| What were your favorite trophies? #15489 01/18/03 11:33 AM 01/18/03 11:33 AM |
Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 273 Key Largo, FL MaryAWells OP
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Posts: 273 Key Largo, FL | This the time of year to be thinking about what kind of trophies your fleet is going to have for its home regatta this coming season. There have been so many great, unique trophies over the years. What are YOUR favorite trophies? The ones you don't throw away. The ones you display. It would be nice to share a lot of old trophy ideas that worked well, to give everybody ideas for this year. Or maybe you have ideas that have not yet been tried.
Mary A. Wells
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#15493 01/21/03 11:27 AM 01/21/03 11:27 AM |
Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 744 Bob_Curry
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Posts: 744 | Mary, I can't resist this one..... The one's with 1st place on them!! ......hehehehe Bob
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#15494 01/21/03 11:47 AM 01/21/03 11:47 AM |
Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 273 Key Largo, FL MaryAWells OP
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Posts: 273 Key Largo, FL | Bob, you are SUCH a big help. I am starting to feel like your straight man. But you're right. I should have worded it so it did not sound like they had to be trophies that people had actually won, because probably lots of people have never even won a trophy yet.
What I am looking for is good trophy ideas based on ones people have seen or have made or purchased for regattas. Most regattas operate on a very tight budget, so it is hard to keep coming up with unique, creative, and INEXPENSIVE trophies.
Mary A. Wells
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#15497 01/22/03 04:26 PM 01/22/03 04:26 PM |
Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 805 Gainesville, FL 32607 USA dacarls
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Posts: 805 Gainesville, FL 32607 USA | My Fleet 153 favorites include my design of- Florida cypress knees (practically free) sliced long ways on a band saw, then decoupaged with epoxy then add a picture. What works really well for that is "Creative Xerography": 1. xerox a drawing onto a sheet of 3M overhead projector film. 2. then stick that xerox onto fresh epoxy (push out bubbles). 3. peel it off later, and the writing sticks to the epoxy. 4. a thin coat of epoxy, and you are done, even colored pix work well. 5. Do really nice professional-looking tags the same way, by copying your printed page with all the 1,2,3 etc. places BACKWARDS onto the xerox sheet (do it twice). Then spray paint the BACK side, over the writing with gold paint. One or 2 pages makes all of your tags, so cut them up, glue them on, and our cost was near zero. Note that metal tags are now 25 cents per letter-- No Way Jose!
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#15498 01/29/03 12:16 PM 01/29/03 12:16 PM |
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Posts: 217 | When I first started sailing, in late 80's, the Prindle Fleet in San Antonio (yes, there were actually Prindle fleets!) put on a regatta called the "Prindle Classic". They got sponsorship from a local beer distributor (kegs of Foster's), but the real highlight was the trophies. Stained glass, 12" high models of catamarans - and they weren't flat pictures, but real 3D scale models. One year, I won, and I still display those trophies - the skipper trophy in my office at work, and crew trophy at home on the mantle. The dedication of the fleet members who made those trophies was remarkable. Some of those original fleet members still sail, but sadly, the fleet is but a shadow of its former past. I'll post a photo when I get a chance. It really is a beautiful trophy.
Jim Casto NACRA 5.5 & NACRA 5.7 Austin TX Lake Travis
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#15501 01/30/03 11:08 AM 01/30/03 11:08 AM |
Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 1,307 Asuncion, Paraguay Luiz
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Posts: 1,307 Asuncion, Paraguay | First choice: Hardware.
Second choice: My wife's favorite - I don't know if this would be inexpensive in the US, but it is around here:
In the begining of the season (or many seasons), order a great quantity of very elegant custom made plates with a nice photo of a cat and the name of the club/organization printed on it.
The plates are all the same, but for each race, wooden supports engraved with the name of the race and position are ordered and distributed with the plates as prizes.
If you manage to win enough races, you will get a complete set and can invite your friends to have dinner in your trophies!
This helped convince wifes to participate and, once they get the first plate, to keep coming. It helps to give a tropy to each participant in the first race...
For the next season, you change the size of the plate, until you run out of sizes (probably four years) then you change the photo and start again.
Cheers
Luiz
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