"White Knight" oil based paving paint. Avoid water based paint, the paint needs to be hard and paving paint is meant to be walked on. Add the non slip stuff sold for the stuff or your choice of non slip depending on how vicious a surface you need. No primers or undercoat. It will look professional.

While on white knight , kill rust epoxy enamel is sticky stuff ! Use it just the same as Ramona recommends or if you want to stay completely away from marine store prices paint on sprinkle with chunky raw sugar and leave to dry then rinse . Sugar dissolves leaving deck grip

stonedpirate said...
Cool, thanks Ramona.

I noticed on the white knight website that the oil based paving paint is not suitable for salt affected areas. I wonder if they wrote that to discourage use of it on boats?

I used it along with other fishermen, for all the topsides and decks. I used clean dry builders sand. Paint a square metre, sprinkle sand and move on. The sand makes for a severe surface probably too much for hands and bare feet. Paint dries quickly. Available in a range of standard colours, seagull grey is good on decks.

Re deck grip - this is very old school but back when I was a kid I remember my dad (along with my "help") painting the deck of his Swanson Carmen using a mix of paint and sawdust. It was great for grip but very harsh on the knees/bum.

I used tredgrip comes in different colours and is tintable by ordinary paint tints. Waterbased by stays attached despite beinh high traffic racing boat.
Its been on my old boat for 18 months- I'm very happy with it.
Google it to get a WA stockist. I bought mine from Canning river traders Perth.

Or just use the proper stuff - intergrip or the hempel equivalent.

It's not really expensive, works better and it's easy on the feet.

benoz said...
Or just use the proper stuff - intergrip or the hempel equivalent.

It's not really expensive, works better and it's easy on the feet.

I'm interested in what people think of the difference between the proper stuff and other general paints.

Recently I had the rigging replaced so I thought I might paint my painted aluminium mast whilst out of the boat (1984 Northshore 27).

I used an International primer and Perfection topcoat which turned out very expensive. My rigger said just use aluminium fence paint. So this time around for the boom I am using a Dulux Industrial Metal shield which is much cheaper.