SeaDek Color not desirable.

Flytrade

Flytrade

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Feb 20, 2018
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Bradenton, FL
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2006 320 Sundancer
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Twin 6.2L Mercruiser
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I had this above SeaDek installed on my boat a couple weeks ago, and although I like the deck itself, I would not recommend this light a color. Now it looks very dirty and needs cleaning. If I had to do it over again I would pick a darker, wood color. Just my thoughts.
 
That looks spectacular but I hear you on the upkeep. Though pick a dark color and this would have been your post - “installed this dark brown sea dek, and although it looks good and is easy to clean, it is hot underfoot on sunny days”....
There is a trade off.
 
It looks great. People who join you on your boat will see the beauty and not anything else.
 
I've got light gray on my swim platform. It does dirty a bit but cleaning is quite easy. A light scrub with your boat brush and some soap make easy work of everything but fuel spill stains...
 
paulswagelock said:
That looks spectacular but I hear you on the upkeep. Though pick a dark color and this would have been your post - “installed this dark brown sea dek, and although it looks good and is easy to clean, it is hot underfoot on sunny days”....
There is a trade off.
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WOW - I did not think it would get hot. Maybe the need to clean is a good trade off.
 
I installed the same color but I used Aqua Marine Deck and I would recommend it all day. AMD uses different components than SeaDek so it stays a lot cooler in the sun. I was next to a boat with SD and had same color a few weeks ago. It was so hot I couldn’t stand on it. My wife would make me rip it off if it got that hot.

Of course it gets dirty, it’s a boat but it’s super easy to clean. I use the white bristle brush and that’ll get most of it pretty clean. There may be a few small spots that need a little more love but it’s not too bad at all to keep clean. Looks new after it’s clean. No complaints so far.

I made the template and I installed.

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That color is actually a little darker than mine, and is what I would prefer. Nice job with the templates and install. I couldn't do it.
 
My friends have light gray SeaDek and it gets really hot! They wear flip flops a lot. At 3 years old, it also has stained and is very difficult to get clean. The staining is from the lake water.

MM
 
Thats funny, I'm normally not a fan of seadeck but when you posted that exact pic in an earlier thread I saved it b/c I thought if I ever did use it that is what I would get. In fla it gets way too hot IMO to use anything darker. I still think it looks great, and even after your warning I would still probably use it if I ever decided on seadeck.......
 
I feel a lot better about this since reading your posts. I'll let you know in the future how it is after cleaning a few times. I do have to admit that it is not hot at all - I go bare foot all the time.
 
Flytrade said:
I had this above SeaDek installed on my boat a couple weeks ago, and although I like the deck itself, I would not recommend this light a color. Now it looks very dirty and needs cleaning. If I had to do it over again I would pick a darker, wood color. Just my thoughts.
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You are in Bradenton, as am I. A dark color will get unbearably hot here in the summer. Mine is light Grey with White. I use a Harbor Freight pressure washer with a wide blade stream about as wide as the plank. I use only water, and I am under the West bound flight path of SRQ
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. I can clean my entire cockpit and platform in about 10 minutes. It's a year old now and looks brand new every time I clean it. For initial heavy traffic like loading and unloading, I lay down a runner of towels. That keeps us from having a track of footprints before getting underway.
 
370Dancer said:
You are in Bradenton, as am I. A dark color will get unbearably hot here in the summer. Mine is light Grey with White. I use a Harbor Freight pressure washer with a wide blade stream about as wide as the plank. I use only water, and I am under the West bound flight path of SRQView attachment 74387 View attachment 74388 View attachment 74389 View attachment 74390 View attachment 74391 . I can clean my entire cockpit and platform in about 10 minutes. It's a year old now and looks brand new every time I clean it. For initial heavy traffic like loading and unloading, I lay down a runner of towels. That keeps us from having a track of footprints before getting underway.
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My friends is similar to yours but is much closer to the water so it gets harbor water wash over when coming into the slip.

MM
 
370Dancer said:
You are in Bradenton, as am I. A dark color will get unbearably hot here in the summer. Mine is light Grey with White. I use a Harbor Freight pressure washer with a wide blade stream about as wide as the plank. I use only water, and I am under the West bound flight path of SRQView attachment 74387 View attachment 74388 View attachment 74389 View attachment 74390 View attachment 74391 . I can clean my entire cockpit and platform in about 10 minutes. It's a year old now and looks brand new every time I clean it. For initial heavy traffic like loading and unloading, I lay down a runner of towels. That keeps us from having a track of footprints before getting underway.
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379 Dancer,

Is yours Sea Deck or AMD? Looks beautiful, and sounds like a breeze to keep clean!
 
It's an Ebay special. There are some isms with it. There are some color variations from roll to roll, there is no "edging" to speak of like a laser cut can give you, the glue that is used to hold the 2 sheets together can leech at the edges giving us a yellow stripe. However, that entire cockpit and top platform cost me 200 bucks, and I have enough to redo it again when needed. The material is not that different from SeaDek's. It took a LOT of patience and time to get the templates right and have the planks all go in the same direction. Things will get dropped and ding it, and someday we will get a stain that won't come out. I deal with SeaDek on my son's Yamaha and Nautique wake board and surf boats. A 2014 install is crumbling now, and the other is brand new, at 3 grand plus. His money, not mine. I'll replace the crumbling black one with this material and not look back. Have a cocktail, stand 10 feet away, and it's AWSOME!
 
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