Yacht Anchored in a Bay Coloring Page

Add this yacht coloring page to your collection and a quiet bay comes with it. The Yacht Anchored in a Bay Coloring Page shows a three deck motor yacht seen at an angle from the bow, with curved windows along the main deck, two radar domes on the flybridge roof and a planked swim platform at the stern where an inflatable dinghy is tied on. Three palm trees stand on the point behind and hills close the bay.

It is a free printable yacht coloring page for children from 5 to 11, and it suits a summer afternoon or a holiday week at home.

How this coloring page was created

The line behind this page is "A sleek yacht anchored in a calm bay with a sun deck, railings and a small dinghy tied at the back, hills rising up the page behind". It went into Colorin AI and the print ready coloring page came back in seconds, drawn from the bow quarter so the length of the vessel runs across the sheet.

The word "anchored" calmed the water down to short ripple strokes and let the yacht sit level, and asking for the dinghy to be tied at the back added the rope that links the stern to the small boat, so the yacht and the dinghy read as one scene.

This yacht coloring page features

Three stacked decks set this page apart from a simple boat page. The hull, the main deck and the flybridge each have their own windows and their own rail, so the shape builds upward in clear steps.

Those steps also make the page easy to pace, because a child can finish one deck at a time and the drawing never looks half done.

Four small oval portholes run in a descending line along the bow, and above them the forward windows are each divided into four panes by three upright bars. The bow rail is drawn as a band split into short blocks, which gives it the look of close set posts seen from the front.

On the flybridge roof two dome shaped radar pods sit on either side of a thin antenna topped with a ball. At the stern an open deck with seating steps down to a swim platform planked in long boards, two rings hold a rope that runs to the dinghy, and the dinghy itself is a tube divided into segments with an outboard motor at one end. Three palm trees with banded trunks rise on the point, and three hills overlap behind them.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

White is the natural choice for a yacht, so the color can go into everything around it. A deep turquoise in the bay, green palms and warm gray hills leave the hull bright by contrast, which is how these boats look in a photograph.

A navy or burgundy stripe along the hull under the rail adds the finishing touch, and the windows look best in a pale blue gray with a white streak left across one corner. The dinghy takes gray with a black motor, and the planks of the swim platform look warmest in a light wood tone.

A holiday photo from the water can be the next page: turn the boat photo into a coloring sheet and color the bay you visited.

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