Deck Repair
We thought it would be nice to clean up the deck, take some old hardware off and clean up the deteriorated deck non-skid and gelcoat. We thought it might take a few weekends. Did I mention this was my first sailboat project? haha.
Maybe 100 hours of labour?
1) Fittings and degraded gelcoat removed/sanded off. We tried to keep her sailable for as much of the time as possible, so we left some crucial hardware on until the last minute!
Step 2, fill holes, low spots and fair.
Then paint the trim and non-grip surfaces with Awlgrip primer and topcoat (Snow White with matte-additive), using the roll and tip method. The candystriper rollers and wooster ultrapro soft brushes were the best we found (thank you internets)
Then mask off and paint the nonskid areas with Kiwigrip. This actually went to fast that I scarcely have photos of the process. Super easy! The best part is the kiwigrip is so thick and irregular that it hides a multitude of fairing sins.
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