Ah! Memories!

[Jim Blake]

Just finished repainting the bathroom (after the lightning strike, but that's a WHOLE different story!) and wondering why I kept remembering things from a trip on the Fremantle Star...Then I twigged. The Missus had chosen paint, a delicate shade of green called (By Dulux, anyway) "Willow Tree"...but that was marketing nonsense...it was Eau de Nil...Crankcase door colour. Oh how it takes you back!

[David Fox]

Jim, as you sit there, you can contemplate on all those units you have pulled, deflections & clearances taken and hammer tests carried out particularly the morning after coming in from deep sea and having a bit of a party that night, particularly Kiwi. By 'smoko' you were starting to 'come good' and by lunch time ready for a livener.

If after a few years you could always repaint in cream or was it Magnolia, the colour of Doxfords and the old MAN's and possibly the B&W's 'A' boats. Though Doxfords tended to come with a brown stripey vertical pattern the colour of heavy oil. It must have taken a bit of skill to get those stripes on and I am surprised the company allowed two tone colour schemes. I know they didn't like red tunnel shafting.
I believe you can buy paint with stripes in it now but have to be careful you don't put it on the wrong way.

David

[A.D.Frost]

Sailed with few changing rooms with cream, sorry magnolia with scavenge black hand prints(How do they get the Black hand prints into the paint?)I always thought that Doxfords used GeordieTartan paint (non-drying type)