Interior refresh. What to use?

[fretz]

A few years back we painted the Hull with awlgrip. It was a DIY job and I'm impressed with how well it came out. At the time i left the original gel-coat on the deck and interior because i had some issues under the floor that needed to be addressed.

With that finished its time to do the interior. The boat spends about 5 months in the water in NJ. Kids, dogs, skis, anchors, coolers fishing gear etc... The boat is used as intended and its not pampered.

Would you recommend doing awlgrip on the deck and interior or a fresh coat of gel-coat? Floor will be a non skid additive or a separate product like tuffcoat.

The boat is inside for the winter. I can spray or roll and tip. I have a few previous projects under my belt and understand that 90% of the job is in the prep work. I'm aware that the gel-coat will require sanding and polishing after its applied where paint would not. Its hard to beat the longevity of the original gel-coat.

I must confess that i don't have a Seacraft. The boat is an 84 robalo 2020. I've been lurking on here for some time as the rebuilding forum is one of the more active ones I've seen. You all do great work! Many of the rebuild threads have inspired the work we have done so far. A Seacraft 20 is on the bucket list though.

Thanks!

[ricknewman]

I find the awlcraft to be easier to use than the awlgripand so far so good.