Dear Hielke,
My experience with threadmaster decking is a favourable one.
First I painted the deck with mono-polyurethane paint. That was fine, but
the deck became too slippery.
So I mixed the mono-polyurethane paint with fine glasspearls and
painted the parts of the deck where you walk, as a rule, the result looked
magnificient. However, ..... in the course of the season the \'rough\' part
of the deck became grey and dirty, due to precipitation from the air.
After all our air is not so clean any more. I tried cleaning it , to no
avail. It looked old and dirty after one season only.
So I read about threadmaster and ínspected some yachts here in the
Naarder Yachting Harbour.
One Vega use black threadmaste and indeed, it had plenty of curling
sides and dirty patches.
So I bought a off- white threadmaster , cut it to measure and glued it on
the deck. Mind you there is a special expensive glue for this, you have to
roughen the deck first with suitable sanders. (And lots of sanding
papers).
Now its fine, some patches were dirty and greenish with algae. I
brushed it thouroughly yesterday and it looks like new again.
I bought the threadmaster from Vreeken Zeilmakerij in Loosdrecht.
Good luck.
Regards,
Henk Jansen
Vega 1687.