Non-skid fibreglass surface.
Submitted by ranmar850 on Tue, 2017-02-28 20:12
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Just thought i'd post this here. In a thread on another forum re non-skid deck surfaces on glass boats, someone suggested using a dry roller to lift the flowcoat as it went tacky, as an alternative to the old standbys of sand, sugar etc . I recently did a glassed timber top for my cleaning table at home, and of course fresh flowcoat is very slippery and hard to skin on. So I gave the roller idea a go, and it came up well. Certainly non-skid, no problems skinning Spaniards, and easy to clean. Worth consideration if you want to redo an old flowcoat surface as non-skid.
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Moist and Salty
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Looks really good mate, I'll
Looks really good mate, I'll keep that in mind when I do mine
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Swompa
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Phoenix Paint do a rubber
Phoenix Paint do a rubber impregnated paint that is great for decks. Yeah it will take your skin off if you were to get dragged along it but once it has worn down a bit, it is great stuff.
ranmar850
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I have used the Pheonix deck paint
Used it on my ali crayboat on slippery , non checker plate areas (after applying an etch primer)--foredeck , forward parts of the gunwhales where you climbed over, across the transom cap. It is certainly non-skid. Only problem with that kind of finish is that it is a bastard to get off when you need to renew, and it will wear--it just clogs up any kind of abrasive disc you try to use on it. I've also used it on ply floors in tinnies. The above finish would be more suitable for the ply floor on an older glass boat, one without fancy cork, teak, or other stick-on types of finish. My current finish is flowcoat with a scattering of coarse sand, which I then rollered another thin layer of flowcoat over. This makes it totally non-skid without being hard on bare feet over a long day. But if I had to redo it, I'd probably take the above method. Not a fan of the old traditional carpet stuck to ply floors--been there, you need to be both very careful about bait and blood, and also wet vac with shampoo at least once a year , or it just stinks. And it is keeping the deck area wet for longer, with doesn't help with longevity, IMHO. There are other, better options out there.