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Thanks for the input, TwoSheds and CoolRunnings. Yes, just to confirm, appearance is of zero concern, and the non-slip makes good sense (I've done the sand/ sugar/ proprietary etc. in the past).
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Been a while since I frequented this forum - life got in the way of boats.
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Now I have to replace a 5/8 inch plywood floor in an aluminium-hulled runabout with 50HP outboard. There are four...

A short report on my recent attempts to lift cured silicone from a fibreglass panel on a boat. The panel is interior and does not have a smooth, flat surface. The silicone was spread over about one...

Also interested in a powered winch.

Quoted price does seem steep indeed. Thinking aloud - wondering whether some purpose designed 'deck winches' would have electronics to sense tension and other...

Any members in Australia know what the leading paints (best quality) are, available locally, that meet the above category description ?

Looking at a couple of local chandlery catalogues...

Suggest you read the thread "WOOD COATINGS" started 6 March 2011, which discusses Aquacote.

As always PAR had some useful insights.

In my experience with brushing, the gloss was...

Same experience as above - in winter I have also had to wait more than 24h to be able to sand epoxy even though daytime temperatures were about 16C.
I once did a backyard A-B comparison on Bote-Cote...

Just a plaudit for Asrainox - for your detailed write-up of experience with Hoop Pine, Gaboon and Maple plywoods. Reading that can save chancers like me heaps of time. Good stuff.

Thank you for that, PAR, clearly advice coming from considerable experience. Seems my options are limited unless I can utilise heat.

On the weekend I had to get some paint primer down onto cabin-top gelcoat asap to ensure the primer dries before sundown (boat on water).
The day before I had filled dozens of under-10mm screw...

I bought some of the Aquacote water-based paint (white), and I found that a single coat is very thin indeed. I applied white Aquacote to an off-white base, and after a single coat it remained...

Haven't used the sausage format before but would like to. Mind telling how you seal the front opening of the sausage bag, after you have cut off the hardened portion (I assume you cut the hardened...

I've seen a sample of Sika 11FC - bonding a piece of timber to metal, with the Sika being about 8mm thick. You could feel the flex, but could not budge it by hand. I was impressed.

However, as...

Thanks all for your replies - all make good sense.
Situation makes clamping a bit difficult, so I'm going with gluing a rough plug into the existing hole, probably using 5-min epoxy (plug and glue...

Hi, trying to enlarge an existing 52mm hole through 12mm fibreglass to a dia of 60mm.

Using a holesaw, so main problem seems to be able to hold the thing steady without the centre drill being able...

G'day, I'm Karsten and spend a fair bit of time messing around with boats. Not brand new ones, though, therefore I get to do a lot of work with wood, stainless and epoxy. Reading some past threads,...