Hi Annie,

Congratulations to a beautiful boat you built and I wish you fair winds when you sail it. Looking at your boat I see Haslers Practical Junkrig put into reality including the glass dome for protected sailing. I like everything of your boat including the colour although I am colour blind and battle to see the difference between grey or pink. My father used to say the boy is too dumb to remember colours. But I lived with it a long life already and can discern between a friendly colour scheme and one I do not like and your boat I really like. My life dream is to also sail at least once on the sea with my small junkrig Wilde Qualle ( 400 km to the nearest shore ) and when I achieve it I will also document it here in the JRA forum. So far I only sailed on local lakes and will carry on improving the boat to make it seaworthy. I have no lights yet for instance and no log. But it will come and in the meantime I follow boats like yours here on the JRA forum. Will your launch still be 15th of January in the middle of summer on your side of the world ? If so I do not want to miss it and wish you all the best for it.

Greetings from Karl ( Austria )

Annie, this is all so very exciting! Even if certain individuals (ahem) are feeling the need to be so relentless about the color scheme critique. At least it gives the rest of us a chance to affirm how much we like it :-)

Brava! To the whole project – can't wait to see the big float. Video?? Please??!? Any way around, I'll be glued to the possibility for updates come January 15. How wonderful that you will still have so much of your summer yet on the way.

Cheers!

Nothing wrong with pink!

Lovely, Your photo has a nostalgic, Winslow Homer quality. I like the soft focus.

About the pink. On my screen, on the left,  I see a white boat with a hint of pink. On the right, a mustard coloured boat. Maybe I need to adjust something in Settings.

Fanshi  to my eye looks just fabulous...

I love the ever so slight disharmony- gives her a purposeful looking air as if she’s eager to be moving. Definitely a boat for adventure. Bold. And fun.

(When I said custard/bubblegum/scoobydoo mystery machine, I meant it as a compliment!)

Beauty in the eye of the beholder, you either dig it or you don’t.

Graeme’s dinghy.. gorgeous 

But Pink Lady, oh dear-not a wonder she did so well, all the way round the water ahead of her must have been trying to get out of the way..

A Christmas tale.

Annie is in good company and not the first to have pink on the topsides.

65 years ago (or more) my Dad built me my first boat. My Mum was quite artistic and considered something pretty good with water colours, oils etc. She intervened at that point with the decision that she would choose the colour scheme, and all the rage at the time was sunset pink and grey. To my horror and mortification, pink and grey it was. No amount of protestation made any difference. 

(I pleaded unsuccessfully for a terylene sail too - the latest innovation and last chance to salvage some self-respect - but the family could not afford it so I got what was probably one of the last cotton sails made in New Zealand).

A Christmas visit to the old home and the discovery of a mould-damaged  35mm kodachrome and there she is on the beach on a fast-ebbing tide: a pink boat with japara cotton sail!

I pretty quickly learned to be grateful though - with hindsight, a lucky fellow, on the far left, wet pants from hopping over the side (can't put a scratch on that shiny pink hull).

Nothing wrong with pink!