Putting boat name on a new tender.

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I have probably seen every possible example.

Name daubed across the bottom by a tame elephant with a brush, burnt into the transom, neat permanent marker pen (an example of which I am yet to find), name scrawled in shakey writing bow, stern, sides, transfers etc etc and rarely a common location.

I recognise that if a thief really wants it they will just take it much like locking washboards, a screwdriver and a bit of violence will access most yachts, but given a choice I’d rather they pinched yours rather than mine at say a town quay.

Only joking :encouragement::encouragement::encouragement:

What do you do that’s both neat and potentially the best deterrent?

Yes, I know. Chain it to a cleat.
 
Funky Monkey do some lettering for tenders, other suppliers are available.

If you can find some chaps in full combat frogman gear I find the other issue is solved.
 
Mine is neither neat nor the best deterrent, but it is the laziest, as is my wont. I use a permanent marker pen and write it as neatly as I can be bothered. It will come off with white spirit but fulfils the requirements of places such as Salcombe which require dinghies to be marked.
 
I got some pre-cut pre-spaced vinyl lettering with "permanent" adhesive and just stuck it on the transom. It's very neat. But I know that identifying a tender won't stop it getting nicked.
 
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It hadn't even occurred to me that labelling the dinghy would be a theft deterrent. I mostly rely on the fact that it's relatively small with a 2hp engine that would be no fun for joyriding, with a big patch on the bow tube - that and the fact that dinghy theft doesn't seem to be a major problem in most places I land.

Beyond that I have an old mizzen shroud (3mm 9x19 or thereabouts) and two padlocks - one end locks to the outboard clamps and the other to a cleat, and it's long enough for the dinghy to lie off the quay in a considerate manner, not chained tight alongside. Never yet bothered to rig it, though.

Pete
 
About 17 years ago when we for the boat we bought an Achilles inflatable dinghy and outboard off someone else on the lake. It had the boats name roughly painted on the bow and both sides.

I used ordinary black gloss paint to paint a rectangle over the name and when dry painted our boat name on in white gloss using a stencil I had printed off. I re-did it this year for the first time this year.

If I was doing it again I would try and get some self adhesive stencil paper as I hand rather too much run. I only had grey paint for the the lettering which unfortunately looks like I went to some effort to be tasteful with the choice of colour as is it is the same colour grey as the dinghy.

We use a chain and padlock to secure it.
 
Akin to putting luggage labels on your holiday bags, writing the name of your boat on a tender tells tea leafs what house/boat is unoccupied.

Rarely a problem but one Im unlikely to test.......

On our travels, we make sure the dinghy engine is locked and a long plastic coated wire with loops at each end sorts out locking the tender to the dock.
 
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Hi

Depends upon the tender, if it’s a solid construction such as GRP then you coul do what I have done, order up an engraved plastic nameplate from a company such as ‘signomatic’ and fixed it on the transom with a combination of ‘No more nails’ and pop- rivets.
If it’s an inflatable , there is a special paint made for inflatables, which is one hell of a job to remove.
 
Praxinoscope said:
If it’s an inflatable , there is a special paint made for inflatables, which is one hell of a job to remove.
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PVC paint, sold for inflatables, wipes off with acetone. Insurers usually require boat name on tenders, as do other countries so some use use registration no. instead to avoid perps knowing the boat is most likely unattended. We also chain and lock wherever possible.
 
capnsensible said:
Akin to putting luggage labels on your holiday bags, writing the name of your boat on a tender tells tea leafs what house/boat is unoccupied.
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The obvious solution is to put the name of someone else's boat on the tender ....................
 
prv said:
...with a big patch on the bow tube
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What an excellent idea... I may well affix a patch to my brand new dinghy, just to devalue the boat to thieves.



capnsensible said:
On our travels, we make sure the dinghy engine is locked and a long plastic coated wire with loops at each end sorts out locking the tender to the dock.
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This is our approach - and, for periods when we're rowing the dinghy, rather than using the outboard, we've fixed to the wire to the dinghy using a D-shackle with hexagonal pin. Would probably be even better (i.e. knife-proof) if we made a fixing to the transom.
 
Graham376 said:
PVC paint, sold for inflatables, wipes off with acetone. Insurers usually require boat name on tenders, as do other countries so some use use registration no. instead to avoid perps knowing the boat is most likely unattended. We also chain and lock wherever possible.
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I don’t know what the previous owners used on one of my old Avons but I have yet to find something that will get it off, I’m a bit cautious about using acetone on inflatables, it might be OK on hypalon but I would hesitate to use it on some other materials, of course if someone who had knicked my tender and they used a solvent that damaged the tube ‘what a shame’.
 
Praxinoscope said:
I’m a bit cautious about using acetone on inflatables, it might be OK on hypalon but I would hesitate to use it on some other materials, of course if someone who had knicked my tender and they used a solvent that damaged the tube ‘what a shame’.
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I've used acetone on pvc countless times over the years and had no problems whatsoever.
 
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