Association Burgees
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 8:12 pmA little while ago, Dennis mentioned the potential for an Association burgee. I think that's an excellent idea.
I've just had a 1yd sewn ensign made by
http://easyflags.co.uk/shop/
The quality is superb and the price was excellent. They would be prepared to give us a price for a printed burgee using the Association logo. They do burgees in a 3:2 ratio, so a 1ft tall one would be 18 inches long. They'd need a copy of the artwork to assess the type of printing needed of course. Are we able to use that without infringing any copyright issues? Would we need to approach Bob at HM - having spoken many times with him I can't see him being the type of chap to object or being anything like as precious about it as the owners of a certain trade-name referring to the other type of boat Bob builds so well
I'd imagine we'd probably have to stick to one colour - say dark blue, like the usual hull colour (sorry Dennis
) with white printing, unless alternatives are possible.
A rectangular burgee would also allow for the Association name including which would advertise the actual type of boat to those who don't recognise them. I'll have to ask whether printing on both sides is possible without the shadow being obvious from the far side as it were. I don't think it would be a problem with a dark coloured fabric.
As there's be an initial outlay, I'd suggest perhaps making them available to members only for the time being as it might be easier to gauge possible demand.
Any opinions? What sort of price would be acceptable do you think? What size? And how many as an order 25, 35, 50? They'd be provided on an at cost basis to the members anyway.
Steve
PS - Dennis, if you want to, please open this discussion up to the member's section
I've just had a 1yd sewn ensign made by
http://easyflags.co.uk/shop/
The quality is superb and the price was excellent. They would be prepared to give us a price for a printed burgee using the Association logo. They do burgees in a 3:2 ratio, so a 1ft tall one would be 18 inches long. They'd need a copy of the artwork to assess the type of printing needed of course. Are we able to use that without infringing any copyright issues? Would we need to approach Bob at HM - having spoken many times with him I can't see him being the type of chap to object or being anything like as precious about it as the owners of a certain trade-name referring to the other type of boat Bob builds so well
I'd imagine we'd probably have to stick to one colour - say dark blue, like the usual hull colour (sorry Dennis
) with white printing, unless alternatives are possible.
A rectangular burgee would also allow for the Association name including which would advertise the actual type of boat to those who don't recognise them. I'll have to ask whether printing on both sides is possible without the shadow being obvious from the far side as it were. I don't think it would be a problem with a dark coloured fabric.
As there's be an initial outlay, I'd suggest perhaps making them available to members only for the time being as it might be easier to gauge possible demand.
Any opinions? What sort of price would be acceptable do you think? What size? And how many as an order 25, 35, 50? They'd be provided on an at cost basis to the members anyway.
Steve
PS - Dennis, if you want to, please open this discussion up to the member's section
- I'll get a price for a smaller version as Michel suggests. At a smaller size we could probably drop the lettering as it would be too small to read way up there near the masthead.
Next thing is does anyone out there have a copy of it as a vector diagram? Apparently that's best for using to make the print 
