bit of a late post contribution to this thread but was waiting for a good pic to show the boat under sail

when bought, here on a small lake in mountain japan, my boat was just known as "the nacra"

26 years old, but little used, it looked like it would clean up well, but nothing could be done to improve the uv cracked factory stickers

with a long winter it was easy enough to decided to carefully copy, enlarge and hand paint the makers name and boat type direct to the hull

about then the white tiger's head, that the sailing anarchists came up for the flying tiger, caught my eye and because it was eye catching and could just be a few black blobs of paint on a white hull i decided to paint that on too

with a "face" for the boat it now needed a name to match and with the addition of some sunglasses on the tiger head we decided on "cool cat". easy to read, understand and pronounce in a non-english speaking country

mucking around on the computer things seemed to look best if they were as big as possible, so it was decided to put big tigers heads on the bow, move the factory stuff to the stern and the fill up in between with the name

masking and painting strait lines is too much work so fonts were searched until "chiller" was found on ms word

still looking for good ideas from other boats we flogged the red lettering on the mast from the f18 capricorn

very happy with the result, makes the 4 year old hobie 16 on the same beach look old fashioned:o)