[Scott]

Hey Tom

Question for you ... Are you trying to wet sand the hull to get rid of oxidation??? or is this prep work for a new coating (gel coat paint etc) ... If your painting the hull I wouldn’t worry as the high build primers will fill in those voids......But It doesn’t sound like that’s the road your going down.

The deck ... load bearing or not... if the deck crazing/cracks are not properly fixed paint will only hide them till the deck sees stress again... I've been there and done that (due to running it, cold weather, walking on it and on and on )....even if you grind out those cracks and epoxy them over some of those stress fractures work their way through again. Grinding them out and laying new fiberglass cloth is what I have done…best would be to support from underneath….but that’s not always feasible