"If we do decide at some point to strip and repair the surface smooth to start over"
Great idea . When the deck is clean and smooth purchase some cotton mosquito net from A northern supplier.
You want as course cotton weave as you can purchase..
Pencil the no skid pattern on the deck , lay on the cotton after ironing it flat (spray starch helps) and transfer the deck design to the cotton.Cut it out.
A thin layer of 2 part epoxy paint is rolled on the deck, the cotton laid inside the pencil guide and another thin layer of 2 part is rollled on top.
The cotton sucks up the paint so the weave is accuentated.
As strong as the quality of the epoxy used , as fancy as you chose to layout and best of all when someone drags a anchor and makes a grove , you sand cotton , not sand for the next repaint.
Get it right and it looks like the bottom deck of a Boston Whaler .
Cheap too,,,,,
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