Narrowboat Family

Didn't realise Mucoff made a marine specific - i'm guessing it's a citrus based cleaner like their bike stuff. Thanks for the idea. What did you sand the sandy stuff with? I did consider sanding with the orbital da I already have, but thought the sanded finish would just eat sanding discs.

Not worried about loosing any non slip properties, the long term plan is to remove it altogether. I'm not a fan of it. The gloss isn't very glossy anymore. The non sanded bits I can prep for painting as the rest of the boat. I thought the sanded parts might be key enough by nature of the finish to paint straight on to?

We are currenrly repainting our 57' narrowboat. The roof is nearly completely covered in 'antislip', except for some masked strips, and the handrails. It looks like sand sprinkled onto, and painted over with some kind of gloss. As far as we know it was done around 6-7 years ago. A very good job must have been done as it still looks very good, and appears pretty much completely intact. Because of time and money, we are loath to strip it this year, the rest of the boat is our priority. We would like to clean it and paint over it, and try and get a couple more years out of it. My questions are, what undercoat / topcoat paint would people suggest - it is currently blue, we would like a light raddle red / red oxide? It would need to be pretty forgiving on the nonslip, but still gloss up nicely on the handrails. Also, any suggestions for an environmentally friendly cleaner to get rid of the dirt and bits where it's gone green?Ecover washing up liquid and a scrubbing brush has got rid of most of the dirt, but a few stubborn stains remain. Thank you for any suggestions.

Thanks for that lead Tim.

We are booked into Aylesbury Wet Dock in Aug 2017 to prep and paint our 57' 28yr old Nb. Looking for help with recommendations for an experienced, professional handy-boat-grafter, for paid work, who can help us with this project - especially the prep part. Work likely to include helping remove/replace portholes, vents and other fittings. Making good some pitted / rusted areas of steel work. Sanding, filling, priming, undercoating etc, and dealing with an anti slip roof. Who do you know? Many thanks.