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Evenin' folks. I was down at the marina today & just realized, no one talks about or posts boat graphics on the BB... Whassup with that? Doesnt anyone do boats?
-------------------- Felix Marcano PuertoRicoSigns.Com Luquillo, PR
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Sure, some of us do boats. There are 2 antique boats I work on every year--one is a private job from about 1910, 50 footer, and the other runs excursions on the local lake in season. This one is from 1912, and is a 55 footer.
These get old style stern lettering, restriping a groove cut in just below the gunwale, and no modern type graphics.
Most of the boats I work on are of the older persuasion, so graphics are pretty much out.
Dave Grundy does a lot of expensive holes in the water too, but we haven't seen him lately.
-------------------- Bill Preston Fly Creek, N.Y. USA Posts: 943 | From: Fly Creek, N.Y. USA | Registered: Jan 2000
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I started my business over 20 years ago doing boats at a local marina. Back then everything was hand painted. It was hard work in the hot sun and the bugs would sometimes make you want to scream.There were a lot of surprises on the jobs like - the customer forgot to tell you there was a name already on the boat that had to be removed; or the boat's leaving town in 2 days; or here comes a rain cloud before I'm finished with the shadow color. I much rather like working in an air conditioned office these days. Boats are more of an occasional job now.
-------------------- Jean Shimp Shimp Sign & Design Co. Jacksonville Beach, Fl Posts: 1266 | From: Jacksonville Beach, Fl. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Boats are good money if you can stand the inevitable aggravations. They include heat, rain, stupid questions from owners, removing old lettering, and wax on gelcoat - boat owners will swear on their mother that they cleaned the transom, 'til your first brush full of paint shows all the fisheyes (grrrrr). On the other hand, there's not much more satisfying than being able to show up with a kit, do a quick stabilo layout, bang out the lettering with a #10 quill in half'n hour and collect $150. Not to mention there is something special about boatyards on a warm spring afternoon - the smell of paint and saltwater, the sense of anticipation of a summer on the water, the buzz of purposeful activity.
-------------------- "A wise man concerns himself with the truth, not with what people believe." - Aristotle
Cam Bortz Finest Kind Signs Pondside Iron works 256 S. Broad St. Pawcatuck, Ct. 06379 "Award winning Signs since 1988" Posts: 3051 | From: Pawcatuck,Connecticut USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I just finished an offshore racer today (and we're 6 hours from the ocean) Lots of boat business here on Lake Lanier - I do about 50-80 a year- cruisers, houseboats, pontoons, blowboats, and bassers, anything that floats. Got a 40' Hinckley next week that needs the cove stripe gold-leafed. I tried to do an hours and material pricing, but they insisted on a solid figure. Hope I don't lose my a** on this one.
-------------------- www.signcreations.net Sonny Franks Lilburn, GA 770-923-9933 Posts: 4115 | From: Lilburn, GA USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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I love doing boats! They are fun,easy and profitable.
I just finished 2 60ft Carver aft boats and 3 45ft SeaRay's.
I wish I could do a hundred of them. There's nothing like spending a warm,sunny day at Burnham harbor on Chicago's great lakefront.
Man o' man!
Joel
-------------------- Joel H. Peters Peter Pan Sign Graphics Cary,Il. "Doin' it Good since 1974" Posts: 114 | From: Cary,IL,USA | Registered: Mar 1999
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I just did another boat yesterday. Most of the boats we do are wooden plank or steel fish boats in the 42'-102' size range. They get worked hard and beat hard. I have a very different respect for them than for plastic toy boats.
A couple years ago, my family was sailing a rented Cal20 in Newport Beach, and it was sad to see all these megnificant yachts with computer letters on them. Years back they were all done by lettering artists and the proportion of each letter and the whole presentation just seemed so perfect.Many were still hand lettered, but the distortions of the letters didn't flow like something hand drawn. I sure wish there were some areas still held sacred.
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Felix, funny you ask! Monday and Tuesday I Gilded a 1.25" stripe down each side of a 60 foot double mast boat. I started a 6 foot carved mahogany name board ( ribbon type ) today. You can check my web site and take a look at it. Go to my" job in progress" page. I will have photos on there tomorrow. I will try to link to the site the boat is on. It has been built from the ground up! 1.3 million later, it is almost done. It truley a work of art!!!!!
-------------------- Tony Vickio The World Famous Vickio Signs 3364 Rt.329 Watkins Glen, NY 14891 t30v@vickiosigns.com 607-535-6241 http://www.vickiosigns.com Posts: 1063 | From: Watkins Glen, New York | Registered: Sep 2001
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Yep I do boats! quite a few actually, I find it has to do with being between 2 boat yards, general you get more boat lettering work if your close to the ocean seriously I do love to letter boats, of course Cam's points about wax gelcoats are true. But there is nothing more fun than spending the afternoon at the boatyard. I remember a last year I went to do a boat at one of the many yatch clubs in Salem and Marblehead, the job was to be vinyl letters and a large hand painted / airbrush pictorial in the center. One of the members comes over while I am appling the vinyl and says "does anybody do that by hand anymore?" I said "come back in 10 minutes" within 20 minutes I had 10 guys watching me painting and airbrushing this cartoon witch on the transom of the boat, by the time I was done I had given out every business card I had, and of the 10_12 guys watching 7-8 called to get me to do theirs. The only other thing is that the window of time they want it done in is sometimes small. they want it lettered before it goes in the water, and that is usually scedualed in advance.
-------------------- Ken McTague, Concept Signs 57 Bridge St. (route 107) Salem MA 01970 1-978-745-5800 conceptsign@yahoo.com http://www.pinheadlounge.com/CaptainKen
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The last boat i painted was in '96 and it ended up as a great job: it was a 30-some-odd-foot cabin cruiser with a beautiful mahogony transom that was being totally renovated, so it was dry docked in a warehouse. The boat name was the "Lilly-L" and I ended up painting a huge lily into the design. combination brush and airbrush.
That reminds me, I need to go by the marina where it is docked most of the time and see if it is still in good shape. Unfortunatly, I didn't get any pics that did it justice.
-------------------- Michael Clanton Clanton Graphics/ Blackberry 19 Studio 1933 Blackberry Conway AR 72034 501-505-6794 clantongraphics@yahoo.com Posts: 1736 | From: Conway Arkansas | Registered: Oct 2001
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My first foray back into painting for profit was a 28' Sportfisher named Janet M a couple of weeks ago. It was one of the first "short sleeve" days of the spring, and it really made me remember why I like to paint.
-------------------- Ben Sherr Street Metal Custom Auto Art 3006 River Rd Hopewell, Va 23860 (804)452-1540 Bjay65@msn.com Posts: 77 | From: Hopewell, Virginia | Registered: Mar 2002
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