Re: Interior paint
vegard,<br /><br />I don't know what kind of boat you have, but I was going to do something similar on my 18' Fish/Ski that I use primarily for wakeboarding. If this is strictly a fishing boat you might like the look, but if it is a ski boat, and you like that look, then I would not recommend it. All of my friends chided me that I owned a "shrimping boat" when they saw it.<br /><br />Regardless, if you're going to do this here is what I tried:<br /><br />First, tried some Marine Epoxy or Enamel or something like that. It comes in two cans that you mix. They added some "SharkBite" poweder to the mixture for me to give it a rough coating so that it would be non-slip. Well, $160 later, it was very slippery. I tried doing another coat with about twice as much powder in it. That did nothing. Then I tried some poweder that Boater's World had that was basically the same thing, and I got the same results. The last thing I tried was a textured roller which did not do a thing for me either. It's possible that if I had sprayed it on, it may have come out better.<br /><br />What I should have done was get some CoteLiner (kind of like Rhino Liner/Line-X) and used that. It's even more expensive, but I think that it would've worked.<br /><br />What I ended up doing was installing carpet using Indoor/Outdoor contact cement. The I/O carpet that I purchased at home depot cost about $120 with the glue and trowel. It looks fantastic and in my opinion is higher quality carpet than what the manufacturer used originally. Now I have great carpeting with a $150 primer coat. Oh well, what are you gonna do?<br /><br />CP
