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A few tips on non-skid maintenance:
1. Keep it clean, decks needed to be cleaned every
day.
If the dirt, grime, soot, and oil don't have time to soak
in and dry they don't become a stain and wash off with little
difficulty. Become lax, even a few times, and the stains build
up and eventually become nearly impossible to remedy.
2. Never ever, not once, never, nope, uh uh, DO NOT
(do I have your attention yet?) wear street shoes on a non-skid
deck. Now I can hear you out there saying, "Not me, I
always wear Topsiders on my boat." Congratulations! Where
else do you wear those Topsiders?
Now I know that 9 out of 10 of you are saying things like,
in the car, into the store, just from the house, well I did
stop and get gas, and breakfast, and I had to pick up that
new antenna, and bait, and . . . OK, we get the picture.
I suppose a better way to say it would be only wear boat
shoes on the boat. I take off my street shoes (which are Topsiders,
by the way) as I get on a boat and either put on my "boat
shoes" or go barefoot, if I am about to wash the boat.
If you follow Tip 2 faithfully and see to it that all of
your passengers/guests do likewise (keep a few pair of cheap
white soled sneakers onboard for unknowing souls - read landlubbers)
you will be amazed at how easy it will be to follow Tip 1.
Without the "stuff" which is tracked in from the
street your boat and deck cleaning at the end of the voyage
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