How Do You Protect And Polish Non-Skid Decks Without Making Them Slippery?
Published: Monday, June 4, 2018
Everyone knows not to wax non-skid surfaces on your boat. Doing so makes them dangerously slippery, especially when wet. Slipping and falling can result in injury, or worse, going overboard and possibly drowning.
The question is: how do you keep your non-skids clean and shiny? Dirt sticks like a magnet, footprints are hard to clean, and you need a chisel to remove bird and spider poo. The only solution seems to be scrub, scrub, scrub. However, aggressive scrubbing opens the pores in the gelcoat and dulls the gelcoat, making it more difficult to clean... so, more scrubbing. Eventually, you'll wear right through the gelcoat. Is this what you signed up for when you bought your boat?
Now, there's a better way. Sure Step from Aurora Marine Industries is a pressure-sensitive polymer, sealant, and polish that restores the new boat shine to your non-skids, eliminates scrubbing and cleaners, there's no slipping, and it lasts all summer. Contrary to what you might expect, Sure Step is actually very slippery - but, only to light weights like dirt and pollutants! They can't stick. However, when you step on the surface, your weight creates pressure and the polymer reacts and adapts to give you grip. When the weight is removed, the polymer immediately adapts again to the lighter pressure and reacts by making the surface slippery once more so dirt won't stick. Brilliant!
When the decks are wet, the traction increases even more, and the new Environment Friendly Nano UV Protection extends the life up to eight months. There is no run off to stain and streak the polish on your hull and no hazardous chemicals or cleaners to rinse into the lake. Now, you, too, can have a shiny, new-looking deck that will make your boat the envy of the marina. It will add thousands of dollars in value if you want to trade or sell your boat, and cleaning consists of rinsing with a hose. Footprints easily wipe away, bird poo rinses off, and no more skinned shins when trying to board a wet swim platform.
Aurora has a value-priced Sure Step Deck Protect Kit which includes everything you need to clean and restore your deck and then protect and buff it to a beautiful shine.
So, who else wants a maintenance free boat?
For more information and to watch the “How To" video, visit www.auroramarine.com/SST or call 1-866-214-3444.
This article first appeared in the Launch Issue (May/Jun) 2018 of Great Lakes Scuttlebutt magazine.
tags: Polishes & Waxes
