It's not red, it's fluorescent orange.
Oh yeah it was a big problem back then. Before I had a hard drive fail a few years back I had a few pics from a professional photographer of the full deck Winston Eagle who shot the boat on the same day using different film types and shutter speeds to show how radically it could change. Some pics were spot on showing the correct day glo (fluorescent) orange while others with different film and shutter speeds made the boat look solid red. There was never a solid red Winston Eagle!Isn't that normal for the "Joe's", orange mistaken or, more correctly, misinterpreted by camera film for red?
Supposedly the DuPont paint color name at that time for whatever reason was fluorescent red but it was orange. That came directly from a former U-10 crew member (wish I could remember his name) when I was researching getting ready build my Winston lobster boat. He also told me how happy they were when they switched to the Smokin' Joe's paint scheme. Said they hated the orange because it was **** near impossible to touch up and not have it look like crap. Somewhere around here I have photos of the very first test session of the lobster hull and it's definitely orange.
At one point that orange was called fluorescent red in Dupont line. Don't ask me why but that came from a long time Dupont paint guy......
JON KOSMOSKI formed house of kolor paints in 1956 from memory?
