezels in the back that would hold my speakers that had cup holders recessed in them. The problem I ran into was not having enough space to mount between the seat back and grab handle, I did find some that would fit but they were gonna be almost $300 so I had to scrap that idea and locate the OEM ones like I have on the rear of my boat. I ended up calling Bass Pro as my last resort because nothing there is ever cheap in my opinion but Bass Pro was the only dealer anywhere around me with the ability to locate them in stock from their inventory and ship it to me without special order from the manufacture and could have taken weeks. There was 2 in inventory out in California they shipped them to my house and did everything over the phone.
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