1970’s era Chestnut Ogilvy green paint

GrandLakerMitch

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I recently inherited a 70’s era ogilvy. It’s a beautiful canoe and in incredible shape. But it’s scuffed up along the bottom of the canoe.

It’s a light green colour, but I have no reason to believe it isnt original. Anyone know what builders or people are using for these old canoes? I don’t mind repainting the whole thing, as it’s not likely to be a perfect match, but I’m more looking for the brand and paint type as well.

Thanks in advance!
 
Well...Chestnut green again.
Here are a few threads from people looking for the same color match and background about many of the supposed matches. If you live in Canada you will apparently have few hardware store options. I chose to mix mine using Epifanes, a good quality and readily available paint that I figured others could also obtain.
A Chestnut should not be dyspeptic mint green.
 
ok, well this is great. and thank you for the links. However, that's not the green of my canoe. I guess it's possible it's not original then, as it is certainly a more traditional deep and dark green, versus the light green in those photos.

I'll try to send photos from my phone, but right now from my desktop, I don't think I have any to upload.
 
That is a dark green that was offered although it's not the one that many of us have struggled to match. For that particular color, there are probably a lot of available paints that would be fairly close. If you read through the threads you will note that the company that provided the original paint is no longer in business so that exact paint is no longer offered. Getting close is your best bet. Mike Elliott offers a recipe for Chestnut Dark Green (your color) that you might be able to match. I found that his other recipes were hard to follow since the shops he is using were not accessible to me. And...Kirby's is always an option if you would like to try to have them match for you. They are always willing.
Frankly, in that it's a basic dark green and not the odd harder to match grey green, I would not obsess over trying to get a perfect match. Find a color that you like and paint the entire canoe.
Good luck.
 
Here you go. Here's what Mike Elliott wrote in his first book. According to this, your Ogilvy should have the lighter greenish grey.
Home Hardware should be able to mix these up for you.
My Pal, has the darker forest green that yours has currently.
Beautiful Ogilvy! I prefer the darker green, even though it's probably not what it was painted with originally...

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