"from a close up view if your are hunting for it you will see trough the
vinyl the old raised letters"
Right and unless the boat is on the hard you can chase the viewers off by
firing up the diesel! Ha!
MMC
wrote in message
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"Unless the old letters are quite obvious, it ain't worth all that effort"

I agreed with you. Not having seen the boat, the transom and the
lettering it is a suggested approach.
In my case I just removed the lettering and placed the new vinyl lettering
over it.
It is best to trace the old name on tracing paper or its equivalent. Then
the lettering people can use it to match the size and spacing on their
computer screen to fit and cut the name on vinyl. By choosing the size
and type of letter you can cover most of the old raised old letters. Then
you put the new name on and peel the left over. The negative side of
this is from a close up view if your are hunting for it you will see
trough the vinyl the old raised letters. On the other hand who's cares.


"Dave" wrote in message
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:52:19 GMT, said:

Once the lettering are removing, as stated you will noticed raised
letters
where the area around the old letters were painted.
The only way to remove these raised old letters embedded in the gelcoat
is
to use sand paper providing your have enough gelcoat left on the transom

Start with wet sanding paper of 300 grits using water as a lubricant.
Then
use 400 grits and work your way up to 1200 grits.
Then you use a fine compound on all the transom.

Unless the old letters are quite obvious, it ain't worth all that effort.