ASSESSING YACHT COATINGS

摘要

One of the most important elements of a mega-yacht is its visual impact. A large part of this impact is attributable to the appearance of the final coating finish of the external hull. For many years the assessment of the hull and superstructure coating has been based around terms such as “Super/Megayacht standard”. This paper sets out to explore what this means and offers some suggestions and a proposal as to how the assessment of yacht finishes can be standardised and made more objective. The paper will first consider the current approaches adopted and then look at the present work of the ISO standards committee and finally suggest a proposal that may have some merit.