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Thursday, April 25, 2002

Use silver leaf outlines for a very classy look! In this sample we removed the manufacturer logo and replace the new name. 9:15:50 AM     |  comments

My first sailboat was a Geary 18 named Blackbird. It's successor (same class, also a black hull) was 'Bird2. When we moved to a place where the nearest sailboat racing was 120 miles away, my next boat, a Y-Flyer, was naturally named Roadrunner (nicknamed Thirdbird). Next followed a tiny, tippy, Laser named (after the Peanuts' canary) Woodstock. Then another Laser with a purple hull, named Progne Subis (ornithological name for Purple Martin). My final boat, bought partly to interest my granddaughters in sailing, is my first keel boat, and it is the biggest of the flock. So the name BigBird seemed to be a natural. Although the graphics are intended to be 'warm and fuzzy,' there is a subtle message: on the port side Bigbird is looking aft--and waving goodbye to the rest of the fleet. Oh, by the way, BigBird's class racing spinnaker is green and named "Oscar the Grouch," and its bigger, blue, PHRF spinnaker is "Cookie Monster." 2:01:56 AM     |  comments

Once we had a boat that hit some power lines...we called it Short Circuit   1:51:06 AM     |  comments

Shes' Fine and he's Dandy.  This is a great example of how to use gold outlines and two different typefaces.  I like the name because of its play on their actual names.  He was Dan and she really was pretty fine! 1:36:02 AM     |  comments

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