So many silver cars...why so few silver yachts?

[Greenheart]

(I invite readers to note that I began the title with the word "So", correctly, unlike the mindless many who cannot commence any comment or reply without it...I predict some examples in the responses below... )

I don't think much of silver (or the even more drab grey) as a car-paint colour, but since it accounts for six million UK cars, why is it such a rare choice for yacht topsides?

Is it a question of choice, or a technical matter of the difficulty of emulsifying silvery particles in marine paint?

 

[James_Calvert]

We expect a car to look like a tin can.

But not a boat...

Plenty of exceptions of course...

 

[pvb]

Ovnis usually have a silvery colour.

 

[Daydream believer]

White vans???
Quite a few of those about

 

[UK-WOOZY]

is it because cars are metallic anyway, and gelcoat is naturally white?

 

[pvb]

is it because cars are metallic anyway, and gelcoat is naturally white?

Surely gelcoat is naturally clear?

 

[Seashoreman]

So, not keen on grey? I just bought a grey Nissan Qashqai totally on purpose. Mainly because many of their car colours are hideous ( in my opinion ), also travelling the rural outbacks grey tends to hide the dust and dirt. Last car was black, always difficult to keep smart. White is also a no-no for me. So, grey it is!!!

 

[shan]

So, not keen on grey? I just bought a grey Nissan Qashqai totally on purpose. Mainly because many of their car colours are hideous ( in my opinion ), also travelling the rural outbacks grey tends to hide the dust and dirt. Last car was black, always difficult to keep smart. White is also a no-no for me. So, grey it is!!!

+1 Hides the dirt from the lanes.

 

[Greenheart]

Is there anything (other than the owner's taste) that prevents a steel yacht being chromium-plated?

 

[anoccasionalyachtsman]

(I invite readers to note that I began the title with the word "So", correctly, unlike the mindless many who cannot commence any comment or reply without it...I predict some examples in the responses below... )

I don't think much of silver (or the even more drab grey) as a car-paint colour, but since it accounts for six million UK cars, why is it such a rare choice for yacht topsides?

Is it a question of choice, or a technical matter of the difficulty of emulsifying silvery particles in marine paint?

Thinking of repainting the Osprey then Dan?

 

[pvb]

Is there anything (other than the owner's taste) that prevents a steel yacht being chromium-plated?

It would need rather a large bath to dip it in to...

 

[ryanroberts]

There's a stainless steel narrowboat around, never seen it personally.

 

[Greenheart]

Thinking of repainting the Osprey then Dan?

Imagine. Maybe a 0.25mm polished stainless skin? Or just aluminium tin-foil.

 

[pvb]

Imagine. Maybe a 0.25mm polished stainless skin? Or just aluminium tin-foil.

Or get it vinyl-wrapped, there's a chrome version.

 

[Greenheart]

Really? That sounds fun. Hard to believe we haven't seen lots of more-money-than-taste types doing exactly that.

 

[pvb]

Really? That sounds fun. Hard to believe we haven't seen lots of more-money-than-taste types doing exactly that.

Here's a chrome-wrapped Porsche...

 

[Resolution]

Here's a chrome-wrapped Porsche...

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I don't think it will float very well.

 

[pvb]

I don't think it will float very well.

This one would...

 

[Greenheart]

Am I alone in being surprised that we haven't seen a chrome-wrapped Sunseeker, or even one of those enormous racing sailboats?

EDIT...jeez, wish I'd posted that 60 seconds earlier.

 

[pvb]

EDIT...jeez, wish I'd posted that 60 seconds earlier.