Ok so I have a 24 Outlaw that I am pretty much redoing. Now I redid the back seat frame to change the speaker layout from an old system that I am replacing with a whole new system, and I need to recover the front which was covered by carpet same color thats in the boat. So I just said screw it I'll put new carpet on the seat face where it had it before, and I'll just re carpet the rest of the boat to match. Here is the boat with the old carpet:


To give some information on the new layout: I re did the dash in all new livorsi blue rimmed platinum faced gauges with polished bezels, and made the dash panel carbon fiber along with all of the switch panels. I powder coated the throttle base in blue with polished bezel to match livorsi's blue and powder coated the levers platinum. Tied it together with a spargi style platinum steering wheel.

Now I am 2nd guessing the original plan, and thinking I should just gelcoat the front face of the seat which was covered in carpet, along with the inside storage area of the seat white, and leave the blue carpet in there just give it a good cleaning. If I do all of the carpet my plan is to go away from the blue, and was going to use a solid grey(I have blue LEDs in the gunnels that I think the blue will look good with, but unsure about the grey). The blue cockpit carpet doesn't match the cuddy carpet currently, so doing new carpet would make it all match, but you can't really see the cuddy carpet cause its pretty much covered by cushions, so not sure how big of a deal them not matching is?, and cuddy is in fine shape.

I do have the carpet picked out that i would use, it is 20 oz boat carpet in Graphite, and would cost me about $250 for 160 sq/ft of the carpet and glue, which I think would be more then enough to do the whole boat. I got samples of all of there greys from marinecarpeting.com and the greys that boatcarpet.com has and I like the Graphite one the best. Here is the link to the carpet colors with the graphite in there:
http://www.marinecarpeting.com/catal...57/image/1194/

What do you guys think of the blue? do you think replacing the blue with the grey is a bad idea? do you think gel coating the back seat face where the speakers are and inside the seat storage area is a good idea or bad idea? Any suggestions, thoughts, or things i may haven't thought of feel free to let me know. Thanks guys

Man. I think your boat looks nice in the pic! This is before you did any work?

Yes, this is actually the pic in the add the guy posted that I purchased it from. I got carried away, and did alot of stuff that honestly could have been left alone. But gotta make it yours and nicer I guess lol. I replaced the system cause it had some mismatching stuff, and had a 4 8" sub set up, and I went to a 2 10" set up with bigger mid/highs in the back and added 6.5's up high in the gunnels. Also got better more efficient running amps to push the system. The whole carpet scenario is only brought on cause I have to find a solution to re cover the back seat, and the more I look at it I am back and forth. Am more leaning towards just re doing all the carpet to freshen it up, and bring more focus to the blue's in the boat. Right now its alot of blue

Stick with the blue, I have alot of purple in mine but, purple carpet is the only way to go with it.

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Here is the dash with gauges



Here are the controls


I did blue LED lighting down the gunnels in the cockpit, in the engine compartment, and under the swim platform. I had my battery boxes, diamond plating for the boxes in the engine room, and upper plenum all done in blue. And I did a complete Memphis Marine system with 2 6X9's, 2 8's, 2 6.5's, and 2 10" subs. Powered by 2 ARC Audio XDi805 amps which gives me the ability to add another set of speakers if I want to. Guy before me had interior redone a year or so ago except for bolsters so I had the bolsters redone.I bought the boat with no motor, so put a freshened gen VI 502 MPI in it with an arizona speed package and lightening headers with dry tails, should be about 540hp, and re painted the bilge before motor goes in. Also, put on a Mayfair add on steering system. There as some other small things I did like cleaning up all the wiring, bilge pump, blower hoses, etc... Its coming together though, and the carpet is like the final decision.

The dash looks sweet!

Yea turned out nice, I cut a new one out at work, and spaced them all out to add bezels and add 2 more gauges to the dash. Then had it hydro dipped carbon fiber, it isn't perfect, but I am happy with how it turned out, not to mention the savings of doing it myself.

I see you cut speakers up higher, how difficult was that? The 6.5's I have I was going to put either above the handle at the rear seat, or below like you did. Any reason you picked below? For the front ones is the wood 1 piece or did you have to cut 2 pieces where the vinyl is seamed? Is there a concern at that seam where the vinyl could come unsitched? And where did you put the one on the drivers side?

Stereo was already installed when I bought the boat, and to be honest I have never really looked very close at it. I was told that the new stereo was done at the same time as the interior redo.

Here is the driver's side.

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