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There are 11 boat paints in Sailing, and each one unlocks a trim for your boat at the shipyard. All of them can be obtained on Veridia. Every paint is added to the Boat Paints page of the collection log when you get it.
Most paints are rare drops from Sailing activities
Paint | How to get it | Rate |
|---|---|---|
Shark paint | Completing any port task (courier or bounty) | 1/36 per task |
Inky paint | Killing krakens at sea | Pygmy 1/3,000, Spined 1/2,500, Armoured 1/2,000, Veiled 1/1,900, Vampyre 1/1,500 |
Inky paint | Sorting plundered salvage (Pirate shipwreck, level 64) | 1/5,000 per salvage sorted |
Barracuda paint | Beating the target time on a Marlin rank Barracuda Trial | Tempor Tantrum 1/240, Jubbly Jive 1/220, Gwenith Glide 1/400 |
Angler's paint | Deep sea trawling | 1/18,000 per catch, or 1/16,200 from a mixed shoal |
Salvor's paint | Sorting martial salvage (Mercenary shipwreck, level 73) | 1/24,000 per salvage sorted |
Sandy paint is a guaranteed drop with the Crab dance
Hermit crabs on the Great Conch always drop sandy paint if you do the Crab dance emote before landing the killing blow. You unlock the Crab dance by charting the crab monument on Wintumber Island on foot.
Merchant's paint is a trade from Trader Stan
Trader Stan will give you merchant's paint if you bring him one each of shark, inky, barracuda, salvor's and angler's paint. Make sure the paints are unnoted and in your inventory, as he won't take them from your bank or from a cargo hold. He won't take god paints or sandy paint either, since those can't be traded.
God paints come from charting each ocean
The four god paints come from charting an ocean in full. Once an ocean is fully charted, show your captain's log to Gerardus in Port Roberts and he will hand you a trinket for it. Hand the trinket to the right person below and they will give you that paint whenever you ask for it after that. Please note that the Western Ocean, the Sunset Ocean and the bonus charts don't give a trinket.
Paint | Ocean to chart | Where to take the trinket |
|---|---|---|
Armadylean paint | Northern Ocean | Larrissa |
Zamorakian paint | Unquiet Ocean | Use the charred key on the old chest in the Charred Dungeon (through the dark hole on Charred Island) |
Guthixian paint | Shrouded Ocean | The Elite Void Knight |
Saradominist paint | Ardent Ocean | The High Priest |
If you lose a trinket before handing it over, ask Gerardus for a spare and he will give it to you again.