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From: "Jesse Deupree" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: color vs white, and paint vs gelcoat
...
> As I recall it, he said "the only two colors for a boat are white and
> black, and only a fool paints a boat black".
...
Reminds me of a great humor piece in Yacht Racing in the 70's about the SORC
called, "The Year Of The Black Deck". Seems one of the hotshot sailors
ordered a new boat with a black hull and a white deck; when it came, it had
a white hull and a black deck. But the delivery was shortly before the
racing season started, and they barely had time to commission the boat, so
they accepted it as is. Of course, it was miserably hot inside and the deck
was painful to walk on. But they won their race in spite of it.
Next race, another boat had painted their deck black. First boat won again.
And again. Next race, a few more black decks appeared. Articles were
published in the sailing press about the "collateral end-plate effect" of
thermals rising from the deck. Whole industries sprung up to make special
insulation for the black-decked boats. But the end of the season, the whole
fleet had gone over to black decks.
The next year our hero shows up with another new boat. This one has a black
hull and a white deck.
Cheers,
Tom Speer
F-24 MkI Ama Deus
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.tspeer.com
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