Project 1 - The Name

I've mentioned to a few people that I think naming a boat is more difficult than picking a name for a child.

I think that a boat name reflects the personality and dreams of its owners and the character of the boat.    

In addition to the name, one has to choose a font style, the size of the font, the colour and where on the boat to position the name.

After much debate we decided to stick with Trekker, a name that my parents used on their boats and that we named our Catalina 36 MkII.

Pat Sturgeon recommended Bill from the Original Sign Shoppe for the name.  Bill was very patient with us as we had him size out various fonts in lower case and upper case as we tried to fit the same font into the space we had available on the transom and at the bow.

As soon as Bill emailed me that the name was on the boat I drove down to have a look.  As I was taking a picture of the bow, my heart sank as I realized that the bottom of the name was aligned with the cove stripe rather than the middle as I had asked. 




I called him right away and he immediately agreed to remove and reapply the names in the position I had hoped.

He did a great job, and we love our new Trekker name!