If you fancy a nice banner. Feel free to place links to pics of your boat etc here. Ill randomly select up voted ones and post them as banners to the community. Till then you will have to tollerate my little scuffy boat.
She’s beautiful!
She desperatly needs a cleaner paint job. Previose owner had no idea about keying to the previose coat.
In the next year or 2 we plan to paint it midnight blue with orange accents. Obviosely keep a bright white roof. Makes a huge diff in the sun. But as most of the roof will be covered in solar next year. Again we are not sure how that will work heat wise.
White top is the only way. Made a huge difference just cleaning and repainting the roof when we got our boat. I can’t imagine what it must be like to have a dark topped boat in this weather!
We have a couple of largish panels towards the stern (above our bedroom). I’d say it keeps the heat off somewhat. We got a deal on bifacial panels, so perhaps this summer when it gets really hot we’ll put some foil down on the roof with the double win of reflecting heat and maybe adding a few more watts to our solar input. Not that we’d need them on the hottest days of course… Although a small A/C unit is probably within our power budget for those days now I think of it!
Ours is very much in need of a paint job. When we painted the roof, we sanded back and fertan’d some rust spots on the side, with the good intention of painting the sides later. That was a couple of years back, poor thing! Maybe this year.
If this is trimmable into a usable shape for a banner, you are welcome to use this :)
Concentrate on the view rather then the boat. it works prettuy well
