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Old 06-15-2015, 08:09 AM   #32
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"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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