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Wayfarer progress

Painting boats has for me, with a reputation as a marine artist  always come in more than one style, shape, form.

Today I was really painting a boat, the final gloss coat was applied to the hull. Wayfarer_15.09.12_IMG_4502_wp.JPG

The colour is not quite what I wanted due to lack of materials.

Despite that I find the progress very encouraging.

The long very hard slog of renovating the boat has passed the watershed of taking off and repairing the neglect cause by previous owners and is now getting easier, more exciting as jobs are completed on the down slope to seaworthiness.

Fortunately because the original materials were of such a high standard the new work is likely to last another 10 or 20 years at least.

I was hoping for the same colour I blended 33 years ago when I built this Wayfarer.

When last in Plymouth I could only buy what Yacht Parts had in stock, 2 litres of ‘Fighting Lady Yellow’ and one of white.

I’ve found International paints 2 pack polyurethane marine paint being impossible to buy around the Midi Pyrenees.

Curiously the result and quite accidently because I was aiming for a ‘primrose yellow’, was a bright ‘buttermilk yellow’ which is about the same colour Peter Goodwin and I discovered while researching the true colour used by Horatio Nelson on his ships and copied by his captains before Trafalgar.

You an discover that story on page:

Nelson’s Bright Yellow