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Boat Choices... teak decks
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"Leanne" wrote: "DSK" wrote in message . .. In short, I own a boat with a teak deck... they're beautiful but they are not practical in any way... the maintenance is awful, the surface is unreliable, and if it's screwed down over cored fiberglass it's a lurking rot instigator. Our teak deck is coming off in the near future, to be replaced by either plain fiberglass with painted non-skid, or perhaps those industrial textured non-skid materials. A friend of mine has a Choy Lee that had the deck problem and he removed the teak and replaced it with Treadmaster. I have it on my boat, which I love, but it is awful on bare feet. I love to go barefoot, and I do not find that Treadmaster is terrible on bare feet. Just very non-slippery. But of course I can walk on gravel barefoot (although I have to be cautious), and I've learned how to walk across a parking lot on a hot day by staying on the white paint lines that mark out the parking spaces. I do draw the line at things like glass, rose bush cuttings and American Chestnut hulls (which have tiny spines) OTOH, my husband doesn't go barefoot at all and has very tender feet. He's pretty AR about not letting anyone on deck with bare feet when underway. And I have proved to myself that the non-Treadmaster parts of the deck are slipperier with bare feet than with shoes. grandma Rosalie |
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