Kate, hauled out in Kudat, Borneo, begins a major deck repair project. Heather Francis Having a few soft spots in the balsa-cored deck of your 50-plus-year-old sailboat is neither uncommon nor all ...

After 15 years, the non-slip paint on my boat deck looked faded and dirty. But I put off repainting until the non skid failed and I started slipping and sliding on the wet deck. While a freshly ...