It has to be tinted for UV protection and that means you will enhance the color. Honeytone is the lightest in TWP.

@administrator Ahh ok, I wasn’t sure if splashing was going to be an issue or not. It’s Olympic Maximum(dark grey color).

It depends on the brand of stain and it is hard to not have it splash onto the railing, etc when stripping the floors.

replace those boards is your only option.

The only way to remove a solid stain fully is to sand it off. You could flip the boards as well.

Thank you very much for your help!

Not a fine grit, 60-80:

Ok. So using a fine grit paper, sand the whole deck and I will be back to square one where I can use a semi transparent stain on it? Then maybe I coul...

You cannot strip this off. The only way is to power sand it all off.

Post a picture.