Sailor of Fortune
Guru
" Painted boats look good at sea. Varnished boats look good at the dock"....old saying about wood boats.
As a great designer once said.........A real beauty! And I'm in the chorus calling for a darker blue hull. Or dark green.
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" Painted boats look good at sea. Varnished boats look good at the dock"....old saying about wood boats.
As a great designer once said.........
There are only two colors to paint a boat, black and white, and only a fool would paint a boat black. - Nathanael G. Herreshoff.
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As a great designer once said.........
There are only two colors to paint a boat, black and white, and only a fool would paint a boat black. - Nathanael G. Herreshoff.
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My "smokestack" is in my shed. Keep it for resale, I guess, in case someone wants to cutsie Spy up if I sell. I should probably destroy it and save Spy from future embarrassment....But (barff) it did have the silly "smokestack".
I agree w Herreshoff.
To disagree w Herreshoff would be like disagreeing w God.
But some people like to be different. I resemble that but I've never painted any boat black.
To those that have black boats they look good .. at times.
Dan I saw an all white AT on the float in LaConner lately and it looked wonderful after all the usual colored AT's. But Dan my boat's 25% green re topsides. The lack of FB probably helped my opinion along. But (barff) it did have the silly "smokestack".
If I had excessive amounts of cash, I would paint the topsides a beige to make the boat look better, IMO.
I painted all decks beige, with sand mixed in, on a previous boat and really loved it. Much better than white for not showing dirt. Plus it was different.
The only challenge was remembering to constantly mix it because the sand would settle to the bottom quickly.
Of course, then I would have to sell the boat to pay for the paint job too.
My boat was steel and I painted it with enamel, not two part polyurethane or anything fancy. Yours is way too pretty for the industrial paints. How about those Rustoleum paints? There have been a couple of threads here about them.
The phony smoke stack is to allow head room when walking down the steps from the pilot house to the saloon.
I have this very nice green hull and 2 blue lines on the smoke stack. I think this year, I will paint the stripes green to match the hull.
I did put a whistle light on top of the stack. Blow the horn and the light goes on while the horn is sounding. Helps people to find you in the dark. SMILE
If I had excessive amounts of cash, I would paint the topsides a beige to make the boat look better, IMO.
Hey Dan,
If the stack was for headroom it wouldn’t look like a smokestack. Unless the owners head looked like a smokestack. HaHa
Accent lines look good if done right.
You do have excessive amounts of cash. May have it all in your boat though.
You probably would spend the rest of your life trying to keep up with the varnish but the price is right....kinda, sorta. This 1942 Monk 50 can be had for the amazing price of $39.9K and excuse me if I sound like a yacht broker. And a woody dink comes with it. It looks very similar to another Monk woody I posted back in September but definitely a different boat.
https://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1942/monk-50-motoryacht-3529336/?refSource=standard listing
WAY too much varnish!!! That boat is my age, older than dirt!!
From an era where the owner would step off and the maintenance crew would step on board. Plus it has been kept in a covered boat well.
At most, a weekender.
Do not put me on the list of "Potential buyers". All I see is work.
ALL boats rot. Any implication that a Tolly is better built than this gorgeous Monk, built in 1942 and still proudly afloat, is naive.
All I see is beauty!! - - - >
Monk did the hull and superstructure. Tolly did the interior as well as guiding Monk's designs. Together they designed and constructed some truly great and lasting Tollycraft pleasure boats. After Monk Sr. passed Monk Jr. stepped in to continue great Tollycraft boat designs.
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You probably would spend the rest of your life trying to keep up with the varnish but the price is right....kinda, sorta. This 1942 Monk 50 can be had for the amazing price of $39.9K and excuse me if I sound like a yacht broker. And a woody dink comes with it. It looks very similar to another Monk woody I posted back in September but definitely a different boat.
https://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1942/monk-50-motoryacht-3529336/?refSource=standard listing
ghost,
Thanks so much for sharing and I’da bet considerable money that your boat was/is hard chine. A beautiful boat indeed. We were at Nanaimo last year. Always love mooring down in the downtown harbor. A bit uptown we found a Starbucks too.
Thanks again
Soft chines are like the girl from Ipanema. "When she walks, she's like a samba that swings so cool and sways so gentle."