finally got a dinghy

[BlueSkyNick]

but.... it's green!

Having grumbled about e-bay a few weeks ago, I just bought an 8ft stem dinghy, with new thwart, good wooden oars, metal rollocks and a fresh coat of paint .... on Gumtree for £80. When we arrived near Wareham, the lovely chap took pity that we had driven an hour in the rain and refused to accept more than 70 quid!

On the way home, there was so much water on the road we thought we thought we would need to take it off the roof and use it!

Only trouble is he painted it green, dark on the outside, light on the inside.

My mother was very superstitious - no green car, carpet, clothes, nothing. I want to re-paint it anyway, so it is more visible in the dark.

I think I've got a pot of magnolia emulsion somewhere - will that do?

 

[Pete7]

Paint some of it with mat black, then no one will steal it and it will be easy to find in the dinghy park.

 

[Lakesailor]

I think I've got a pot of magnolia emulsion somewhere - will that do?

Are you thinking of renting it out?
That's what property developers do, isn't it?

If green is undesirable that will be ideal for stopping thieving scrotes.

Get some silver and red spray cans and have a Dali moment. That'll make it different.

 

[LadyInBed]

Method in his madness - green doesn't show the algae

 

[AMCD300]

For 70 quid you can't complain...well you can, but with the 10 pounds you saved you can buy a tin of something from B&Q to tone it down a bit

 

[snowleopard]

I like green and have painted several boats that colour. Our old gaffer was given dark green topsides and looked very classy. The current cat has green topside stripes, sail cover, awnings and dinghy.

When I had a Sonata I gave it a green sail cover but when I came to sell it the old buffer who finally bought it was horrified that it should be anything but blue which he considered the only 'correct' colour.

 

[AIDY]

greens very unlucky to take to sea in

 

[PhillM]

What a golden opportunity to keep alive your inner traditional boat maintenance skills.

Outside hull: give it a good sand back with 80 grit then a coat of very thinned primer to show dents and imperfections, then use a good filler and fare them out. Build a couple of layers of undercoat, sanding each layer down with 240 grit, then when the hull is perfect, three good coats of top coat.

Inside, strip back to bare wood and varnish. 6 coats should do it.

You will end up with the nicest tender in the dingy park. It will even add value to your boat. Buyers will wonder “if that is how well he maintains his tender, how great must his boat be!”

 

[emsworthy]

What a golden opportunity to keep alive your inner traditional boat maintenance skills.

Outside hull: give it a good sand back with 80 grit then a coat of very thinned primer to show dents and imperfections, then use a good filler and fare them out. Build a couple of layers of undercoat, sanding each layer down with 240 grit, then when the hull is perfect, three good coats of top coat.

Inside, strip back to bare wood and varnish. 6 coats should do it.

You will end up with the nicest tender in the dingy park. It will even add value to your boat. Buyers will wonder “if that is how well he maintains his tender, how great must his boat be!”

Or you could just go sailing in your well earnt time off!!

 

[DJE]

Our dinghy that, the kids used to sail and row around various anchorages, needed tarting up on the inside when we got it. So we painted it bright yellow with spars to match. Made it a lot easier to spot them when they went off exploring.

We were ripped off ours was £100!

 

[PeteCooper]

greens very unlucky to take to sea in

There's an awful lot of green fishing boats - do they know something different?

 

[Ludd]

There's an awful lot of green fishing boats - do they know something different?

In the sixties ,when I was at sea,there was a predominance of black-hulled boats in the NE of Scotland. Next most popular was green,with only westcoast herring ringnet boats varnished.
We had 2 green boats in succession,both of which were fished extremely successfully.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Good enough for the owl and the pussycat.