The New Woody Boater Font. WECATCHEM Bold.
By now if you are a regular Woody Boater you have noticed a new font and look. Inspired by WECATCHEM and the original Chris Craft Factory font for the back of there boats. Or at least its what we would like to believe.
WECATCHEM in the early 50’s. Note the name is in Aluminum
Hull card, note in yellow. Under it says ALUMINUM
According to the pixlelated film clip above and hull card it does appear the same and according to the original owners NEVER was changed, just done over the original type. So we decided to borrow the look as the new old official Woody Boater font.
Have any of you had the same experience. And fonts or names from the factory? Even photos of the name as from the factory?
WECATHEM? Seriously I know you guys aren’t spelling freaks but this is your Boat’s freaking name!!! I mean not once but every time?!?! I know – You haven’t had your Coffee yet! Well it’s a beautiful font!!
And if I’m understanding you correctly your nameplate was done in Aluminum? How was it applied? Like Gold Leaf? Or a paint? I’ve never heard of that. Is it still Aluminum? WECATCHEM sure looks at home there at your dock!!
HA, YOUCAUGHTIT! the typo as you were posting, You’re up early. I post early and fix live. Yup, that’s her name with the “C”, from the factory. Aluminum leaf is far better than silver leaf. Silver tarnishes. I used it on Sylvia and had to redo it after some time. It works beautifully as a color. I think the Chris Craft is also that way. One may also use White Gold I suppose. Regarding the name. The boat was purchased for fishing and has a very rare, if not the only factory built fishing tackle boxes. And since it was named at the factory, AND we live in the second largest fishing port in the US, It just felt like the right name. And of course the best is that its a spelling mess even spelled right. PERFECTION!
the Chris Craft leaf being put on. This we did in aluminum and it was great. One issue is after many coats of varnish it apears gold. But the aluminum is worth doing over.
Even her registration numbers will be in aluminum.
I can’t find that font in the Microsoft pulldown. How about Arial?
in reading the build sheet, i notice in extras they have listed as “bumpers” not fenders. or is this something else?
In modern terms, bumpers go on the dock, fenders on the boat. Maybe there wasn’t the same distinction in 1948, or perhaps the intern who typed up the hull card template for the printshop wasn’t very nautical.
So cool that you now have your own font! The boat looks great and fits just right on the lift and boat port.
Did I miss ??? Did we (it) get a new prop and shaft ???
Wilson we installed the new prop and checked the shaft on Friday and she runs perfect. No issues thanks to Jim Staib of Fine Wood Boats. We got about another 200 rpms out of the prop from the other one. I banged it out and filed the edges so we have a spare now if needed in an emergency.
The prop all installed.
We used the font from the 1938 cc catalog for our model, when putting the registration number put on the boat. That way there was no question about the style being historically period correct.
It should be “their boats” not “there boats” just had to point that out.
Jimmy
On Woody Boater their ain’t no mispelings
For those that want to generate fonts, we have used this for many years
http://cooltext.com/
You will find fonts that are close. But since they were all hand painted back then every one painted is going to be different from a little to a lot.