What's A Good Deck Paint?

[MontanaAardvark]

I don't think my '05 Starcraft has the original interior. The brochure here is hard to see, but it looks like the original was I/O carpeting with the inner hull surfaces ivory colored. My boat has a dark tan, textured paint on most of the inner hull surfaces, and a light green paint on the floor, the bait well cover and a few other places. The green looks textured, too, less than the brown. At least, it doesn't look like smooth, matte finish.

The green is too thin in high wear places and needs be repainted. What's a good deck paint/treatment? I'm concerned that not knowing what the paint is, I don't want some sort of incompatible finish that causes more problems than it fixes. What about those truck bed liner, heavy paints you see around?

The deck is plywood, so I don't think I need to do a chromate primer - do I?



Thanks,
Bob

 

[jbcurt00]

Re: What's A Good Deck Paint?

Scan thru some threads, there have been many different paint choices of late. Some were commercially available 'paint' finishes that already have grit in them, Durabak is 1 of those, Barato2 used something similar by another manufacturer on top of his bow & gunwales.

Others have mixed sand (fine or pass it thru a sieve to remove larger granules) into standard epoxy resin, blended it well & rolled it out, Jasoutside just did on his Sea Nymph resto. There are other commercially available products that can be substituted for the sand. Again you can scan thru some resto threads & find several choices of additive in various grit levels.

Nautolex is a glue down marine vinyl flooring that many have also been happy w/ recently as well.

I'd recommend staying away from truck bedlining. It is extremely difficult to remove. The entire interior hull bottom in my Jet was treated w/ it. It took me forever w/ extremely harsh, toxic & unforgiving, if you got it on your skin, stripper.

Hope some of this ^^^ helps....

 

[barato2]

Re: What's A Good Deck Paint?

durabak actually has rubber in it rather than sand so it's easier on knees if you fall down. that's what i used and like it so far (haven't splashed the boat yet....:redface but it probably wouldn't be a good choice for you due to the paint compatibility issue you mentioned. the stuff is thinned with xylene, must use their special primer and rollers, and they warn you at length about likely incompatibility.

a better option might be TuffCoat, sold by several of the bigbox stores (Who Shall Remain Unnamed, But Check iBoats First)....similar, with the rubber bits mixed in, but latex based. much easier to clean up after altho it takes several coats to look good and work right.

someone just yesterday posted a link to an outfit that sells traction rubber that you can add to your own paint. here it is: http://www.softsandrubber.com/softsand.html

Nautolex feels nice but i suspect it will require a very lump-free substrate to look good....unless i go back and scrape off all the kamikaze bugs that ended it all in the epoxy, i suspect those lumps would wear through the vinyl fast. what i don;t like about it is that it's only available in colors and not in white.

not sure i share JB's concern with the bedliner, IF YOU'RE ONLY APPLYING IT TO FLOOR PANELS AND NOT HULL. do not get it near your hull for the reasons he mentioned. poor guy is still suffering from PTSD from that nightmare.

 

[barato2]

Re: What's A Good Deck Paint?

and don't listen to old farts with Alzheimer's who can't remember that they just posted this

 

[MontanaAardvark]

Re: What's A Good Deck Paint?

Thanks for ideas. I have not heard of the Nautolex option, which looks nice. My deck is in pretty good shape; it has pedestal seat bases and deck boxes, but otherwise is pretty easy to cover.


Bob

 

[ezmobee]

Re: What's A Good Deck Paint?

I'm a big fan of my Nautolex deck http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w200/ezmobee/New Boat/DSCF2504.jpg