Color to paint mast

[davidpm]

I'm planning on painting the inside of the sd white the outside blue and the trim varnished mahogany.

The mast is the two piece aluminum 1 piece fir as per plans.

I'm planning on using the lpu as per recommendations from this board for the boat.

What color for the mast, white or blue.

The boom, varnished mahogany or painted?

I suspect it is largely a builders choice issue but would appreciate comments from those who have gone before.

[Hirilonde]

My mast is white, my boom is varnished.

You might want to reconsider making your entire interior white.  I say this for 2 reasons.  One is that white is really bright on sunny days.  The other is that white is hard to keep clean looking, and the inside of a dinghy has the tendency to get dirty.  Light gray or beige on the bottom and seat tops would do wonders to reduce glare and disguise dirty.  Both would still go well with your color scheme.  I used a 2 color scheme interior.  I painted the entire interior then added the beige non-skid to masked off areas.

[davidpm]

Makes sense about the white interior. I'll probably go gray instead.

Nice pictures.

What are those little strips on the floor.?

What did you use for paint and non-skid? Where you happy with it?

[Hirilonde]

The strips are stiffeners.  The bottom section there is quite broad.  They are in the plans for the S9N.  They may not be needed in the one piece version as the interior bulkhead layout is very different.

I used Easypoxy for the green (green 50/50 with white) and Interdeck beige for the non-skid.

[davidpm]

That's odd. I donn't see the stiffeners on the 10N plans. Graham?