Another reason for staying with a common colour for hull & deck is that PVC fabric comes in big widths. For the timber/folding construction method you can often get the hull & deck from 1x boat length of fabric.

: This may be a silly question but before I place an order I figured I'd ask.

: I'm building a Yost Sonnet and was going to go with relatively traditional
: colors you see on commercially-produced boats, a white hull with a single
: color deck. Looking at some of the previously made ones, however, you
: don't see white used much, if at all

: I imagine this is mostly based on personal preference and available
: materials, but is there any reason to not use white for a hull? I wanted
: to make sure there wasn't a practical reason white was avoided, such as
: scratches showing up black or something weird like that.

: Thanks!