Does any one know the story / history of the Com Pac Logo, The "C" with what looks like 3 arrows pointing to the center of the "C" ?
Glenn
Hi glenn, my 1975 cp16 logo has "hutch sailing yachts" in the circle, I don't know when the logo changed, but Im sure the answer is here somewhere, ok owners soundoff BILL
Hi Bill,
may be we will hear from Gerry Hutch ( Hutchinson ?) on this ?
OK, here is the answer from Gerry himself !
Our first model, what ultimately became known as the Com-Pac 16, was originally called The Com-Pac Yacht. Com-Pac is a play on the word "compact". The idea was that the feel and look of a large yacht was compacted into a 16' yacht. We did not want to use a common word spelling in our name so we corrupted the spelling to Com-Pac. It sounds the same but is not the common spelling. Actually, the Pac part came from the once famous Trans-Pacific or Trans-Pac sailboat race.
The "C" is the first letter and the arrows are to indicate an implosion.
Big to small, compact. That's it.
Gerry
Quote from: Glenn on September 26, 2007, 03:29:14 PM
OK, here is the answer from Gerry himself !
Our first model, what ultimately became known as the Com-Pac 16, was originally called The Com-Pac Yacht. Com-Pac is a play on the word "compact". The idea was that the feel and look of a large yacht was compacted into a 16' yacht. We did not want to use a common word spelling in our name so we corrupted the spelling to Com-Pac. It sounds the same but is not the common spelling. Actually, the Pac part came from the once famous Trans-Pacific or Trans-Pac sailboat race.
The "C" is the first letter and the arrows are to indicate an implosion.
Big to small, compact. That's it.
Gerry
How apropos - very cool - I love it!
Some see the arrows inside of the C on the logo as a prop on a shaft. Not too appropriate for a sailboat.
idouglas
If it doesn't look like a power boat, smell like a power boat or sound like a power boat, it ain't a power boat regardless of the "C".
Gil
Sounds good but I could do without a boat implosion! Singularities, Black holes and dark matter are all fine for physicists and astronomers. I just hope his definition doesn't explain the Bermuda triangle! Kaboom! pocket yacht.
Rick