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Graphics!!

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jmorganste

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Yes I think Checkmate is a very good company, but they realy are getting left behind when it comes to the graphics options that the customer has to chose from. They say they are a custom boat builder, then let the customer have his boat the way he wants it if he is willing to pay for it.
 
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Checkmate has many different colours you can choose from on your new boat. They may only have 3-4 different graphics packages, but with all the colours it does make your boat your own. I like the new ZT graphics...
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Checkmates may not be the fastest boats on the water, but they are the nicest looking!
 
If you take the time to talk to Kip at the Factory, you will realize the variety of choices you have. I racked my brains out for a couple of monthes trying to decide how to have my boat built. They may not offer unlimited graphics like some manufacturers, but I would bet that they are paint, not gel and if you want to go with paint, buy a white boat and have it painted. It cost me roughly 1200 bucks for hull graphics and about another grand for deck graphics if I wanted them, to get a good quality paint job on a hull and deck will start around five grand and I know someone who paind 35 grand for paint on a 32 foot boat. I would say Checkmate is better than most in their offerings
 
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Yeah, that is what I meant and how Bill explained it. I say there as approximatly 12-15 different colours, and there are 3-4 different places for the paint on the boat and 3-4 different packages. Lets see how my math is, and I will use 15 for easy purposes. 13(colours) times 4 (colours on boat) equals 52 different places for each colour and times that by 4 for the graphic options and that is around 208 different choices if I am not mistaken. If you ask me, you have many choices to choise from, but only the few exact patterns...

Checkmates may not be the fastest boats on the water, but they are the nicest looking!
 
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Most companies that have the radical graphics are using paint, Powerquest, Fountain, Marine Technology,Formula, all use paint.. Looks awesome, but.. it burns off.. Marine Technology builds million dollar cats, they transport the boats in winter un-shrunk wrapped because any rubbing will burn the paint off. With the gel graphics, it's easier to touch up, rub out, generally fix.. sometimes graphics get to personalized, to radical, then they get dated, hard to sell on the used market. The silent partner of our local Formula dealer just has a 380 Fastech painted locally, I heard $30,000... most places won't touch a boat for less than 10K...It's all a matter of what you want to spend.. speaking of graphics, I've got a sneak preview of Bills..will be posting them soon!
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Hey God, is that MitchT graphichs you are talking about. If so, I have seen some of his work and it looks awesome, although, I would never want painted graphics for the reasons we listed above. Isn' MitchT Grapghics up there by you?
 
Here is a sneak preview of the graphics on Bill's boat.


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Ok.... Is that really his boat or is that something you just dug up. What is with the football related sheet of somesort...
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Alrighty Then...

Checkmates may not be the fastest boats on the water, but they are the nicest looking!
 
Z it's Bill's dream boat. Go Pack!
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That is a boat Rick has in stock, my wife is a packer fan and since I had such a hard time making up my mind on graphics, Rick said he was going to have a Packer boat built for us, and there it is!
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I get it now... Nice
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Rick for doing that, LOL... GO PACKERS GO... NOT... Sorry about that but I had to
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Checkmates may not be the fastest boats on the water, but they are the nicest looking!
 
Heck no, there is ALWAYS room for improvement one way or another. Nobody is perfect. Oh... except for C-mate god
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Not unless tons of people complain to them, which is highly UNLIKELY or one of use buys Checkmate over soon which again is highly UNLIKELY, as we don't have a few million lying around to spend, so yeah, basically your right, we can't change Checkmate...

Checkmates may not be the fastest boats on the water, but they are the nicest looking!
 
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