Hi ya Chris, initially I thought the deck should be a deep, dark colour with a good covering of varnish but, on reflection and having Joe and yourself onboard, my thoughts are now changing. Plus, of course, the wooden decks on these boats would naturally fade to a sort of yellow / white.
My thanks to you both for your input and this will also help save me a bit of time.
I tried sanding the deck at first but I found that it was sort of dragging the stains into the wood grain so I switched to scraping with a Stanley knife blade. It is a bit tedious but gives a cleaner finish.
I just wonder if I've perhaps been using too rough a grit of sandpaper?
Still, I'm nearly finished now so I'll crack on with the scraping then give it a good clean up.
Regards,
Ray.