Touch-up Required

[SteveO]

The sign-written names on our boat are looking a bit worse for wear and require a bit of a touch-up. Does anyone know a reasonably priced, competent local sign-writer who does this kind of work? Royal Academy skill-levels would be fine, but can't afford Royal Academy prices.

Thanks for any information you can give me.

 

[LondonRascal]

I can't help but thought I would comment because on the new Sheerline, these have had hand painted names - which are themselves faded and it is interesting to see how people differ - the previous owner wanted painted, you wish to have the same and yet myself prefer Vinyl for the fact when fade it is easy to remove and re-apply new graphics.

You might find it hard to get someone to do it, but perhaps Hunters Yard would be a good place to begin since I would presume their fleet has traditional painted names on them and not vinyl.

[dnks34]

I can see the reason for preferring them painted but our Vinyls have been on 8 years and look as good as the day I applied them.  Modern vinyl really does stand the test of time. 

[DaveRolaves]

Our vinyl lettering came from SAC and have been on the boat for 12 years and still look good as new.

[JohnK]

No idea how long they will last but I bought 4 name stickers for our dinghy for £2.99 off Amazon.

[Wyndham]

.....with a thread title like that you're just asking for this to be derailed.

[socrates]

Couldn't find a decent sign writer when we were wanting the name on our transom. Eventually got some custom made vinyl lettering which does the job. Bloke from Lowestoft did it, can't recall his name but he has a shop which does all sorts of graphics. 

I suppose the old Dymo label maker is out the question?

[grendel]

I think I have a dymo machine that does 1" wide lettering stored away somewhere.

[Selsie]

I had to basically do the line design for our Falcon logos as they are discontinued for obvious reasons, sent them to the guys below and the results were superb.

I would highly recommend them very good price wise too.

Falcon.docx

VinylRevolutionLimited MarlboroughHouse HeritageGate,SandyLane West Oxford OX46LB UnitedKingdom

[Londonlad1985]

8 minutes ago, grendel said:

I think I have a dymo machine that does 1" wide lettering stored away somewhere.

That is pretty big for a dymo! The tape in mine is only 10mm. (I got it from work as a joke becuase I kept leaving crucial details off my drawings) I'm happy to make tiny boat labels for the forum 

[grendel]

yes the machine is about the size of a typewriter.

like this -

[diesel falcon]

oh, ours are not that color ,just jet washed my go faster strips off aswell!! lol, thanks for the links

[Selsie]

Ours were originally  silver/grey as below, just thought i'd get a bit bolder colour to match the under hull.

Thought it was a reasonable job, trouble is even hunting on the web I couldn't find the original patterns.

[Selsie]

looking at the pic of the new logo it looks angled, i promise that's my rubbish camera angle making it look crooked.

[diesel falcon]

for a mo i thought ours were not standard that,s all , will get ours done in summer they are a good match!well done

[LondonRascal]

I have found Funky Monkey very good and fast for letting and graphics: http://www.funkymonkeyboatnames.co.uk/

[Selsie]

11 minutes ago, LondonRascal said:

I have found Funky Monkey very good and fast for letting and graphics: http://www.funkymonkeyboatnames.co.uk/

Is that where you had Indy's lettering made, it looks pretty good. 

We are passing your way over the holiday, I may pop by and take a peek at the vessel if thats ok

[dnks34]

funkymonkey is who we used 8 years back, no problems at all with them they supplied excellent vinyls to us. 

[SteveO]

Thanks guys. I have a set of vinyl names but I am reluctant to remove the original sign-writting as I feel that they are more "in-keeping" with the boat.  I will deploy as a last resort, but in the meantime, will ask at Hunters, as Robin suggests. A lot of boats on the Broads still have sign-written names so there must be someone out there who does it.

[VetChugger]

I would not be at all surprised if the names on the Martham fleet were  hand done!

[marshman]

Colin Buttifant definitely knows of at least one!