Jotun or Hempel deck paint

[geem]

We had our decks painted with Awgrip and their stupidly expensive Griptex additive in 2021. Since then, we have done 10,000nm and been living onboard full-time.
The Awlgrip paint and none slip additive is not durable. The high traffic areas are now slick and no longer safe. We want to replace the deck paint with another product.
Hemel and Jotun, both do a polybead equivalent none slip additive. We like the theory of polybeads as they suck up the paint such that any wear to the deck doesn't show through as a mass of black dots like you get with sand none slip additives. Does anybody have experience of the these two products side by side?
Jotun 2 pack paint is far cheaper than Awlgrip and I am not convinced Awgrip paint is the quality it once used to be. I would not go with Awgrip again. We plan to use Jotun 2 pack paint but we are not yet sure which additive we will use. It won't be the Awgrip Griptex or sand or aluminium oxide.
Being liveaboards, the boat gets about 5 times the use of a boat used for normal recreational sailing in the UK. We are a great test bed for lots of things, particularly deck paint.
If we can't get a definitive answer, we plan to paint the steps in the boatyard workshop with the two different paint additives in a jotun 2 pack paint so we can create a working test bed. It should then become obvious which is best

 

[rogerthebodger]

My boat was sprayed with Alexseal yacht paint that is supposed to be equivalent to Awgrip a linear polyurethane which is difficult to repair and get the same finish.

My deck had a type of treadmaster glued on using a sikaflex type sealer and all was good until the UV too hold and T removed the treadmaster and like you looking for a replacement.

I would be interested in your tests and opinion.

I was looking at off white roof paint with play pen sand sprinkled on the fleshly painted costing the cleaned and painted afterwards but have no experience in the type of finish

 

[Humblebee]

There are other suppliers, I used SML paint and beads. Granted I am on board a lot less than you but it seems to be holding up well and is an economical option.

SML Anti-Slip Beads

 

[scozzy]

As you say yourselves , you are putting the boat ,and therefore coatings thru approx 5X normal wear and tear.So to extrapolate out,the 3 years you've had x5 would equal ....... 15 yrs "normal" service!
Not too bad Id say for any finish.I run a decorating business and 15 yrs for any finish to be still performing well in any context is at the far end of believable,particularly high traffic areas.What can you hope to learn from a "test bed" conducted for a boat finish if its undercover?

 

[geem]

There are other suppliers, I used SML paint and beads. Granted I am on board a lot less than you but it seems to be holding up well and is an economical option.

SML Anti-Slip Beads

Thanks. We may add those beads to the test steps in the workshop

 

[steveeasy]

Used to use Hempels multicoat on my decks. Actually I really miss painting my decks each spring. No good having a boat that doesn’t need it’s decks painting.
Steveeasy

 

[geem]

Used to use Hempels multicoat on my decks. Actually I really miss painting my decks each spring. No good having a boat that doesn’t need it’s decks painting.
Steveeasy

You have to be joking! I have better things to do than paint the deck each year.
There doesn't seem to be a perfect product. Several seem to be single pack paint solutions. These will last about 5 mins on a liveaboard boat.

 

[Keith 66]

I used Hempel multicoat once. It proved to be very non durable & wore away quickly.
Jotun paints are excellent, I use SML marine. Out of interest they do their own brand of 2 packs alongside the Jotun, as far as i can see from the data & coshh sheets it is the same product in a different can, only cheaper.
Whats not to like?