Artemisia's maiden voyage - first stop Saturday night in Antibes

[jfm]

Gotta say, Guilty's tender is very disappointing

 

[newWave]

Surely, one of the points of having a wrap is to appeal to your own tastes. Then, once you decide to either sell or have a change of heart about the colour or design you can remove the wrap. If you wanted a Princess V72 with flames licking up the side (like some cigarettes) you can, and then remove them when it's time to sell you return the unblemished hull colour to anodyne white.

Not exactly true, there will always be colour differences between the bare hull and where the wrap has been.
Especially the ingrained dirt line on the edge of the wrap is a pain to clean (best example is a van where the lettering has been removed).

But then again my experience with vynil is over 20 years old so the cleaning process might be far easier by now.

 

[Hardmy]

Gotta say, Guilty's tender is very disappointing

To be fair, this shouldn't be their main tender. They used this one to untie both landlines from the rocks and were able to pull it quickly on board by hand with only two crew (if I remember well). But would they have send a crew to swim, they'd done it much faster and its a pleasant cooling off

 

[lionelz]

I met this floating object on Antipaxos last year...

What have Rizzardi let themselves in for?

I think I have just been sick. What on earth were they thinking

 

[MapisM]

What have Rizzardi let themselves in for?

That's precisely what I thought the first time I've seen that vessel.
Step aboard one of their fine "normal" boats, and you couldn't believe that they built this thing.
Then again, "pecunia non olet" is what they were probably thinking...

 

[davids0865]

Not exactly true, there will always be colour differences between the bare hull and where the wrap has been.
Especially the ingrained dirt line on the edge of the wrap is a pain to clean (best example is a van where the lettering has been removed).

But then again my experience with vynil is over 20 years old so the cleaning process might be far easier by now.

That dirt line is as a result of material shrinkage leaving behind a small line of adhesive to attract dirt. Those films are calandered ( rolled out ) and shrink as the material "memory" tries to return to the original state, the best materials are cast and do not shrink, so no shrinkage line.

 

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It's meant to be an "Artistic Statement" ...

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