RCE wrote:


With the beautiful work you are doing on your boat, have you considered
having the quarterboards engraved rather than using vinyl letters?

RCE

www.eisboch.com


I prefer the vinyl letters, personally. They are more legible than
letters routed in. To read routed letters at all you really need to
paint them, and that introduces additional work and maintenance. We
letter the quarterboards, the port and starboard life rings, and the
transom, and we use the same green that we use in the whale stripe and
boot stripe as the basic letter, shadowed by gold for additional
contrast and legibility. Picking up the stripe color in the graphics is
a nice, decorative touch, and maintaining a consistency with the
letters on the life rings and on the quarterboards enhances the overall
appearance, (IMO).