After working on my wooden floorboards inside the cabin for the past three years I finally gave up on them. I removed the wooden floorboards and replaced them with a sheet of .063 thick aluminum tread plate. You know - the stuff they make tool boxes etc. that you see in the back of pick-up trucks. I love it! I thought it might be slippery when wet, but after all it is made for tread plate. Not slippery at all. It gives the old "J" a new look. (Although non-traditional). I cut a piece of treadplate 39" x 96" to cover the forward part of the sole. I cut out a hatch over the bilge. Then I made a template and pieced together a couple pieces fit at the aft end and around the engine cover. It really looks clean - and is easy to maintain. And weighs less than my wooden floorboards.
