simulating a teak deck

[sailorman29tx]

After this sailing season I will be completelty restoring my boat. It's my first sailboat, this will be my first summer with it, which has always been a dream of mine, and I am extremely new to all of this. It's a Santana 21 and fits my family and Cedar Creek Lake perfectly. The guy that had it before me has already done the fiberglass repair and it has been set up for racing. We did laps around some larger boats when he owned it with just the main and working jib.
Any way, after when I get ready to paint the deck, instead of going back like original I had an idea. I love to look, and dream, about the expensive yachts with their teak decks, (Oh come to me Oyster 70) and would like to replicate it in a non skid paint.
I thought if i laid a base coat of a darker brown, taped off lines for the planking with pinstripe tape, and then brushed or rolled on some non skid paint in a teak color, I could pull the tape up and wahlah! From even a small :-/distance a nice teak deck on my little boat and it should offer more non skid surface than what I have now.
I wasn't able to find anything on the net about doing this and I'm sure someone has thought of this before. Any ideas, suggestions, or websites that show this being done?

[David Luckenbach]

That would look cool, but in Texas that would be HOT. Anything other than white will be too hot for bare skin on a sunny summer day.
David

[sailorman29tx]

It has the medium-dark blue non-skid now. I figured anything would be an improvement over that, but I didn't think about that at all to be honest with you.

[sailorman29tx]

By the wayDavid, even though I just registered with the site today, I have been on it almost daily for the past year. I've watched every video you've posted and looked at every boat in the gallery and classifieds. I love it and it has been a great source of info and stress release on the days I wasn't able to get the boat out or was stuck at the desk at work.

[David Luckenbach]

Glad you like the site. We hope to do many more videos this year, that rock deck is taking all my time.
David