[tartuffe]

I pulled my cap about 3 weeks ago. Like you said, fuel lines (including vent line), wire going from tank to fill cap, bilge hoses, thru hulls in the transom.

I lodged a board in the front through one of my floor hatches (center console) rather than tie to that front cleat. Mine weighs around 400 pounds. I used an excavator, came right off. There is a putty they used to seat the cap to the stringers but there was no adhesion to speak of between the stringers and deck.

Project start to cap being off in the air took around 4 hours.

I started with a transom replacement after my "solid" transom leaked water when I installed a new GPS and found my stringers were shot.