New yacht from Croatia; 50-meter "JoyMe"

The paint job gives me a headache.

Agreed.......looks like something you'd find on a houseboat

Gents,

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To try to enhance the shape with a paint pattern is interesting. Gropius and even Alberts did it on their research of transforming a simple shape to a visual impact.
I hope this was the goal in that case. The design of the eyes in the middle seams the most interesting, I find the color lines quite randomly organize without giving more strength in the whole visual.
The eyes are some kind of a reflection at us. Interesting.
I will not say I like the boat as is, but the owner put some real courage to try something. Perhaps a little lake of knowledge make the project not as interesting as it should be.
But that is just my opinion.

Finally, she is "underway".Cruising around Split and nearby islands in Croatia.

Interesting. This style of nautical paint scheme goes back as far as 1914 during World War 1. It would appear that this is a post cold modern Croatian interpretation.
Dazzle camouflage, also known as Razzle Dazzle or Dazzle painting, was a camouflage paint scheme used on ships, extensively during World War I and to a lesser extent in World War II. Credited to artist Norman Wilkinson, it consisted of a complex pattern of geometric shapes in contrasting colours, interrupting and intersecting each other. source Wiki

Earliest example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dazzle-ships_in_Drydock_at_Liverpool.jpg

Recent influence but not a nautical influence but same effect

On the other hand I could be talking absolute nonsense and the boat is simply a monument to noveaux riche confused taste.

Pass the pills.

the principal of the design is not new by any means

WW2 vessels used to have elaborate colour schemes ... 3/4 tone zig zag effect .. various greys and blues to blend in wirh the sea from distance to avoid being spotted


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Hi,

I'm pretty sure that Aircraft Carrier and other war ships from that era painted it for camouflage, and nothing else. As the boat in question is more of an abstract painting theme. And hats off, the amount of effort gone into the idea would of been massive.

Far

Hi Far and Colin – I agree with you about the amount of effort and passion put into the paint job. It’s not to my taste – but then ‘each to his own’. You are right about the camouflage, except it didn’t work very well and was not actually designed for that purpose.

In WW2, Rear Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten of the Royal Navy, designed a ranging system for sea gunnery. This was so successful that it is still forms the basis of computer range-finding today. Of course, range-finding relies on establishing the length of the vessel and this was particularly important to submariners when ranging torpedoes. So he devised a paint scheme for the front of the ship which gave it a false bow, thus disrupting measurement. This worked well but the German Navy soon learned to compensate for it and so the whole vessel was ‘hazard’ painted (as per the link in post #9). This confused the rangefinders and in certain lighting conditions made the ship difficult to see. However, those conditions were rare and so the camouflage element was less effective.

I suspect those who paint their yachts in this style today are not really interested in camouflage – but prefer to be seen!

The Kaleidoscope yacht...

Definitely very colorful........a job like that really needs a vivid imagination.

I Love Piet Mondrain's paintings - but I wouldn't want to live inside one