{"id":9087,"date":"2018-08-06T09:41:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T14:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=9087"},"modified":"2018-08-06T09:41:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T14:41:35","slug":"painting-pandora-to-dazzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=9087","title":{"rendered":"Painting Pandora to dazzle."},"content":{"rendered":"

I have written lately about the of choosing a color for Pandora’s new paint job and it has turned out to be quite the process.<\/p>\n

Most owners and certainly builders, trying to keep it simple,\u00a0 just say “paint it white” and it seems that even that can be complicated.\u00a0 \u00a0White isn’t always white.\u00a0 Awlgrip has about 25 colors that can loosely be described as “white” and that doesn’t even get into the colors that stray into the greys and tans.<\/p>\n

White is so pervasive among boats that the line of Island Packet cruising boats and their distinctive tan (Or is it biscuit?) off-white always stand out in a harbor.<\/p>\n

So, here I am complicating things further painting Pandora grey.\u00a0 My biggest concern has been that if I go too light there would not be enough contrast with the cabin and deck and she’s look like a marshmallow and if too dark she’d look like a micro-battle ship.\u00a0 \u00a0One comment on my blog suggested “Bob, just pick a color that’s the same as bird poop”.\u00a0 Thanks Mary-Marie, that helps a lot.<\/p>\n

The yard, Cooley Marine in Stratford CT<\/a>, that’s handling the refit was recommended by one of the managers at the yard where I normally haul Pandora each year for work.\u00a0 \u00a0 The owner, Andrew Cooley has been very helpful in assisting me with color selection and somehow took a photo of Pandora and overlaid various color options which I chronicled in nauseating detail, in case you missed it, in this post<\/a>.\u00a0 He has two facilities, one in Stratford CT at the Brewer’s yard and another in Stamford at the Hinkley yard.\u00a0 I understand that Hinkley has a terrific paint shed but the yard fees were a bit too rich for my blood (There’s a reason that Hinkley describes their boats as having “million dollar paint jobs”) so we settled on the Stratford yard.\u00a0 Cooley has done some big as well as little jobs and handles complex refits as well as straight up paint work.<\/p>\n

Pandora’s job was a bit complicated because of a wooden rub rail that protects the hull.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it was never properly prepared when the boat was built and therefore it has had a habit of peeling badly over the years.\u00a0 Cooley has taken some special preparation steps that we hope will minimize the problem going forward but only time will tell.\u00a0 \u00a0This is me and Andrew checking out the “bad news” regarding the toe-rail before she was prepped for paint.\u00a0 Notice that his smile is bigger than mine?\u00a0 Just why is that, exactly?\"\"We settled on Alexseal<\/a> paint, as I have mentioned in past posts as it’s easier to repair and with all the distance I cover with Pandora, things do go “bump in the night” so repairs are inevitable.<\/p>\n

“So, Bob, Bob, what color are you going to paint Pandora.\u00a0 You’ve been torturing us for weeks on this already.\u00a0 JUST DECIDE!”<\/p>\n

Ok, you win.\u00a0 We chose “Light Grey”<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0A color, and to paraphrase the fairy tale
\nThe Princess and the Pea, that we hope isn’t too light or two dark.<\/p>\n

This is what the mockup of Pandora is like with that color.\u00a0 However, I expect that it will look a bit darker, or will it be lighter, when it’s all done?\u00a0 Who knows.\"\"I visited her in the shop the other day after she was primed, a sort of, light grey.\u00a0 Yep, looks a little like a micro-battle ship.\u00a0\u00a0\"\"So, what will Light Grey really look like , really?\u00a0 I have only the vaguest idea when you come right down to it.<\/p>\n

Or, to put it another way, she may look a lot like this 18″ square piece of aluminium that the yard painted Light Grey.\u00a0 That, of course, would be if she was 18″ long and happened to have the woods, red flowers and hummingbird feeders as a backdrop.\u00a0 \u00a0\"\"Confused?\u00a0 Me too.\u00a0 But wait.\u00a0 When all is said and done, I expect that this whole “choose a color” exercise will be a bit like choosing perfume.\u00a0 After the first 3 or 4, they all start to smell the same anyway so just pick one and be done with it.<\/span><\/p>\n

One way or the other, it’s all about the execution and I am sure that she will look just smashing when she comes out of the shop.\u00a0 No wait, smashing?, not the best choice of words.\u00a0 \u00a0No, I am sure that she will look beautiful in her new colors.<\/p>\n

Before I break, here’s another idea.\u00a0 How about drawing inspiration from the Navy in WWI when the British artist Norman Wilkinson,<\/a> came up with the idea of painting ships with a mix of geometric patterns to make it more difficult for German U boats to get a good bearing and distance.\u00a0 \"\"\u00a0Besides, it’s a timely question as a nod to the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI this November, an artist, as reported in the NY Times, has painted the now retired NYC fireboat, the John J. Harvey in a modified “dazzle” paint job.\u00a0 \u00a0Actually, it’s a very interesting article.\u00a0 Check it out here.\u00a0<\/a>\"\"Oh, never mind.\u00a0 I’ll just stick with grey.\u00a0 Whatever the color,\u00a0I am sure that she will come out of the shed in a few weeks, ready to dazzle.<\/p>\n

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