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  • 21 Dec 2020 06:58
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    Reply # 9443390 on 4315719
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    Roelf: I do have the details in my paperwork, but they may just be the paint company's  codes.  I shall investigate.further and come back to you.


    Don't you want the pink, too ;-p   :-D
  • 20 Dec 2020 10:09
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    Reply # 9441893 on 4315719
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    Annie, do you have the color codes for the green, red and yellow? I think it goes very well together with the black hull.

    would you share them here?
  • 20 Dec 2020 04:36
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    Reply # 9441629 on 9441508
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    Jim wrote:

    Annie,

    What kind of cordage do you plan to use on Fanshi? In my photographs of Badger taken in 1992, it looks like you were using, for lack of the correct term, synthetic hemp. The colour goes well with the rest of the boat. I know that builders of replicas of "traditional" boats use it for consistency.


    Jim, I should love to use 'polyester hemp', if only for the joy of splicing it.  We used 'polypropylene hemp' on Badger, and I really liked it, but it wouldn't cope with the UV in Aotearoa.  However, both of them proved well beyond budget, because nobody makes that sort of cordage here, but I should have to pay import duty on any that I ordered, on the grounds that 'ít's rope and we make rope in this country'.  As well as import duty there is GST to pay, and that includes the packaging and insurance, if any.  Then you have to pay the Customs for doing what I would have thought is the job that they are already paid for, ie assessing the value of the goods.  And then you pay GST on that.  It would probably double the price of the rope which is already considerably more expensive than the local yacht braid.

    So, the short answer is: local polyester yacht braid.  No doubt it will do the job, but it's a long way from Marlow quality and, for me, impossible to splice.
  • 20 Dec 2020 04:27
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    Reply # 9441627 on 9433976
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    Arne wrote:Annie,

    misunderstand me correctly  -  I do like your boat, including the colours. To spell it out; if I were given a perfect copy of your Fanshi, I would keep her almost just as she is, and I would even preserve your planned rig, at least for a season or two. I most certainly would not tamper with the paintwork.
    The only modification which would come soon, would be to the companionway area. My stiff old knees would complain loudly every time I were to use it as it is now. I would therefore install an ordinary sliding hatch. Besides, the summer temperatures in the air and waters around Stavanger are close to that around Northern Scotland, so a fixed windscreen (glass) plus sprayhood would be very welcome.

    Cheers,
    Arne



    Arne, I am flattered that you think so highly of my little boat and like her just the way she is.

    I can understand your reservations about the companionway, and you are not alone.  However, part of my thinking was that the effort of getting in an out of it several times a day will keep me flexible, thus allowing me to live on a boat that much longer.  When I can no longer cope with it, it will be no big thing to get out my tools and some epoxy and change it for something more conventional.  In the meantime I shall enjoy my pramhood.  In my climate, the thought of having a giant, rotatable wind scoop is very appealing.  It is fiercely hot today; surrounded as I am by large boats and a shedthere is very little air moving and I very much wish I had made the cover for my pram hood already!  When I'm sailing in winter, rather than having  big, fixed dodger (that might send cold wind and rain down below), I shall spend much of my time in the pramhood, sheltered from the cold wind.  I am a lazy sailor and would much rather have a self-steering gear do the work than sit at the tiller!
  • 20 Dec 2020 02:50
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    Reply # 9441508 on 4315719
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    Annie,

    What kind of cordage do you plan to use on Fanshi? In my photographs of Badger taken in 1992, it looks like you were using, for lack of the correct term, synthetic hemp. The colour goes well with the rest of the boat. I know that builders of replicas of "traditional" boats use it for consistency.
  • 20 Dec 2020 01:04
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    Reply # 9441371 on 4315719
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    Ah. So pretty.
  • 16 Dec 2020 14:10
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    Reply # 9433976 on 9425445
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    Annie Hill wrote:.
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    As to pink being girlish: it used to be a colour associated with men until the 20th century.  Blue was for girls: Mary's robe being a fine example.  I feel a little sorry for men being worried about being girlsh: for at least half a century, very few women have worried that they might be considered boyish and that has liberated us to do what we want.

    I, too, will defend your right to play in the 'Good Enough League', Arne.  After all, ít's not a competition.  But if my colourful little boat brings a smile to people who see her, I shall get even more satisfaction out of what I have achieved.

    Annie,
    misunderstand me correctly  -  I do like your boat, including the colours. To spell it out; if I were given a perfect copy of your Fanshi, I would keep her almost just as she is, and I would even preserve your planned rig, at least for a season or two. I most certainly would not tamper with the paintwork.
    The only modification which would come soon, would be to the companionway area. My stiff old knees would complain loudly every time I were to use it as it is now. I would therefore install an ordinary sliding hatch. Besides, the summer temperatures in the air and waters around Stavanger are close to that around Northern Scotland, so a fixed windscreen (glass) plus sprayhood would be very welcome.

    Cheers,
    Arne


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  • 14 Dec 2020 19:21
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    Reply # 9429269 on 4315719
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    Well, I think I'm a bit long in the tooth to start following fashion trends, now.  Besides, I don't like blue paint on boats (or much else for that matter).

    Sorry, David, but I love my boat of many colours and so do lots of other people. I'm afraid you will just have to learn to live with it. My father wouldn't have been seen dead in an Hawai'ian shirt, but he would not have attempted to rationalise his prejudice ...
  • 13 Dec 2020 09:59
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    Reply # 9425929 on 4315719
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    There was me thinking the colours were Custard, Bubblegum,

    and Scooby Doo Mystery Machine....
  • 13 Dec 2020 08:09
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    Annie wrote:

    As to pink being girlish: it used to be a colour associated with men until the 20th century.  Blue was for girls: Mary's robe being a fine example.  I feel a little sorry for men being worried about being girlsh: for at least half a century, very few women have worried that they might be considered boyish and that has liberated us to do what we want.

    To be clear, it's not that the use of pink per se that upset my oh-so-delicate sensibility; it was the particular hue and tone of pink that was used, in combination with too many other colours.

    I note that the Pantone Colours of the Year in 2016 were in fact Rose Quartz and Serenity (a shade of blue)  * and if you scroll down that page, you see those colours combined with others to good effect. No, it's not that pink is "girlish", whatever that means these days, it's the choice of two or more complementary colours that has to be got right, and these Pantone "Colours of the Year" are a good place to look for inspiration, if one is planning to paint one's boat anything other than boring pure white.

    * Bruno, your lovely cartoon got the 'rose' right, but was just missing the 'serenity' element, I think ;-)

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