On 1 Sep 2009, at 19:43, Sean Neill wrote: > If you look at pictures of old wooden sailing or motor yachts, they > are mostly white (white lead paint?) or varnished, working boats of > all types being tarred, and I assume the look has been carried over, > in the same way as narrowboat painting styles.
If I recall correctly BW painted some of the hulls of the Water Busses (ex-GUCCC carrying boats) white at one point, presumably to market them as pleasure craft (think there's a film on the Pathe site showing one of them on the Oxford canal). Ben. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
