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Andywood
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 05 Apr 2016 : 07:44:00
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cliveshep
Thailand
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Posted - 05 Apr 2016 : 13:55:53
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What I used on all my boats right up to the big Ocean 30 was one or two pack polyurethane mixed with dry silver or paving block sand.
Stir well and mask up your non-slip areas, then STIPPLE it on, not brush it. Stab the brush so you get totally random spread of sand and paint.
When dry paint over it with another top coat.
It is totally non-slip, and extremely hard-wearing whereas bought paints are a matt finish, pick up dirt, cost a lot, and look and feel like the manufacturer has mixed McDougals flour with matt paint the finish is so fine.
Trust me, when your visitors have unsuitable shoes and are walking on your wet side-decks you'll be glad of a genuine non-slip surface especially if unlike my last boat's 12" wide walkway your decks are only 4 0r 5" wide as Norman decks are!
Finally living the dream!
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Deano
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05 Apr 2016 : 18:07:15
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Depends on what you call sensible!!!
Blakes - now Hemple is a strange finish, not unlike fine wet and dry paper. It is easy to walk on bare foot, and grips deck shoes well even when very wet. I quite like the finish, it has a gentle sparkle to it too.
International and the International granules are not bad, it leaves a good colour finish for the paint and a slightly stippled finish... not as good on the feet as Hemple.
Kiwi Grip is one I have not tried, but it goes on a bit like Artex and you 'raise' peaks on the wet surface, a bit like a meringue!!!! Its biggest benefit is that it covers all kinds of sins and previous botched/dying attempts to paint the decks.
If you need a real budget solution, go with the sand.... it looks and wears as well as it costs.
Dean - Boating on the Great Ouse.
Freeman 32 "Liberty"
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trevork
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Posted - 06 Apr 2016 : 00:59:29
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And then there is Protectakote which, although pricey, I found very effective and easy to apply.
http://www.protectakote.co.uk/
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jud
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 Apr 2016 : 10:22:09
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I don't know what the previous owner of my old 32 mixed with the deck paint, but it wouldn't come off even with artex remover.
Had to sand it flattish and paint over it in the end, it took ages.
Moral: Be careful what you put on 'cos it's gotta come off if SHE don't like it!
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cliveshep
Thailand
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Posted - 07 Apr 2016 : 12:33:46
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Trust me, when it is "she" who is lumbered with "hopping off" at locks she won't be too thrilled when she "deep-sixes" herself going into the 'oggin on a foul wet day when all the mud and slime from the last lock is still on your pristine International non-slip-deck-painted side decks and she slips getting off in her lovely new deck-shoes.
She'll not be impressed with a sparkly paint job then whereas a painted sand-finish will give loads of grip as she makes that point-of-no-return desperate leap onto the bank while you make futile and frantic efforts to restart an outboard that has stopped just as you bounce back off the bank.
Been there so many times, seen it so many times with other unfortunates too. It's common sense really - the finer the non-slip surface the easier it is to get filled up with slime during canal operations. Likewise on some rivers without nice paving eetc at lock approaches - not all locks are as pretty and aseptic as the Lower Thames ones, the River Wey is pretty muddy at laybys, canals are most often filthy muddy banks between you and a tow-path. And as for the Broads and Fens - oh dear. And I haven't even touched on ladders on Harbour walls!
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