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EASLOOP

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So just how much of a problem is having a dark blue hull on a carvel planked 28' sloop. She is berthed and used in the UK - but we do aniticpate a hot summer - not really sure whether to re-paint in a light colour?

Thanks in advance

John
 
I have dark blue on the cabin sides and white on the hull as per most Fairey motorboats, I can tell you that the daerk colour does suffer a great deal more than the white.


I'd go for the lighter option and use Epiphanes.
 
A big problem for me in the tropics of Clyde.
My mahogany carvel hulled 30 footer was painted dark green... close to BRG in fact.
Most of her south facing planks had separated.
Topsides are now Pearl white.
 
My 1953 mahogany BB11 from had many years ago was painted black with a white bottom & deck. With varnished brightwork she looked stunning. Big problem in July / Aug though when the topside planking dried & puckered a bit. Ok from September on though. (it seemed to rain a lot more back then too).
Advice - paint a light colour.
 
Huge!

Mirelle was black when new and black she stayed until I bought her.

When I stuck a putty knife right into a seam and pulled out what looked like potting compost where the caulking ought to go I consulted Frank Knights and took his advice - recaulked all round and changed colour. Initially I tried grey - better - then Blakes "Biscay" - better still, and finally Epifanes no26 (a "pearl white") AND THE SEAMS DON'T OPEN ANY MORE!!! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif RESULT!!! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

The planking is carvel, pre-War Rangoon Teak, btw.

Another way of looking at it - our forebears, when they laid up a wooden merchant sailing ship, used to whitewash the topsides!

There's a quite well known photo of the trading schooner BERNARD BARTON, laid up in tropical Victorian Woodbridge, so treated.
 
Re: Huge!

SOLD!
Pearl white it is - there's ought better 'n experience. I tried to re-call my high school physics concerning refraction/reflection/absorption but this only addressed white light etc. I had wondered if the same rules applied to incident heat. I guess it doesn't matter what the rules are, if heat opens seams then light colours must be favourite.

Thanks to all who took the time to anser my query.

John
 
Re: Huge!

Another way of looking at it - our forebears, when they laid up a wooden merchant sailing ship, used to whitewash the topsides!

Now thats a very good idea!!!How do you get dried whitewash off though??Or was whitewash then different to now? would it be possiable to see how she looked in mat black?? Then just wait for the rain to get back to white??

Ages ago when i was first in the med when i antifouled in April i painted the topsides white, Then in october i would repaint but dark green which looked super!

Now im thinking of white for the med and again dark green for the baltic?Or just leave her white!!!Getting lazy.
 
Re: Huge!

i painted my topsides black from white.we had a very hot april around 3 yrs ago.i miss timed a rapidly falling tide , had to lean her out from the wall. basically i awoke to a swamped yacht, water up to my knees etc etc.dried her out many times previous to this without problem.seams had opened out for the first time since i'd had her.white and bright for me every time.
beware !!
 
It\'s a pity, isn\'t it?

One of the good things about having a wooden boat is that one can so easily change her appearance by changing the topsides colour - but then we find, to misquote Henry Ford, that "You can have any colour you like - as long as it's white!"

My four year old son fancies bright pillar box red, and to be honest so does his father, if only for a single season, but red is apparently almost as bad as black or dark blue.

Pearl white it remains - which pleases his mother!
 
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