I have already tried digitising, for embroidery on caps, (1) the Coca-Cola-esqe script font ‘Bristol Channel Cutter’ that is used on the Sam L Morse Co website and (2) a diagram of a BCC, showing the distinctive hull and rigging.
I was unsuccessful. Embroidery aimed at the sizes that fits neatly on a baseball cap just doesn’t have the resolution to detail the rigging on a BCC or the swirls on the BCC cursive font. Silkscreen printing might be a better approach for those subjects.
I changed my target and tried again, aiming for the BCC sail logo (ie the circle with a big B and two small c). Being faithful to the original didn’t suit the aesthetics of a baseball cap. So I played with it a little and think I was reasonably successful in terms of space-filling and balance. It’s not brain surgery, of course. And your aesthetics might differ from mine.
If you are at the Lyle Hess tribute in San Francisco Bay (right about now), ask Roger for a look at one of his BCC 111 caps. If you are at the yard in Costa Mesa, ask Dick, Tom or James for a look at their ‘shipwright’ caps.
And if you want, I can attach to an e-mail a *.stx, which you can take along to most any embroidery shop and get them to modify the number to suit your hull, or to replace the sail number with your vessel name (please don’t reply to the group, send requesting e-mail direct to bilh@pd.jaring.my ).
An *.stx file is a modified *.gif (which means that you could strip its proprietary header, turning it into a *gif, and modify the hull number yourself - but I advise against that, because what looks symmetrically balanced on the monitor isn’t exactly what comes out of the embroidery machine - I’d recommend getting your embroidery shop to do the modification and to test the balance on a scrap of material); it’s one of the three or so v common embroidery formats, so most embroidery software can read it. The *.stx format is compact, so my bcc.stx is about 5K.
Cheers
Bil
BCC116
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