>Fluorescent orange, fluorescent yellow, or my favorite, fluorescent >green. Bright yellow-green, the color found on those new highway >pedestrian signs, the electric color of some cycling jackets, and >the glowing colors that one can get in spray paint. >That gleam gets your attention. If you paint your boat -or anything else- with this daylight fluorescent colors you will have not a bright boat -or whatever- for a very long time. These colors fade very fast in sunlight and then they simply look ugly. So if you paddle only after dark, or in caves that it might be OK, but if you enjoy sunny days for paddling than look for other colors. Little story to illustrate the message: Some time ago the local paramedics got a new truck, painted with daylight fluorescent red and greenish yellow. A sore in the eye, but only for about 3 month. Than the UV in the sunlight had faded the color and the brand new truck looked pretty rotten. A complain brought up only a big questionmark by the manufacturer. Why didn't you park the truck inside??? Well, I guess if you have something new and fancy you want to show it, and you don't want to hide it in the garage. Cheers Ulli BTW: I painted my boat white and colored the deck yellow and red. The white hull shows a good contrast to the water, while the yellow/red blend over paintjob for the deck is more for the good look. Ulli Hoeger Dept. Physiology and Biophysics Dalhousie University Halifax, B3H4H7, Nova Scotia Canada Phone I : 902-494-2673 Fax: 902-494-1685 Phone II :902-488-6796 http://is.dal.ca/~uhoeger *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Mar 12 2000 - 12:43:21 PST
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