jit50 Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Can someone give me a good argument for or against painting my hull BLACK? I've heard arguments both ways. In other words, is there a good reason to avoid dark hull colors? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DISTELTK Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Black or very dark on the deck or any surface that the sun gets too Will ger $%@# ful HOT. I tried it on an old boat and scrapped it off after a short ride(darkBlue) tom d Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jit50 Posted March 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 I'm only interested in the hull, not the deck or cockpit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hokeyhydro Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Reason #1 - black gets HOT. Possibly hot enough to soften epoxy undercoat. Reason #2 - Unless you prefer stealth mode (drug running or the like) black is hard to see at night or in waning light. *crash* Reason #3 - black is a PITA to keep clean looking. Reason #4 - If your hull is not absolutely, positively 100% perfectly faired every single wookie will show with black paint. Like Tom in the above post I painted parts of my runabout black when I was a dumb kid (12 years old). The paint blistered which made scraping it off short work since prior to paint blistering it had blistered my butt when I sat on a black painted part. Man up and paint it pink . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jit50 Posted March 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 I wonder how Graham's CS-17, "Green Heron", has fared? Perhaps that wasn't a dark enough green to cause the problems you have listed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Frechette Jr Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 "There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black." -Nathanael G. Herreshoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Jones Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 My Trimaran, Traveler, is a very dark green, as are my two Birder Kayaks. So far they haven't done badly- BUT- as Hokeyhydro points out in his point #4- that hull better be flawless. Personally I like matte or semi gloss white for hulls. But then I'm an old guy and hulls were done like that as I was growing up-grin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hirilonde Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 Personally I like matte or semi gloss white for hulls. But then I'm an old guy and hulls were done like that as I was growing up-grin Me too, and for pretty much the same reason, though I am not as old as Charlie hokyhydero's list contains 4 good reasons. I like white hulls, accent(s) of your favorite darkish color and lots of bright work. This will never go out of style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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