Name Space on the Transom?

[kthoennes]

Good morning. Great that this forum is here, I think the other thread is right, this is about the most active Carver forum I've found, including that pay site. We bought a 1983 Carver 3207 a couple weeks ago on Lake Texoma. It was hauled out at a marina in Denison, Texas last week, they're going to do some clean-up work and shipping prep, and then we're having it trucked from Texas to Yankton, South Dakota.

Here's the question. We want to re-name the boat. Since the boat is still 700 miles away at the moment, we can't take the measurement ourselves. Does anybody know the measurement from the swim step to the rub rail, and from the ladder to the starboard side? In other words, the area we have available for the new name? I see some 3207 owners order the name too big or too long and it's obscured by the ladder, like this one:

http://www.planetyacht.com/detail.php?id=1852

We want to avoid that.

Thanks!

Karl Thoennes
Sioux Falls, SD

 

[Bob J]

Karl, I think I would wait until boat was in my possession in SD. You'll have to decide if you want any of the graphics behind the ladder or not. Can easily apply from swim platform while in the water. That's how I did mine; no problem !

 

[kthoennes]

Ach, you're probably right. Just too impatient. There are so many competing marinas on Lake Texoma that the service rates are petty reasonable, so we're trying to get as much work done there as possible before the boat "hits the road." (Once it gets to SD it's going to be trapped on Lewis & Clark Lake with only one full service marina and they can charge whatever they want.) Applying vinyl graphics is so easy though, you're right, better to measure the actual boat when it gets here.

 

[boatn]

I agree. The rates in Texas are attractive. But we had our vinyl graphics done by a local sign shop and the codt was very similar to the on-line services... and I had a chance to match the colors the way I wanted.