Okay.. All the interior is out of the boat..what better time to replace the carpet right? I want to remove the carpet..the boat is 25 yrs. Old.. original carpet.. Faded Jade Green.. want to know what to use to remove. It without eating the seals in the bilge pumps..but effectively remove the old adhesive. Anyone ever tackle this project before? What do I use to loosen the Carpet, what do I do to clean the old adhesive off and rinse it away with?

bilge pumps don't have seals. just an impeller in a housing like a car water pump...heck, it is a water pump!! i would try a sharp putty knife or razor scraper first before spending dinero on highly flammable solvents to pour into your boat. but if the solvent doesn't loosen it, throw in a match and run...

oh, there is another guy on here name Pachanga22. guess what boat he has? anyway, he is looking for interior stuff for his boat. if you guys are close enough together, mebbe same trim guy could do 2 interiors off 1 set of patterns...

Good luck.
I just took the carpet out of my boat.
The adhesive is hard to remove , well, it was the way I did it.

I tried pretty much everything, even a few you shouldn't use, right up to paint stripper.
The paint stripper I had would remove the adhesive ok, but would eat your gel coat if left on too long.
Hence I don't recommend it. It worked well, but not worth the risk.

The hardware store adhesive strippers I tried did work, but required a lot of product and elbow grease with scraping to complete the job.
Basically they soften the glue, then you scrape the gum off & wipe & scrape & wipe etc etc etc. A long slow tedious job. But it works.
However I figured a lot hard work was beter than damaged gel coat inside the cabin.

Becareful, know the dangers of your products before using them.

I found this site - maybe worth a try ... talking about in houses, but still carpet adhesive.
A few interesting ideas.

"I just removed tile mastic and carpet adhesive and I tried about 5 different chemicals... 4 (mineral spirits, paint remover, xylene, acetone) of which didn't work at all. Finally, after just about giving up we found this stuff by Sentinel called 747"

" ....for latex carpet adhesives- Sentinel 626"

See: http://boards.hgtvremodels.com/eve/f...1/m/8431067722

Having said that.......

It maybe wise to call the manufacturer of Sentinel ( whoever that is ) and see if it will work on gel coat / fiberglass without damage.

Obviously, the other option is to just buy it and try it on a non conspicuous area first.