Kelpie
Well-known member
With some trepidation, I am beginning to plan a major amount of work on the whole deck and coachroof area of my boat. Eek!
She is GRP with plentiful treadmaster on both deck and coachroof. It's in poor condition and I hate the stuff anyway so want to remove it and end up with a Kiwigrip finish. But I also have a shallow and next to useless anchor locker that I would like to remove, as it cuts into the forecabin headroom.
So it looks like I should do the following:
- Strip off every deck fitting
- Remove the treadmaster
- Cut out the well of the anchor locker, and use glass tape and epoxy to seal the locker lid in place on the deck. I'll need to remake the headlining underneath obviously.
- Any improperly made holes in the deck need to be filled and re-drilled
- Final pre-painting sand of the whole area
- Mask up the areas that are to be non slip, and paint these with Kiwigrip
- Paint the remaining areas with Toplac
- Refit all the deck fittings using butyl tape
It seems like a big job when you write it out like that. I'm thinking of starting on this at the end of the summer, doing the bulk of the work over the winter, and then finishing up with the painting in the spring. I'm going to get quotes for getting the boat into a shed but I don't know if I'm going to be able to stretch to that, at least not for the kind of time that I would need.
Any thoughts, encouragement, words of wisdom from those who have been here?
She is GRP with plentiful treadmaster on both deck and coachroof. It's in poor condition and I hate the stuff anyway so want to remove it and end up with a Kiwigrip finish. But I also have a shallow and next to useless anchor locker that I would like to remove, as it cuts into the forecabin headroom.
So it looks like I should do the following:
- Strip off every deck fitting
- Remove the treadmaster
- Cut out the well of the anchor locker, and use glass tape and epoxy to seal the locker lid in place on the deck. I'll need to remake the headlining underneath obviously.
- Any improperly made holes in the deck need to be filled and re-drilled
- Final pre-painting sand of the whole area
- Mask up the areas that are to be non slip, and paint these with Kiwigrip
- Paint the remaining areas with Toplac
- Refit all the deck fittings using butyl tape
It seems like a big job when you write it out like that. I'm thinking of starting on this at the end of the summer, doing the bulk of the work over the winter, and then finishing up with the painting in the spring. I'm going to get quotes for getting the boat into a shed but I don't know if I'm going to be able to stretch to that, at least not for the kind of time that I would need.
Any thoughts, encouragement, words of wisdom from those who have been here?
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