Colour Choice For Tender

[Lakesailor]

I'm just refurbing a little 8ft grp tender. The gunwhale was rotten and I've replaced it with some softwood (!)
Now the gel coat is tired but may clean up. The inside is an awful red colour and the new wood is pale.
I have some True Blue Brilliant Enamel (Hempel) I could do the hull in. I have some grey gloss, (or grey floorpaint, satin finish) I can do the insides in.
Do I try to stain and varnish the new wood or paint it, and if I paint it, what colour?

And do I paint the hull or just buff it up? Paint is easily scratched.

This is True Blue

 

[VicS]

I'm just refurbing a little 8ft grp tender

I want it!

Id be quite happy with it in the present colours.

 

[Seashoreman]

Painting Dinghy

I painted an old grp dinghy with Dulux a couple of years ago, it gets rough treatment including dragged about on a concrete slip, it only scrapes the bottom, so no big deal. Also painted interior with one coat of floor paint, still good. Varnished new sapele, 3 coats, that is still good. But people tend to leave their tenders looking scruffy in case of attracting thieves?

 

[claymore]

If she were mine, I would be inclined to make her instantly recognisable and at the same time, undesirable to the light fingered fraternity.
A browse through every pot of paint you have and then a few happy hours flicking random globules, spits and spots ought to do it.
I feel this would also better represent your artistic personality and demeanour.

 

[Lakesailor]

I feel this would also better represent your artistic personality and demeanour.

How do you paint something in a pedantic and anal way?

 

[rob2]

Wouldn't that give a dunn, pebble-dash finish?

Might as well try buffing the blue - you can paint it if that doesn't work. I'd be tempted to use Danboline for the inside and maybe Sadolin for the gunwhale.

Rob.

 

[Bav34]

Magnolia. The answer to all painting dilemmas.

 

[Stu Jackson]

Paint the inside white, and the thwarts red. Then you'd have red, white & blue!

 

[catalac08]

Trouble with painted tenders is that they can transfer paint marks onto a hull if rubbing against a hull when tied up. Depending on tender usage it may be better to just polish up the tender or paint the tender the same colour as boat it may be attached to!

 

[Ripster]

Hull very bright yellow and topsides all bright orange. Thwarts can have black stripes. That way no one will nick it and you will stand out and be seen from all angles. You can't be too safe.... or can you?

 

[LONG_KEELER]

As mentioned, I found a security perspective worked for me . Even the oars, painted bright yellow, and often borrowed without permission, still survive.

However, you mentioned certain colours and a quick look on the net provides the sexual consequences that you will have to take on board :-


BLUE:
Lovers of blue are wonderful sex partners. They are affectionate and sensitive to their partner's needs. They consider love making a fine art and their approach is elegant. Men who love blue are like concert pianists, delicately ravaging their partner like they would play a baby grand. Women in the blue category enjoy sex to the fullest. They are exciting partners but their passion may be compared to a tidal wave rather than firery aggression. Both women and men enjoy foreplay and the aftermath of lovemaking, as much as the sex act itself. In marriage a blue person is a wonderful mate -- never seeking outside interests.

RED:

People who like red tend to be tigers in the sack. They are easily aroused and enjoy sex in every way imaginable. Once the sexual spark is ignited, it may take hours to extinguish. When two reds get together, the ensuing erotica could make Lady Chatterly blush. Lovers of red tend to be aggressors and weaker colors should be aware.

 

[Ex-SolentBoy]

I would paint the inside cream, polish the outside and fit one of those big thick ropes all the way round that act as a permanent fender.

 

[Lakesailor]

Perhaps you have missed the point.

I already have paint in True Blue, Buckingham Green, Grey (light and dark) White, varnish and stains.

There will be no buying going on.

I also have white "D" section rubber fendering, but I'll be buggered if I'm going to the trouble of fitting that.

I will probably be looking to flog it, so the Jackson Pollack approach may not be the most sensible.

 

[PeteCooper]

How do you paint something in an anal way?

Brown?

 

[Ex-SolentBoy]

Perhaps you have missed the point.

I already have paint in True Blue, Buckingham Green, Grey (light and dark) White, varnish and stains.

There will be no buying going on.

I also have white "D" section rubber fendering, but I'll be buggered if I'm going to the trouble of fitting that.

I will probably be looking to flog it, so the Jackson Pollack approach may not be the most sensible.

if you are going to flog it why dont you leave it alone? Perhaps the next owner will not like your workmanship or colour choice and a bit of paint is hardly going to enhance its value.

 

[Seajet]

if you are going to flog it why dont you leave it alone? Perhaps the next owner will not like your workmanship or colour choice and a bit of paint is hardly going to enhance its value.

I'd tend to agree, though the D section fendering would be a good idea for a tender.

Around here she'd fetch a handy sum.

 

[lw395]

I agree with not painting the gunwhales, unless you are going to add lots of fendering, the slightest knock will mark hulls, where varnish or bare wood won't leave a mark.
If you are going to sell it, a quick coat of whatever's on hand is worthwhile. I would go for neutral grey inside, with some sand on the floor except at the lowest point where you bail out.
The blue will look good ashore, but white is easier to see on the mooring from a distance. I once had a two tone blue tender, when I approached the mooring from the harbour entrance, I kept thinking it had been stolen, as it was harder to spot than the white ones. (Breaking up the outline with a two-tone scheme is of course the first law of camouflage.)

 

[Bobobolinsky]

If I was going to flog it, I would just oil the white wood and buff the hull. In such a case time is more expensive than left over paint

 

[Achillesheel]

BLUE:
Lovers of blue are wonderful sex partners. They are affectionate and sensitive to their partner's needs. They consider love making a fine art and their approach is elegant. Men who love blue are like concert pianists, delicately ravaging their partner like they would play a baby grand. Women in the blue category enjoy sex to the fullest. They are exciting partners but their passion may be compared to a tidal wave rather than firery aggression. Both women and men enjoy foreplay and the aftermath of lovemaking, as much as the sex act itself. In marriage a blue person is a wonderful mate -- never seeking outside interests.


..As the owner of a boat called Blue, I agree wholeheartedly with the above.

 

[Greenheart]

As mentioned, I found a security perspective worked for me . Even the oars, painted bright yellow, and often borrowed without permission, still survive.

However, you mentioned certain colours and a quick look on the net provides the sexual consequences that you will have to take on board :-


BLUE:
Lovers of blue are affectionate and sensitive to their partner's needs. They consider delicately ravaging their partner like they would play a baby grand...in marriage a blue person is a wonderful mate -- never seeking outside interests.

RED:

People who like red tend to be tigers in the sack...make Lady Chatterly blush. Lovers of red tend to be aggressors and weaker colors should be aware.

Where did you unearth such absolute moronic twaddle? Is it meant to be funny? It's as superficially-grounded as foul old racist stereotyping. I'm not pointing that at Long Keeler, but however do the authors of such transparent nonsense expect to be received?

Why not stick to white, for the tender? With a plain varnished floor grating. Good taste is so rare today, it'll be too conspicuous to attract thieves! Well worth engraving the yacht's name on the transom.

As said recently elsewhere, rigging the tender with a sail seems to deter predatory interest - less appealing than the o/b-powered craft which these creatures incline towards, presumably for swift getaways...