Com Pac Logo ?

[Glenn Basore]

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

[B.Hart]

  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

[Glenn Basore]

Hi Bill,

may be we will hear from Gerry Hutch ( Hutchinson ?) on this ?

[Glenn Basore]

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

[fiddlerami]

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! 

[idouglas]

Some see the arrows inside of the C on the logo as a prop on a shaft.  Not too appropriate for a sailboat.

idouglas

[Gil Weiss]

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

[Rick Klages]

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