Arwen's meanderings

Hi everyone and welcome to my dinghy cruising blog about my John Welsford designed 'navigator' named Arwen. Built over three years, Arwen was launched in August 2007. She is a standing lug yawl 14' 6" in length. This blog records our dinghy cruising voyages together around the coastal waters of SW England.
Arwen has an associated YouTube channel so visit www.YouTube.com/c/plymouthwelshboy to find our most recent cruises and click subscribe.
On this blog you will find posts about dinghy cruising locations, accounts of our voyages, maintenance tips and 'How to's' ranging from rigging standing lug sails and building galley boxes to using 'anchor buddies' and creating 'pilotage notes'. I hope you find something that inspires you to get out on the water in your boat. Drop us a comment and happy sailing.
Steve and Arwen

Wednesday, 23 February 2011

...other boats have a logo.......so........maybe......?

Logos! There has been a small debate – a few posts really about having a sail emblem for navigators on John’s yahoo forum. John has a small compass north arrow with an N on it on his plans for navigator – I quite like it. Then Steve (another Steve, not me) came along asking if he could play about with it and his daughter did a very nice design.......and then I copied that and then tried to amalgamate elements of John’s original design into it....and well, I quite like it – I think!




I could see it on the sails – white logo on Tan sails – rather like the emblems on Cornish shrimpers. It would be relatively unknown and get people thinking! All I have to do is now check with Stephen, his daughter and John – because copyright is theirs.....and apart from which Stephen may have been wanting something unique to his navigator – which I fully understand, and his daughter came up with it (talented lady) and rightly so. But it has got me thinking and I need to ask John would he mind if I came up with a logo for Arwen? I’m slightly ambivalent but there is an excellent book about the navigator by Robert Ditterch.......so....maybe...a logo?

Steve

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