I know it's not reasonable and white would be the best, but I am really attracted to black cats... (not the onese with 4 feets so)
The question is, if my 1980 repaired SC20 will get black gelcoat, will it survive?
We face up to 39°C here in summer with strong sun. The VX40 are autoclave and might not mind the heat, the foam of my old SC20 might think different about it.
Did anyone ever paint his old sandwich cat (I am sure it's not an issue with solid one layer glassfibre hulls) very dark and share his experience?
I had a kind of protype carbon A-cat earlier and I sailed it in carbon look for one season. The proplem occured with areas where there were some air in the foam layer and resin not fully hardened. It literally started cooking under the sun and before the Worlds in Italy at that time I found myself painting the platform white in fear of the warm south...
I don't expect those problems with the SC20, but maybe choosing black instead of a medium gray might be searching for trouble?
