While the sailor is mopping the deck with water, Daffy swaps the pail of water with a pail of red paint. The sailor inadvertently paints a lot of the deck red. He ends up standing in the paint, and even doing a little dance in the paint. As he leaves, he drags the mop, saturated with red paint, across a part of the deck not painted red, leaving a red trail (from the mop). However, even though he had been standing the red paint, he leaves only the red trail from the mop and NO footprints.