a call out to Don @ Hermco

[oldbluesplayer]

Don -

You used to have pix of a 20' Seafari done up, blue hull - can't find that on your website anymore -

Would love to see that again, any chance of posting it in here ?

I have a hankering for doing a blue hull / white bottom scheme - want to see that blue boat again.... though maybe I'll just go with a white bottom on my red boat

thanks

Bill

[Bigshrimpin]

[Rich]

I could be wrong, but I think the one you are referring to was Potter's own Overnighter.

It was for sale on the site some time back. Click here.

Don probably still has a picture..

[oldbluesplayer]

Big - nice ad - hadn't seen that one before - but not what I was talking about - but that helps

Rich -the Overnighter, as I recall, was a yellow hull, a variation of the 20' Sceptre

the one I was thinking about was a blue hulled 20' Seafari with an O/B mounted on a bracket.

thanks

Bill

[Rich]

He had two I think, an orange colored and a blue one, both had brackets.

[cSickNick]

OK ..... i stole it ....

[Fr. Frank]

I still love the fighting lady yellow with a white bottom. My 1st Seacraft was like that. A '73 23' SF w/ twin 115 Mercurys.

Sigh.

[oldbluesplayer]

Nick got the pix I was looking for - Thanks

Fr. Frank - what sort of performance do you get out of your Seafari with the 150 Merc ?

blue hull = bad luck ?? - hadn't heard that one before - seen plenty of blue hulled boats, but damn sure don't need to invite any bad luck - gotta think about that one a bit.

thanks, gents !

Bill

[thehermit]

Hey Bill,
From what I know it kind of follows Carla's story. Blue ships are hard to see since the ocean and sky (most of the time) is blue. I have also seen that long ago blue paint was expensive and may have fed the lore at some point. Of coarse many boats are blue these days. I love reading all of this stuff and there is a lot of it out there. If you go for the blue hull just dont whistle on the way to the fishing grounds while eating a bannana after leaving on a Friday in a boat named Porky the Pig.

[Capt Chuck]

Blue ships are hard to see since the ocean and sky (most of the time) is blue

I don't agree totaly (this is my disclaimer if proved wrong)

The US Navy paints their hulls "Haze Grey" as to make them invisable on the horizon. I remember Mr. Potter telling me that SeaCraft purposely chose 4 distinct colors for their hulls so they would be Highly Visable out on the water. "Yellow, Dark Blue, Red and robins egg blue."