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Re: Seeking: images of wooden kayaks with painted
By:Etienne Muller
Date: 11/2/2009, 1:50 pm
In Response To: Seeking: images of wooden kayaks with painted hulls (Craig Robinson)

Hi Craig

Just a thought. Dark colours absorb heat. If you leave the hull in the sun for long periods heat builds up in the timber beneath and blisters are more likely to form in the paintwork than they will with lighter sun-reflecting pigments.

Black alway looks real cool, on a guitar, a car or a boat; it is also a very slimming colour and will make a fat boat appear slimmer and thus faster.

Of course, in Ireland all this is moot, as we don't get sun and we can use whatever colour we like, but if you live in sunny climes black is perhaps not the most practical.

With that in mind I would recommend silver.

Etienne

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Seeking: images of wooden kayaks with painted hulls
Craig Robinson -- 11/1/2009, 7:37 pm
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Dan Caouette (CFSW) -- 11/6/2009, 8:05 am
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Steve Rasmussen -- 11/2/2009, 10:12 pm
Re: Seeking: images of wooden kayaks with painted *LINK* *Pic*
Don Goss -- 11/2/2009, 8:19 pm
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Craig Robinson -- 11/2/2009, 9:08 pm
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Scott Fitzgerrell -- 11/2/2009, 7:06 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 11/2/2009, 1:50 pm
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brian scarborough -- 11/2/2009, 9:50 am
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Wesley Ewell -- 11/2/2009, 8:49 am
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Wesley Ewell -- 11/2/2009, 9:07 am
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paddledan -- 11/2/2009, 4:07 am
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paddledan -- 11/2/2009, 4:13 am
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kelly t -- 11/2/2009, 3:09 pm
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Kudzu -- 11/2/2009, 7:59 am
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paddledan -- 11/2/2009, 4:01 am
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paddledan -- 11/2/2009, 3:57 am
Painted Cirrus with White Hulls *Pic*
John Caldeira -- 11/1/2009, 11:03 pm
I'm partial to black . . . . *Pic*
Dave Gentry -- 11/1/2009, 9:01 pm
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Kudzu -- 11/1/2009, 8:44 pm
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dsmithla -- 11/3/2009, 1:54 pm
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brian scarborough -- 11/2/2009, 9:47 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/2/2009, 12:23 am