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I Got A Name!

We finally got the name on the boat! We put the name on from the dock. but had to use the dinghy to change the hailing port on the stern.

 We picked the boat name in June 2017 and used it when we registered the boat with the US Coast Guard. The Coast Guard registration states that the registration is not valid unless the boat name and hailing port specified in the registration documents are appropriately visible on the boat hull. Well, we were originally going to get a local artisan who specializes in this sort of thing to apply the lettering and some graphics to do the work. After a few months of phone tag and being no closer to getting it done, that idea fell by the wayside, with no new plan replacing it. And it's no big deal unless you get stopped by the Coast Guard for a boat inspection. For all I know, it's no big deal even then.

Two years later, I got tired of being nervous every time a USCG boat was in sight, and hunted for an online boat lettering supply. BoatUS, the boat equivalent of AAA, has lettering cheap, using online tool to make the order. I gave it a shot, and days later my boat name and hailing port lettering arrived.

A little hull cleaning, measuring, applying blue painter's tape, sticking, rubbing, and peeling, and we now have our boat name on the both starboard and port sides. Using the dinghy and cleaning off the old San Francisco, CA, we applied our new port, Carson City, NV, to the stern.




A little bit of heat gun and a little scraping and the old hailing port came off. Some wiping with acetone and we are ready for new lettering.

Mission complete. Note that the hailing port doesn't have to be an actual port. Still, Carson City (the county) does have some Lake Tahoe shoreline.




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