Black inflateable tenders

[Seastoke]

Will they Mark your white hull

 

[Laysula]

Mine doesn't. I have a 3D

 

[seumask]

Most tenders have a rubbing strip, usually part of thier design and designed to protect the tender and not mark! I have found that larger RIB's often have a heavy black Rubbing streaks which do mark your topsides!

 

[tjbrace]

My Ribcraft had black rubbing strips which marked my white hull badly. Had to use fenders all the time.

 

[V1701]

It might and I'd watch how hot it gets in the sun as well, it might burn your arse! And how much the pressure increases going from cold to hot, I wonder why they make them in black...

 

[Mistroma]

It might and I'd watch how hot it gets in the sun as well, it might burn your arse! And how much the pressure increases going from cold to hot, I wonder why they make them in black...

We were having a meal in Greece last year and spotted a black inflateable tied up beside our table. I did comment that it seemed like a very bad idea to have that colour in Greece. Our inflateable was about 10m further along with chaps stopping the UV turning it into chewing gum, not at all hot to sit on.

A guy arrived holding a black aluminium seat he'd obviously been keeping in the shade during lunch. He fitted the seat before his wife arrived and gingerly sat on the seat. He joined her, both had shoes but were still lifting their feet a fair bit and the odd ouch if a hand touched the dinghy. We struggled to keep straight faces as they left, as did the waiters.

Really bad idea having black in Greece. I'm pretty certain you could burn toast on a black aluminium floor, let alone fry an egg.

 

[johnalison]

Old black Avons would mark. Our '74 grey Redcrest was OK, with a yellow rubbing strake, until around 2000 when the black bosses for attaching the sprayhood started leaving marks, so, with our new boat we passed it on to a friend and bought new.

 

[Quandary]

Most synthetic rubbers and plastics are white, neoprene is white in the chemical plant, though you never see that, because before it is used, it has massive quantities of carbon dust milled in to it. Over time the base material degrades releasing more and more of the carbon. The younger the fabric is, the less carbon dust it releases, so the answer probably is that black fabrics are probably colour fast for several years before starting to transfer marks to surfaces they contact.

It is carbon dust that makes tyres, tubes , inflatable rubbing strakes and nearly everything else black.