On 2 Sep 2009, at 09:28, Ben Jameson wrote:
>
> On 1 Sep 2009, at 19:43, Sean Neill wrote:
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>> 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).
Here's the film:
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=710
It's from 1957 and shows Water Rambler (ex-GUCCC "Star").
There's also a film featuring Water Nymph (ex-GUCCC "Southern Cross")
taken in 1959 at Little Venice, although no white hull in that case:
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=1212
Ben.
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