Nice job. What does it take to remove the furniture seats and rails for the new flooring? What kind of fasteners were used? Was under deck access required?
I'm not the original poster but I have done this job. Did it to my 2001 Benny in 2013. If you've never done anything like this, be advised everything, and I mean everything, has to be removed from the deck. Rails, ladder, furniture, helm, side trim, lights. It is a big job. Took me 5 weekends working on and off.
I definitely needed access to lots of fasteners from the underside and suspect you will too. So my project started with getting the boat off the trailer and onto cribbing. I was working outside in the grass and didn't have the luxury of a car lift or overhead crane. The one tip I have here is if you use a floor jack and wooden block to lift the toons, make sure you put it under one of the vertical supports that separate the chambers in the tube. I started jacking mine right between two of those and the tube started to deform. Quite shocking but luckily it went back to round as soon as I relieved the pressure.
My old boat had all kinds of different fasteners. Generally machine screws with nuts to hold the rails on and wood screws through the rotomolded seat bases to secure the seats to the deck. But there were machine screws with nuts holding some of the pieces of furniture in place. It was a real challenge to get some of the nuts off.
Dealing with helm and everything in it can be daunting. The sales manager at my local Bennington dealer (Chase at Captain's Choice Marine in Leesville, SC) gave me a time and aggravation saving tip: Instead of disconnecting all wiring, motor controls and steering cables to completely remove the helm, loosen everything up a bit and lay it over on it's side next to the deck of the boat.
(Edit to add: My large rolling trash bin matched up perfectly to the height of the deck so I laid the helm on top of it.). When you lay the vinyl or carpet, cut a slit from the side into the hole in the deck that all the wires and cables come through. When you have it all put back together, the trim covers everything (or all but about .25") It is not noticeable.
In my case, I had to cut all the tie wraps for the power steering cable back near the motor and provide some slack to the helm. I also cut all the tie wraps around the 100's of wires and disconnected a large wiring harness connector to create some slack under the helm. But I did not have to disconnect the power steering cables (which likely would have created a huge mess) or the motor controls.
