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Protective matting, covering for deck areas.


SteveKos

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I am looking for options for a rubberised mat or something similar to apply to the cockpit and high wear areas of my newly built Spindrift 11. I can see the floor is going to get a beating with scratches and dings spoiling my nice pristine boat :angry: . What do you guys recommend?

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I bought a piece of hydro turf from amazon a while back for the amas of my trimaran and really liked it. It was nice and comfortable for sitting on. It's a sticky back foam tread that you can cut up. I stuck it to glossy topcoat and it held perfectly through the everglades challenge. It's about 6mm thick and they use it mostly for coating pwcs and stand up paddle boards. I think I found a piece 36"x60" for about 80 bucks. I think it would be nice on the bottom of a small boat if you like to sail barefoot. It probably would stain though if you sail around red mud.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Steve:

 

I'm hearing good things about this product:

 

http://kiwigrip.com/

 

One example of how it is applied:

 

 

In other videos the product is slopped on from the bucket (technical term) then spread evenly with a notched spreader. The size of the notches determining the thickness of the coating and thus level of texture.

 

I would think if  guy was really concerned about an area, he could put down a layer of xynole polyester fabric, then a thick layer of this product and it would be pretty much bomb proof. If you did manage a nick or gouge, this would be easy to touch up.

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Come on Charlie, don't you have specially prepared shirts, just for this reason, often prep'd from a previous painting session? Man I have a lot of them. They end up being dust rags or solvent wipes, before getting tossed.

LOL- Yep- got lots of those.. I did say " long sad experience" :)

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