Naming tender (Applying name to tender that is)

[robpoulter]

How do you apply a boat name to an inflatable tender? On my last multiply patched up one I just wrote it on with permanent marker each season. I now have a nice new plastimo inflatable and would like a slightly neater job. I have seen patches (presumably glued on), but have no idea where I would get one.
Any ideas gratefully received

Rob

 

[VicS]

You can get the special paint to paint it an from Polymarine Letterflex for PVC.

Also Stencils

 

[John_Mackay]

Try www.funkymonkeydesign.co.uk Just stuck name on my inflatable with PVC lettering designed for ribs etc.

 

[VicS]

There is also csail' s offer to consider http://www.ybw.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=ym&Number=1818460

 

[shmoo]

There was a thread a little while back that made me think about the security issue of painting "TT Saucy Sue" on the tender, then leaving it unattended on the quay while you spend an evening ashore, in that you are advertising your absence from Saucy Sue.

I am pondering this question just now, and may end up putting boat's call sign on the tender, on the basis that anyone really needing to know our name can easily get it from that. (Its also many fewer letters!)

 

[rays]

Just about to raise a similar question. We have just acquired new Plastimo tender and have two questions: 1) What do peolpe use to stop it being nicked (ours hangs from davits). 2) The sense ,or otherwise, of putting mother vessel name on the tender. Does anyone mark the tender with postcode,or other method of identifying it? It does have a seriel number but the plate can easily be taken off.
CD

 

[Gwylan]

Our insurance company insists that we have our boat name on the tender. But the security thing is a growing issue.

 

[Chris_Robb]

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Try www.funkymonkeydesign.co.uk Just stuck name on my inflatable with PVC lettering designed for ribs etc.

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Funcky monkey will also sell you the special paint for an inflatable along with the templates for painting it on. I am not sure transfers will last - the paint certainly does. Nice guy to deal with too

 

[RobBrown]

I put T/T and the boat SSR on the transom and the boat name only on the dinghy underside- so not normally visible when tender in use, but name there to help relocate if it wanders off!

 

[robpoulter]

Thanks for all the replies, I like the SSR idea for the above reasons, but name underneath is also a great idea.

Rob