"Bruce in Bangkok" wrote in message
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On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:45:14 -0500, cavelamb
wrote:

Capt. JG wrote:
Do any of use labels for items like mainsheet, traveller, etc.? I find
that
when I'm teaching it's easier for beginning students to get a clew if
they
can read what's in front of them. I've been using my old Brother
P-touch,
but the labels fade pretty quickly. Suggestions welcome.

Jonathan


On my new boat, the jib sheets are the same color - and so is the main
sheet!

D wanted me to replace them all with different colored ones like we had on
the
18 so she could quickly find the right line.

While labels and colors may be helpful at first, I wonder if, in the end,
the
practice is more restrictive than helpful.


I use different color lines but the colors aren't intended to mean
anything special. There are two red lines and one blue in the cockpit
- P & SB jib sheets and main sheet. Seems to work on my boat but where
a boat has all lines led back to the cockpit I have seen labels at the
cleats or clutches. some boats have those slick black "name tag"
labels. the ones where you engrave the words and they show up in
white.

Cheers,

Bruce in Bangkok
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)


I'm looking for the device that makes the labels that don't fade. There are
two that I've found on the web... one's called DYMO MarinePro. Decent price
of $50. The other is a metal label for double that.


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"Capt. JG" wrote in message
easolutions...
e micro-bus. lol

Umm... yes, I got the first reference... but what if you have a canoe
stern?

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Dunno. I have a round stern. My boat has a flat one, though. :-D

"KLC Lewis" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in message
easolutions...
e micro-bus. lol

Umm... yes, I got the first reference... but what if you have a canoe
stern?

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Dunno. I have a round stern. My boat has a flat one, though. :-D



I had a student last summer who was, to be impolite, fat. I mean rotund.
Nice guy. Anyway, the center requires a swim test, which he did, but had
trouble climbing out. When he got out he said, "Hey, I'm in shape! Round.
That's a shape right?" Everyone laughed.

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"Capt. JG" wrote in
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Do any of use labels for items like mainsheet, traveller, etc.? I find
that when I'm teaching it's easier for beginning students to get a
clew if they can read what's in front of them. I've been using my old
Brother P-touch, but the labels fade pretty quickly. Suggestions
welcome.

Jonathan

I have 2 Brother P-touches. The older one that I have at home uses TZ
style labels, and for some reason those don't fade. Some labels that I put
on the clutches over 10 years ago are still very readable, and that
includes years in the Caribbean sun. The other one, which uses some other
style, fades rapidly.

-- Geoff
www.GeoffSchultz.org

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:29:18 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

I've been using my old Brother P-touch,
but the labels fade pretty quickly. Suggestions welcome.

I bet they still make the Dymo, a daisywheel punch that imprints 1/4
inch plastic strips.

Casady

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:02:04 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

"Bubba" wrote in message ...
A sharpie works very well. It will fade, but you can re-do it, and it'll
fade so when you no longer want it, it's gone. They use this method on the
AC boats early in the campaigns.


"Capt. JG" wrote in message
.. .
Do any of use labels for items like mainsheet, traveller, etc.? I find
that when I'm teaching it's easier for beginning students to get a clew
if they can read what's in front of them. I've been using my old Brother
P-touch, but the labels fade pretty quickly. Suggestions welcome.

Jonathan


Not sure if I want to write on my gelcoat.... I suppose that would work.
Maybe I can find some who can print more legibly than I.

I doubt shellac will attack gel coat. So write over a patch of that.

Casady

On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:14:59 -0500, Richard Casady
wrote:

I've been using my old Brother P-touch,
but the labels fade pretty quickly. Suggestions welcome.

I bet they still make the Dymo, a daisywheel punch that imprints 1/4
inch plastic strips.

They do. I keep one on my boat for labeling things and they hold up
very well. Not as high tech as a P-Touch but very inexpensive and
durable. I think all of the big office supply chains carry them.

"Richard Casady" wrote in message
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On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:02:04 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

"Bubba" wrote in message ...
A sharpie works very well. It will fade, but you can re-do it, and it'll
fade so when you no longer want it, it's gone. They use this method on
the
AC boats early in the campaigns.


"Capt. JG" wrote in message
.. .
Do any of use labels for items like mainsheet, traveller, etc.? I find
that when I'm teaching it's easier for beginning students to get a clew
if they can read what's in front of them. I've been using my old
Brother
P-touch, but the labels fade pretty quickly. Suggestions welcome.

Jonathan


Not sure if I want to write on my gelcoat.... I suppose that would work.
Maybe I can find some who can print more legibly than I.

I doubt shellac will attack gel coat. So write over a patch of that.

Casady


Yeah, but my printing sucks.


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"Geoff Schultz" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in
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Do any of use labels for items like mainsheet, traveller, etc.? I find
that when I'm teaching it's easier for beginning students to get a
clew if they can read what's in front of them. I've been using my old
Brother P-touch, but the labels fade pretty quickly. Suggestions
welcome.

Jonathan

I have 2 Brother P-touches. The older one that I have at home uses TZ
style labels, and for some reason those don't fade. Some labels that I
put
on the clutches over 10 years ago are still very readable, and that
includes years in the Caribbean sun. The other one, which uses some other
style, fades rapidly.

-- Geoff
www.GeoffSchultz.org


Thanks. I was wondering about the TZ labels. I've heard they're better.

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"Richard Casady" wrote in message
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On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:29:18 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

I've been using my old Brother P-touch,
but the labels fade pretty quickly. Suggestions welcome.

I bet they still make the Dymo, a daisywheel punch that imprints 1/4
inch plastic strips.

Casady


They make the aluminum/stainless strip dymo.

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