Hi All, A couple of years ago or even more I saw on this forum a beautiful deep maroon kayak with very narrow white acent strips and being a copycat with no originality I wanted to build that kayak. I remember the builders comment that he built the deck then stained the whole boat, when it dried he used a hobby knife to scrape the white accent strips being thankful there was very few accent strips. Now being old and lazy I'm not looking foward to that kind of torture so my mind cranked out this dumb brainstorm,"cut the accent strips to your thickness my guess 10-12ft. long would suffice, then unroll aluminum foil slightly longer on a workbench or straight plank on saw horses and fold up the ends to make a tray then soak the accent strips for a couple days in a solution that is water proof(NO SILICONE) let dry several days then build the deck. I would then stain the whole boat and let dry, then sand and fair the hull. hopefully that would clean the accent strips to their original whiteness then finish the boat as normal". I would like all pro's and con's on this and you can be as brutal as you wish (being a married man I take criticism very well) because I don't want to start and then fall in a hole. Thanks a ton Nick R.