The Australian boats were at various stages, solid colours, coloured from above the water line, coloured diagonal stripes above the water line, 20% grey, a strong cream, powder puff blue and various tones of white. Decks have ranged from white, cream, 20% grey , powder puff blue. In addition, PSA does special orders. The boats are currently white with an off white deck, which has generally been my preferred choice for the last 30 years. The boat I spent half a season sailing on in the UK was lime green with cream decks, the same colour was available at the time in Australia when it was built.I'm not sure.. It's funny because the European boats and Aussie boats have always been white, or slightly off-white, so they have a good laugh when they come to NA to see the funny looking Lasers.
I've owned 2 70's orange boats, 2000 blue, 2006 dark blue, 2008 light blue and now all 2009,2010 whites... The whites are easier to gel coat damage.
@ Max, the yellow/dark grey was probably not their best choice ever. But yellow/white wasn't too bad though...
But is there a way to permanently color an existing white or grey laser? I don't know much about paint, but won't it need replacement as time goes on?
My Laser is a 2007 maroon. I LOVE it. Get many compliments on it from fellow Laser sailors.
A (transparent) Hansen sail would look great IMHO and bring out the 'interesting' deck colors.Thanks Torrid... that boat was a total and absolute wreck. I don't know if we'd do it again.. but for this project it turned out really nice.
We are going to mate this to custom grey and tangerine radial laminate sails.