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Forgot Silent: yes, I used the the AwlGrip non-skid, which is interesting stuff.
This hull must have sat in the sun it's whole life, but it did have a nice marine blue canvas cover, but whether it sat uncovered, I don't really know.
An awful lot of the horizontal surfaces had gel coat crazing [spider-webs]. While filling in all deck liner holes [+/- 80-90], I decided to abandon thought of trying to hide each one individually and went with AwlGrip LP in BW Desert Tan formula.
I opened all the spiders webs with a dremel using a fine metal cone bit much like a dental drill. Faired in all with a thickened 'peanutbutter-like' WestSystem paste- lots of small plastic trowling and wipe away excess. Since there was no easy way of reproducing non-skid pattern, decided to mask out all the non-skid panels and apply AwlGrip non-skid.
Here's where its interesting: AwlGrip has 3 grades of non-skid, which if you were assessing by looks in the can before use, you might conclude that even the most coarse grade looks fine like sugar and therefore I picked the most coarse. Wrong assessment. The product grows or pops up like pop-corn once it makes contact with paint that hasn't yet set, by chemical reaction. The result for me is that it was so coarse, you couldn't drag your bare knees or fore arms, and wasn't so gentle on hands either. Once it was set and standing up, I 'softened' it a bit by skimming it with a very thin, sharp 8 inch wide drywall trowel knife. That took it down a bit and I gave it another coat to fill it a hair. Worked well, but still rough compared to OEM patterned gel coat. There will be no slipping here, which is 180 from the straight painted panels, which when wet are very very slick. I'm very pleased with the product, which is hard and will require direct hits with sharp edges to knick or scratch. Likely will scratch or chip with hard landings of metal fish lures, or dropped tools, but oh well, until then its crazy shiney like a polished new gel coat finish. Also did the exterior transom and 2- 12 x 12 square repair areas that were only 3x3 inch injuries by PO.