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Just curious where and how do people place the name of their boats onto their boats here.

I have an Elliot Bay 24' hull and placing a name on the stern would allow fish to be able to read it from the fantail so I was thinking of having vinyl graphics done to place on the front sides near the bow as I dont want to drill holes into the hull to mount a wooden nameboard.

What are everyone's thoughts on this?

Looking over the photographs of the Lee's Mills meet last year, traditional launches have name boards mounted on the canopy, or the boat name painted on each side of the bow, either above or below the typical registration numbers. Boats with cabins have a nameboard on the cabin sides.

You don't have any of these photos that could be shared here by chance do you?

Hello Ofcalipka

if you are looking for impressions of how boat names and graphics can look like have a look at my steam boat register with 139 boats and more than 1000 steam boat pictures herer:
http://www.steamboating.de/boats/aaa-radow-abc.html

Even if this designs are made from wood or bonce, you maybe could be inspired by it'.

I like this for instance:

Aladin


and Felicitas at http://www.steamboating.de/boats/feli-main.html


have a look herre http://www.steamboating.de/boats/fic-main.html


Horus


Tide

and so on.

The guy who painted the name on my truck did such a great job ,I got him to do the Queen too!!
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You can chose any font you want and there are tons available on these computor program decals.Me -I like hand done! But that's just me! Den

Or maybe have a "vinyl" wooden block made with the name on it.It would appear to be wooden but it's a decal! And no drilling the hull![/img]

Thanks.

Nice ideas as well photographs. I just loved it. cool.