Finally got around to painting the cockpit floor

Since the boat's cockpit doubled as a workshop, the floor took a pounding.  Well, I finally broke down and spent the time and energy yesterday to sand and paint it.  I used the Interlux Interdeck nonskid paint.  I ended up using the beige on the boat many years ago and it's worked pretty well.  I went with as light a color as I could, just short of white.  The previous owner painted it gray over baby blue with horrible prep work, so it was peeling.  I fixed this right away by using this bottom paint solvent stripper that was supposed to work on the bottom and didn't.  I tried to get out of spending three days grinding off the old bottom paint, but nope, did it anyway.  So, with this fancy stripper, I painted and stripped the upper deck and painted it with the Interdeck back in 2004 and then wanted to spruce it up after changing some deck hardware which required some repainting, so I repainted the whole thing again several years later.  They changed the color scheme for the paint somewhere in the middle of that time frame, so It's actually slightly darker now, darn it.  I wanted it to be as light as possible so as to reduce the amount of heat it generates below, and not blister your bare feet too.  It's amazing how things heat up in the Florida sun.

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