Yes I've thought of EVA. If you however want to cover the deck like e.g. on the infusion, it gets quite expensive. If you would use a strip I wonder if it sticks?

The tape we have used before, and it cost me my wetsuit within half a year. So that would not be my first thought.

From one side we want a good solution, from the other side we so not want to spent too much money as we will probably go to an infusion anyway within the next 2 years.