Colourways and Name
For Ullapool Skiffies - The time is rapidly approaching when we will need to be thinking about painting the Skiff. To kickstart the debate a number of possibilities are shown below. These are indications only, the possibilities are endless – come up with your own suggestions and I will add it to the gallery. The idea is to have a multi liveried fleet on the water at regattas – it could be spectacular. So we want something that reflect the good taste and cultural eminence of our syndicate. 
As usual ~ click on the thumbnail for the bigger picture
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- White + Tangerine Sheerstrake
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- Pale Green + Buckingham Green Sheerstrake
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- Black + White Sheerstrake
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- Black as night
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- White + Black Sheerstrake
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- Grey + Black Sheerstrake
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- Ivory + Yellow Sheerstrake
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- White + Scarlet Sheerstrake
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- Ivory + Scarlet Sheerstrake
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- Duotone Pink
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- Cream + British Racing Green Sheerstrake
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- Ivory + British Racing Green Sheerstrake
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- White + Brght Blue Sheerstrake
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- Cream + Crimson Lake Sheerstrake
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- Bright finished with Mahogany stained Sheerstrake
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- Skiff, Ivory + Pale green Sheer
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- Skiff, Ivory + Grey Sheer
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- Skiff, based on Victory Ships boat livery
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- Skiff, based on Victory Ships boat livery + gun Ports & Name on Plank5
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- Skiff, based on Victory Ships boat livery + gun Ports & Name on Sheerstrake.
We also need to think of a suitable name – somebody must have an idea kicking around at the back of their mind? Let us have some suggestions. 09/02/10 Update – possible name suggested, ‘Ulla’ – possibly provocatively expanded to ‘Ulla Won’
I quite like the black/ white, white/black, and green/ivory ones, but would be content with any non-pink scheme. Black as night also has a certain menace; can we get matt black? As in the black spaceship in “The Restaurant at the end of the Universe”, which was so black it hurt the eyes.
Favour black myself, the gold leaf bling will show up well against it although I have a suspicion (following our industrial espionage the other day and their carelessly filed names list) that the other lot have a tendency towards the blackside.
“The Restaurant at the end of the Universe” – now that’s a thought, lot of signwriting tho’ – and a bit of a mouthful for our cheerleaders.
I forgot to say that bright gunwales would be nice, perhaps using Varnol since they are bound to get knocks.
Good stocks are on hand and the ease of repair is second to none, and if ragged over for a satin finish wouldn’t give the crew ‘varnishblindness’, from experience it can be pretty fierce on a sunny day. A good argument for avoiding pure white on the inside. I like a light grey.