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[Saf]

Marshmat! You are very right about your point! Cheap fibre can be really bad! Saw a boat today badly damged by the UV! I've got a friend who works on a boat yard at the Isle of Wight he was telling me that although dark colours looks very nice people don't buy a second hand dark coloured boat as much as the ones who buy the white! That is wired!

[Mychael]

I like the idea of a lighter blue. My own boat is a red color and Yes it marks dreadfully. I stayed with Red as it was it's previous color and does look good.
I think shape dictates a lot how a color will look. I'd be game to try yellow on a shape the suited. (In a boat I mean, don't be clever. hahahah)

Mychael

[Saf]

The most wired coloured boat I've seen was a samll dinghy coloured with rainbow colours! I think it tells how happy the owner is!

[Joe6]

I painted my boat a couple of years ago in black LP. looks great virtually no difference in interior temprature.

It was tough to decide between red and black as I think they both look great.

Prep work, very important!

I think my next dink will be blue.

Joe

[Mychael]

I think the temperature issue is not so much inside the boat as in the structure itself. I know with foam/fibreglass aircraft structures we always stayed with white to avoid temperature effecting it's integrity.

Mychael

[Joe6]

Now that you mention it I remember a friend of mine telling me about this occuring in foam cores. Expansion of individual cells within the foam due to the heat. I would think that this expansion would be minimal and the laminate could tolerate it, but probably depends on the type of laminate.

Joe

[Mychael]

Plus a boat hull would not get a direct sun beating down on it as say the topside of an aircrafts wing does.

Mychael

[Poida]

Mychael, nobody could argue with that.

[Saf]

That means any plane which is coloured with any other colour than white has got alot of money coming from the company!

[safewalrus]

Originally Posted by Saf

I think you see white everywhere nowadays! The way you talked about it though is really good... yellow is another colour I wouldn't want to see my boat like that! Like some giant lemon floating in the sea, people would think your boat is some buoy and go round you

Seems a good reason for yellow! if the buggers don't want to run into you it's the best reason in the world! Plus keeps the heat out of the equation - only trouble is it attracts the flies when your painting it - had me this boat painted in summer, had bumps all over it (plenty of spare protein I guess)

[Poida]

THere's plenty of yellow boats in Queensland Saf, they're called banana boats.

[Saf]

Yellow would look nice on anyother thing but not a bot! Maybe a kayak would like nice in yellow but not a sail boat! I think it's matter of personal choise at the end of the day but i still don't want to have my boat in that colour!

[Bergalia]

Light colours every time. Give the rescue boys a chance when they coming looking for you in heavy seas....

[safewalrus]

but not white, eh Bergalia that looks like a wave top, especially in a 'chop'

[Bergalia]

Agreed Walrus, old sage...but how many 'yotties' go out in a chop...