Non-slip painting question

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When (if) we get some warm weather this year I am going to paint Sunrunners' decks in Kiwigrip non-slip paint. I've bought it in white which I think will look good on her white gelcoated decks and intend to apply it in a block pattern like the moulded in non-slip in an AWB.

My question relates to applying the paint on the corners which join eg the roughly vertical cabin sides with the roughly horizontal cabin roof. On boats with mould-in non-slip the rounded corners joining these faces (roughly two inches radius on Sunrunner) are not non-slip but it seems to me that they are the exact places where you could expect a misplaced step to cause a slip ?

Consider, the boat is hard over on its ear and you go forward walk along the cabin sidewall (being the nearest to horizontal plane available). If you then move amidships it's very likely your foot will fall on the corner between the cabin side and cabin roof with a slip being the likely consequence.

So painting these edge corners would seem an obvious thing to do but I can see a few disadvantages as well :

  1. It'll be hard to roll the non-stick pattern on the 2" radius
  2. It won't look like other boats
  3. The pattern at the corner edge will be prominent and might wear quite fast

Sorry is this seems a bit anal and ocd, but does anyone have any thoughts about this ? If you painted your decks, what did you do ?

Thanks,

Boo2
 
Boo2 said:
When (if) we get some warm weather this year I am going to paint Sunrunners' decks in Kiwigrip non-slip paint. I've bought it in white which I think will look good on her white gelcoated decks and intend to apply it in a block pattern like the moulded in non-slip in an AWB.

My question relates to applying the paint on the corners which join eg the roughly vertical cabin sides with the roughly horizontal cabin roof. On boats with mould-in non-slip the rounded corners joining these faces (roughly two inches radius on Sunrunner) are not non-slip but it seems to me that they are the exact places where you could expect a misplaced step to cause a slip ?

Consider, the boat is hard over on its ear and you go forward walk along the cabin sidewall (being the nearest to horizontal plane available). If you then move amidships it's very likely your foot will fall on the corner between the cabin side and cabin roof with a slip being the likely consequence.

So painting these edge corners would seem an obvious thing to do but I can see a few disadvantages as well :

  1. It'll be hard to roll the non-stick pattern on the 2" radius
  2. It won't look like other boats
  3. The pattern at the corner edge will be prominent and might wear quite fast

Sorry is this seems a bit anal and ocd, but does anyone have any thoughts about this ? If you painted your decks, what did you do ?

Thanks,

Boo2
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i brush mine on with no probs & your deck is a smaller sister to me (Oyster37 - One tonner )
 
I've also got white Kiwigrip and I painted it about 15mm up and down the vertical on each surface. My previous non slip had, as you mention, a border of around 50mm on the horizontal - seems a daft idea to me as that where the Awlgrip got screwed first.
 
npf1 said:
I've also got white Kiwigrip and I painted it about 15mm up and down the vertical on each surface. My previous non slip had, as you mention, a border of around 50mm on the horizontal - seems a daft idea to me as that where the Awlgrip got screwed first.
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How are you finding the Kiwigrip? Is it any good? My decks need doing and I'm not that impressed with the international stuff, it's not grippy enough....
 
multihullsailor6 said:
You can have Kiwigrip coloured to your liking by a professional paint mixer.
However, have you thought about the heat black will generate both on and below deck?
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The boat is a RIB with black tubes! Nice and warm in this country and if you get below deck the temperature is the least of yor problems! ;)
 
G12 said:
How are you finding the Kiwigrip? Is it any good? My decks need doing and I'm not that impressed with the international stuff, it's not grippy enough....
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It's been on there for two years now and seems to be lasting very well so far. It is not particularly easy to get pristinely clean, but then again the Awlgrip stuff on there before wasn't easy either - but the Kiwigrip is a little more difficult as the finish I've got is coarser than the Awlgrip.

I read somewhere that applying a thinned out coat of Kiwigrip over the top would fill any tiny voids which are the hardest part to get clean - I intend to do this one day.

One other recommendation I have if using white Kiwigrip is slap a coat of white primer down first to get a uniform colour. I ended up using a lot of Kiwigrip to get enough built up to hide the different shades of the substrate. It would have been way cheaper and quicker to have primed everthing in white first.

Also, it doesn't seem to get a dirty as I thought it would. I was down there yesterday and although it could to with a clean, it isn't filthy even though it was last cleaned in August. But that could be due to the lack of rain we've had this winter. But then again, I'm not the sort to spend more time polishing the boat than using it!

As for grip, I'd say it's very good in both wet (no-one's slipped yet!) and dry and fine on bare feet too.
 
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Boo2 said:
When (if) we get some warm weather this year I am going to paint Sunrunners' decks in Kiwigrip non-slip paint. I've bought it in white which I think will look good on her white gelcoated decks and intend to apply it in a block pattern like the moulded in non-slip in an AWB.

My question relates to applying the paint on the corners which join eg the roughly vertical cabin sides with the roughly horizontal cabin roof. On boats with mould-in non-slip the rounded corners joining these faces (roughly two inches radius on Sunrunner) are not non-slip but it seems to me that they are the exact places where you could expect a misplaced step to cause a slip ?

Consider, the boat is hard over on its ear and you go forward walk along the cabin sidewall (being the nearest to horizontal plane available). If you then move amidships it's very likely your foot will fall on the corner between the cabin side and cabin roof with a slip being the likely consequence.

So painting these edge corners would seem an obvious thing to do but I can see a few disadvantages as well :

  1. It'll be hard to roll the non-stick pattern on the 2" radius
  2. It won't look like other boats
  3. The pattern at the corner edge will be prominent and might wear quite fast

Sorry is this seems a bit anal and ocd, but does anyone have any thoughts about this ? If you painted your decks, what did you do ?

Thanks,

Boo2
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Maybe better going to Specsavers!:D
C_W
 
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