..one eats no "hams", she's Muslim, so no bacon, and four "regulars". Four teenagers who can really pack away pasta. Talk about draining, no pun intended. Hard to beat ground bison and artichoke hearts in the mix.

Thanks to Maine Sail for a clear head and a stout heart. I faded out on the "micro". Always said I was soooo easily distracted. Oddly enough, I've never seen a microcrack. :D That's a joke...

I have seen an awful lot of poor gelcoat on an awful lot of boats and in one near forty year old boat I owned with, I'd bet, zero protection for the gelcoat in all those years, bits the size of match heads popping off in selected areas. I do not recall much if any of those bits being in areas of the non skid, all of them in the smooth both on the flat and in corners. That said, all the gelcoat was tired and worn but the smooth or the nonskid seemed none different.

I usta have photos of that but have been dumping them out lately to clear out my life, so to speak. I'm awaiting my last boat, the one that I'll run to the end of my boating time. Sounds a bit dreadful but I've owned sometimes a different boat each year, often every two or three years save for Passage which I launched. Even then I had not the sense to keep it after ten years when it was just getting broke in. I've refurbed them all to some extent, and suddenly have had an epiphany that the folks who keep the same boat for years and ACTUALLY use it instead of just making it nice for the next guy....are right. No mas. Like a one woman man (which I am), I'm a one boat man from now on. 2010...THIS year I make the Perry Rendezvous in Ludlow, this year I show at the P.T. Wooden Boat Festival and mebbe the Depoe Bay one, too. But I digress..........

I guess I'd like to see some sources for this information pertaining to the gelcoat in non skid being worse for the micro cracks than the other as I said earlier. Not intuitive but reports. If there's something to be learned about that non skid issue I'd like to learn it. Hell, I don't just like to argue with RichH though I have a time or two.