Ben Jameson wrote: > On 2 Sep 2009, at 09:28, Ben Jameson wrote: > >> >> 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). > > 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.
"This inland cruising thingy, obviously has a great future" said Mr. Cholmondley-Warner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ivsb79-h90 -- Neil Arlidge NB Earnest / Barge Maurice A (in the pipeline again) TNC...Gorn west... http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/tour.html
