Personal Boat Cards

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golftrek

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Fluid Motion Model
C-248 C
Vessel Name
Banjo
We would like to get some boat cards to give to fellow boaters we meet will cruising with our names, contact info etc. We would like to get a card with an outline drawing of a Ranger Tug. Anyone know of any sources?

Thanks, Jo Ann and Jim
Banjo
2008 R25
 
We used Vista Print for our boat cards. They are very inexpensive, sometimes free and do a nice job. We e-mailed a photo of our boat with the Statue of Liberty behind it, with our boat name, 27' Ranger Tug, our names, address, phone numbers, e-mail address, and TugNuts website. You do the setup online and its pretty easy. I'm sure there are others but we have had good luck with Vista Print.
 
We did ours right on our computer using the setup from Avery Labels. It worked out pretty well. We also were able to insert a picture of our boat onto the card. We have our cell numbers and Blog URL.
 
When Slackwater Jack (tug owner here) did some enhancement on one of our images, we used it for Christmas cards, boat cards, and note/thank you cards...

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We used VistaPrint for those, but I also make small run cards with Photoshop and get them printed at any local photofinishing outlet.

Best wishes,
Jim B.
 
We were looking for a line drawing as well. If you fine a source or artist please let us know.
 
We made up ours on the computer too,

For line art many of the photo programs will convert a photo to line art ,results are sometimes mixed but its forth a try
 
Wow, that is a beauty! Is that what the original Willie's Tug looked like?
 
I think I still have the original artwork for the R-21 classic and EC, so I should be able to change the boat color (green, blue, white, or....)
PM me if you want.
 
Original Poster here. What I have done is do my own black and white pen and ink drawing of an R 25 using the drawings in the manual as a template and a ruler. Actually looks pretty good. I plan to reduce it and put it on my card. I will try to post a picture once it is done if it turns out OK.

Jo Ann
Banjo
R 25
 


This is the line drawing I made of Banjo. We took the drawing to Staples and had boat cards made and we think they turned out very nice.

Jo Ann
Banjo R28
 
Here's something else to think about...

After June and I had accumulated a stack of boat cards from the folks we'd met along the way, we came to the realization that we knew what their boats looked like -- what we couldn't remember was what the people looked like!

So when we had our own boat cards made by Vista Print, the picture we used was of the two of us standing in the cockpit of our Ranger Tug 29.

Since the dullest pencil or the worst picture is better than my memory, I always appreciate boat cards with pictures of the people on them. There aren't many, as the standard seems to be using a picture of the boat. But ask yourself which you'd rather have to look at when you're trying to remember someone you met last year - a card with a picture of their boat or a card with a picture of them on their boat?

My two cents...
 
We've accumulated a great number of boat cards, some with boat photo's or renderings, some with the owners photo and yet others with the owners standing next to or on their transom. Maybe it's me but no matter what the boat card I recall the boat name first almost every time. To help jog my memory about the owners I've made it a practice to write on the back of each card where I met the people and a date, it helps me anyway.


Jim F
 
Many great ideas! I hadn't thought about our names and faces but as one who is poor with names it would be helpful to at least write that information on the back of the card.

Thanks, everyone!
 
Everyone wants something different. We wanted a line drawing instead of a picture because we wanted the card very clean and uncluttered. We find that cards with a photo can be too busy and hard to read. We will be using the cards for some business related things so we did not want it too personal. We do not want our pictures on the card--makes it too personal but others feel differently.

Jo Ann
Banjo
 
I think boat cards are very beneficial and will be asking my Daughter #1 to design ours. Along with personal data I will include a small photo of Gill and me on the front and a nice photo of our R-25 running at speed on the backside. We will use the cards just for handing to other boaters and especially other TugNuts we meet.

I've been meaning to get this done for some years now, so thanks for the reminder. 🙂
 
Here's what my Daughter #1 Graphic Artist and UX Specialist designed for us... Hopefully will have them ready for the Fisherman's Terminal meeting this coming weekend.

Mind you, I need Daughter to add our boat's name LAXEY and my TugNuts forum member name "BAZ" to front side as well. 🙂

Front
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Back
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Wow, that is a very nice card!

With your ideas and your daughter's skill you have done a nice job of showing us who you two are as well as giving us a visual of your fine looking boat 😀

Good job all around!
 
Ditto! Nice to lay eyes on you, Barry!
 
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