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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Steve Milby[/i] [br]If LineX has a marine version, it's certainly worth considering, but I've seen some marine products that didn't work as promised, so you should proceed with caution. I searched Sailnet's website and this link is the only thread I found on LineX. It isn't much, but one guy likes it FWIW. [url]https://www.sailnet.com/search/84878/?q=LineX&o=relevance[/url] As between paint and gel coat, paint can be applied by a do-it-yourselfer. Most people don't have the equipment or know-how to spray on gel coat. Modern boat paints can be applied with a roller and have a nice gloss. Twenty years ago, a friend's boat was painted with a dark blue hull and white decks. Dark colors hold up better than light colors. The decks were repainted a couple times. From 20 feet away, the boat still looks good. After 20 years, gel coat wouldn't look much better. When refinishing decks, you have two primary concerns - aesthetics and non-skid. The original non-skid is molded into the fiberglass. If it wears away, the deck becomes slippery. If the little depressions get filled with paint, it becomes slippery. In either case, painting it or applying LineX probably won't restore the non-skid quality. That's what KiwiGrip does well. Spraying non-skid areas with gel coat would [u]not[/u] restore the non-skid. Painting a boat isn't a perfect solution, but neither is gel coat, and, I suspect, neither is LineX. Each has positive and negative qualities. When you consider the cost and labor involved in restoring a boat, maybe the better course would be to sell the present boat and buy one that's still in good condition, and that has better, newer equipment. There are lots of nice older boats out there that can be bought for less than $350. a foot. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.