Hi Mike,
I'm personally not a big fan of auto type emblems on boats, most are too small to see unless you're on the boat or right next to it.
I think that lightning bolts are universally understood to mean electric, and I like the trident thing. I might throw a couple of horizontal lightning bolts below the name of my boat and perhaps a small vertical trident between them. I would rather be subtle, I'm not one for shouting about my project.
If people are looking for a badge, then the crossed lightning bolts over a vertical trident sounds like decent heraldry (I do medieval re-creation stuff and have studied a bit about heraldry and coats of arms) So I would put crossed gold bolts over a silver trident on a field of blue. A round badge or sticker could be made that people could mount wherever they deem appropriate.
Fair winds,
Eric
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, Mike <biankablog@...> wrote:
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> I don't have much time to do a design right now so I'll just throw an idea out. Maybe someone else can come up with the design. I was thinking of big letters "E & P" which stands for Electric Propulsion and have a lighting bolt in there somewhere perhaps between, under or above the letters.
> Like I said just throwing it out there.
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> --- On Mon, 5/2/11, acsarfkram <acsarfkram@...> wrote:
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> From: acsarfkram <acsarfkram@...>
> Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] electric emblem
> To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, May 2, 2011, 2:59 PM
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> Hi Greg,
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> Your design looks good. It will be interesting to see what other designs people come up with.
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> "Let's get some electric boating spirit going!!!"
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> Right-on
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> Mark
> Santa Cruz
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> --- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "Greg Martin" <ffmagellan@> wrote:
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> > OK, I just created a new file folder: "Electric Boating Logo" and uploaded 3 files, the Electric Trident (crossed lightening bolt with trident), it is set as transparent but on a white background you can't see the lightening bolt so I also uploaded a file with my boat's logo on burgandy and a photo of a flag I had made with the logo. I had the flag made by the Sailbag Lady (www.sailbaglady.com), before I made the graphic on the computer, so it looks a little bit different. I like the lightening bolt in the graphic though since it's simple.
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> > If anyone wants to just send me their own boat logo that they want to splice on top of the Electric Trident, I can do that pretty easily with Adobe Illustrator and create a file you can put on a T-shirt. If you want to have your T-shirt (or hat, bags, decals, etc. or flag?) made, we also have a Spreadshirt.com store:
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> > http://337404.spreadshirt.com/
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> > My crew and I have ordered a few shirts from here already and they turned out really good. The price is marked up from production cost by $5 to pay for the store.
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> > Whether you like this design or not, please upload your ideas to the Electric Boat Logo folder, it would be really cool to see what everyone else has. Also, whatever design you have, please add it to the Spreadshirt store. We need more designs. Let's get some electric boating spirit going!!!
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> > Keep it charged!
> > -Greg
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> > --- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "Greg Martin" <ffmagellan@> wrote:
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> > > Hello everyone,
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> > > This is something I've actually put some thought into and came up with something. Maybe I'm a total nerd, but I really thought when I went electric I just had to design a new "battle ensign" for my boat. The old battle ensign (naval war flag) was a green dogfish, sort of a cartoon shark. When the boat went electric, I updated the old design with a crossed lightening bolt and trident underneath. Of course, the lightening bolt signifies electric and the trident is a traditonal symbol of sea power and/or knowledge. It's Neptune's trident, so you can't go wrong. I looked all over the internet for a lightning bolt and trident to plagiarize but couldn't find one I liked so I figured out how to use Adobe Illustrator and just made my own. I spent a few afternoons getting the proportions just right and then saved it as a transparent vector image (.png) so it can be used on T-shirts and other graphics. The crossed lightening bolt and trident underneath the
> Intrepid "dogfish" of course is my own boat's unique battle ensign, like every true pirate has to have their own pirate flag- not the one you buy at Disney Land (Remember the last scene in the last Pirates of the Carribbean?) ...but if anyone else wants to adapt it and put their own boat logo/ manufacturer logo/ anything you want over the crossed lightening bolt and trident, maybe that could be our symbol of common "electric boat brotherhood" what do you think? I'll attach the files and I hereby relinquish all intellectual property rights.
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> > > -Greg
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> > > --- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "acsarfkram" <acsarfkram@> wrote:
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> > > > Hi Mike,
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> > > > When I was Sailing today with the spinnaker flying I thought about having a big lightning bolt sewn into it :-)
> > > >
> > > > Mark
> > > > Santa Cruz
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> > > > --- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, Michael Walther <michawalth3@> wrote:
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> > > > > Hi Mark, Many times I've seen a lightening bolt used to indicate electric or electricity. Thanks, Mike
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> > > > > --- On Sun, 5/1/11, acsarfkram <acsarfkram@> wrote:
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> > > > > > From: acsarfkram <acsarfkram@>
> > > > > > Subject: [Electric Boats] electric emblem
> > > > > > To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
> > > > > > Date: Sunday, May 1, 2011, 5:18 PM
> > > > > > Anyone have any thoughts on an
> > > > > > Electric emblem for an electric boat? I'd like to have a
> > > > > > metal "ELECTRIC" insignia. I've looked online for one and
> > > > > > haven't come up with much. It might be nice to come up with
> > > > > > a standard emblem for all of us.
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> > > > > > Mark
> > > > > > Santa Cruz
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