Pulling a 20 MA deck in one piece?

[FishStretcher]

I have a 1975 Master Angler. Someday, I will do the transom. For now I am making a full height splashwell insert. You could say I am in the most beginning planning stages for a transom rehab, or bracketing job.

My question is- is there a clean way to pull the deck without serious carnage? It seems like the potter putty holding the deck to stringers should give way, and a Master Angler has the deck that is separate from the hull, it just sits on the stringers and has the carpeted hull sides. Mine has pulled away up there already. So forward of the transom seems straightforward. I might have to inflate a basketball or two under the deck to "pop" the bonds, but that seems easy. It is the aft most 2 feet that has me wondering.

It doesn't seem like there is a way to remove the deck from the splashwell, aft boxes and livewell or inner transom without a saw. Or is there? Anyone done it? My deck is in good shape, and I am not going to raise it if I bracket the transom with lots of flotation.