White is right,,,,?

Re: Cream Eh?

In the past, did paint manufacters have the technology to make a 'white/white?
I thought the reason so many old wooden boats had cream coloured hull was because that was the whitest white they could get.
Or am I misinformed?
Hi Ian--------------found you!

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When I finished the restoration of Janina, a Robert Clarke designed Yachting World 5 tonner, I painted her hull Norfolk Green, with a cream boot top and red antifouling. Her deckhouse was varnished with pale gray decks, with a new suit of tan sails on varnished spars she looked fantastic. There was a pickie of her hanging from a crane at her launch that appeared in Classic Boat under the 'real boats' section. Still think the colour was just right some 3 years on. Mike

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Re: Cornish clotted cream!

My brother had a similar problem with a vintage Alvis which he is restoring. He wanted to paint it dark green, but which paricular dark green? When he went to order the paint the company rep. showed him a wad of 200 colour samples, all of them dark green! He went through them, found a few that he liked the look of, but there was one which jumped out at him and screamed ME! ME! ME! In short, it has to please your eye, and if you look at enough colour patches you'll find one that you like. Don't forget too, that you can always blend paints if you think that the colour you would like is a bit lighter than that one but not as wishy-washy as this one.
Peter.

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