The slipperyness of painted decks is seldom mentioned, but indeed a serious problem on a ship. Now adays we have non-slip paint. Not sure when that caught on, but was relatively recently- I am guessing with advent of iron and steel ships/boats.
Sounds very reasonable. Wooden decks trod with horn-hard calloused feet only needed a bit of sand of added traction.
Sheet iron, steel, decks are not very compatible with bare feet. And adding sand just added another level of material to skid upon, since the sand could not “dig into” the metal deck. Which was reason to cover that deck in wood or linoleum or the like.
Non-skid paint making it possible to skip the overhead/expense of covering an entire deck.
And going to sea will make a person pragmatic.
Marcus
The sail that is next to the MWF is the Portuguese Frigate D. Fernando II e Glória
If you want to see is in my post of 6/22/2011 or /forums/t/138873.aspx
For those who do not know, I usually add some components and change a few colors to my taste that I build in kits
A.Alexandre
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The writing theses are some theoretical and practical matter for purists
But I like to modify and add some in a creative components and change some colors to my taste
A.Alexandre