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Custom Colors

Unlike Henry Ford who offered the model "T" in any color as long as you liked black, we can make the hull of your boat any of these colors. However note that if you plan on storing your boat out in the direct sunlight the darker colors will fade over time. The time period will be several years unless you are storing the boat out in the tropical sun, and then its a bit faster. A stroll down the dock at your local marina will show you what sunlight can do to gelcoat. If you drag your boat up and down the beach all day long, the under layers of fiberglass are white thus the scratches will show through the darker colors. If your yacht is a beautiful color of blue that isn't on this chart and you are dying for a matching dinghy. Contact us and lets see what we can do.

If the color of your yacht is a dark color, often the best choice is to have us do a nice stripe in the matching darker color, and have the rest of the hull a light color for easy care. The color stripe will remind your eye as to which yacht this dinghy belongs to.

We use gray for the basic color for the inside of our boats because it doesn't show the dirt from regular usage and its easy on our eyes in bright sunlight. We've built some boats with a light cream interior and while it looks great, we've found that it really shows every bit of dirt, so we don't recommend it. However we are a custom boat builder and we'll build your boat any color you want. We want you to have a boat that you are proud to show off.

If your boat has a deck, like the 15' Lobster Boat, you can have the deck a different color from the rest of the interior. When we take your order, we'll nail down all these details. As you look over the various boat photos on our site, you'll notice some of the variations we have done over the years. This is by no means a complete history of all the color combinations we have built for our customers

Please note that these colors as they appear on your screen are subjective to the settings on your computer monitor and that the actual color may not be exactly the one you see. When you get serious we can trade paint chips.

The prices for the custom colors for each boat style are listed on our prices page. If you need a special color mixed up, that isn't on this chart, there is a small surcharge, but considering the work involved we think that you'll find us very reasonable.


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