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Next thing I have to figure out is how to take the old name off.

Assuming it's the self stick vinyl, a hair dryer usually works.

Great . That looks like an easy fix ! Merci

I am probably out on a limb here but this just sort of evolved - when I put the boat under the cover last fall I removed the flip seat and brought it inside because I wanted to put the name on it. I have several artists in the family and I felt that they could do a really cool job with their airbrushes etc. Well they have all left town and I am faced with taking my design to a vinyl shop - but the seat is a multi-dimensional surface and the vinyl would not "stretch" in all the dimensions - or paint it untalented myself. I have covered it with masking, sprayed the masking with adhesive and put the design onto that. The design was made up using a combination of Photoshop and the output of the BoatsUS web site. A skill knife was used to cut out the letters and the underlying masking (and had to recover the portions to be painted a different color). I am at the point of painting and plan to use several high quality automotive touch up cans. I certain invite criticism and comment before I go further. I know I can not achieve an airbrushed effect, it will now be simply black with red highlights.

It may be too late, but you can get nearly any effect you like, including even an airbrush-like design, from one or more of the boat lettering companies mentioned above.

Also, if you have a big motor as most of us do, the back of the captain's seat is pretty well blocked from aft when the motor's up; & even when the motor's down the seat is so narrow, unless our boat name is only two or three letters, they'll be too small to read from more than a boatlength or two away, making the whole exercise moot. That's why most of us opted for names on the sides of the boat.

If you don't care that nobody will be able to see or read your boat name, go for it.