Boat Wraps

Why wrap a boat instead of repaint it

A marine repaint or re-gelcoat is a slow, expensive, permanent commitment. A wrap is a fraction of the cost, it's reversible, and it goes on in days instead of weeks.

For a personal boat, that means a full color change — matte, gloss, color-shift, or a custom graphic across the hull — without touching the gelcoat underneath. When you sell the boat, the wrap comes off and the original finish is still there.

For a guide service, charter, or fishing team, the hull is a billboard every weekend it's on the lake. Sponsor logos, a team identity, a phone number people can read from the next dock over — the same brand surface logic that makes a wrapped work truck pay for itself, applied to a vessel that spends every summer weekend in front of an audience.

We've built our shop around commercial wrap work. Boats run on the same cast vinyl, the same laminate, and the same in-bay install standards — applied to a surface that takes more UV and more water than anything that drives on a road.

What we wrap on a boat

Full hull-side graphics

The headline boat wrap — printed graphics or a solid color change across both hull sides and the transom. Color changes, fade and color-shift effects, fishing-team livery, sponsor layouts. This is the surface people see from shore and from the next boat over.

Color-change wraps

Same idea as a vehicle color change: a solid or specialty film over the existing gelcoat to change the boat's color without paint. Matte, satin, gloss, and color-shift finishes — reversible, and easier on resale than a respray.

Name, registration & lettering

The smallest boat job and the one every vessel needs. Boat name, hailing port, and the state registration numbers, cut from cast vinyl. Clean, legal, and far sharper than hand-applied stick-on letters.

Accent and sponsor graphics

Partial coverage — accent stripes, a transom graphic, sponsor decals for a tournament boat, a logo package for a guide service. The entry point when a full hull wrap is more than the boat needs.

Boats we can wrap

Wake and ski boats, bass and fishing boats, center-console and bay boats, pontoons, jet skis and personal watercraft, and runabouts. If the surface is gelcoat or smooth fiberglass above the waterline, it takes vinyl.

What doesn't get wrapped: anything that lives below the waterline. Vinyl is an above-waterline surface treatment — the constantly-submerged bottom of the hull stays as-is. That's standard marine-wrap practice everywhere, not an IGX limitation. We wrap the topside the world actually sees.

Pricing by vessel

Boat wraps don't fit the half / three-quarter / full tiers we use on vehicles — a boat is priced by its size and how much of the hull you want covered. A jet ski or a name-and-registration job sits at the low end; a full graphic wrap on a large center-console or pontoon runs to the top. Most boat wraps land between $4,500 and $10,000+. See full starting prices →

The variables that move the number: overall length, how much of the hull is covered (lettering vs. accent vs. full graphics), surface complexity (rails, rub strakes, hardware to work around), and design scope.

Materials — cast vinyl built for sun and water

Boats take a harder environmental beating than road vehicles. A wrapped boat lives outdoors, sits in direct summer sun for full days, and gets splashed, washed, and sometimes stored on a trailer in the elements. The film has to be cast-grade or it won't survive a season.

• Premium Avery Dennison cast vinyl with matched laminate — our primary film, the same cast-grade material we install on every commercial wrap, backed by an up-to-6-year vinyl warranty.
• 3M cast vinyl when a job calls for it — for specific color, finish, or match needs.

We do not install calendered film on boats. Calendered vinyl shrinks and lifts under sustained UV and on the compound curves of a hull — exactly the conditions a boat lives in. Cast film and laminate, every time.

A note on real-world life: the warranty is on the film, but a boat that's trailered and stored under cover between trips will hold a wrap longer than one that bakes in the sun on a lift all season. UV and water exposure are the limiting factor on the water, the same way they are on a trailer that lives outdoors.

Full materials breakdown: /wraps/materials.

Surface prep is what makes a boat wrap hold

A wrap is only as good as the surface under it, and gelcoat is less forgiving than sheet metal. Boats arrive with wax, polish, oxidation, and old residue that vinyl will not stick to. Our prep removes all of it — wash, de-wax, and a solvent wipe down to clean gelcoat — and we work around or pull the hardware that gets in the way of a clean edge.

Then it goes on in our bay, not on a dock or in a driveway. Dust and wind ruin good vinyl; a controlled install bay is the difference between a wrap that holds at the edges through a season on the water and one that starts lifting at the first launch.

Bring your design or let us build it

Boat wraps run the same two design paths as our vehicle work.

Bring your AI design

You mocked up a hull graphic in ChatGPT, Midjourney, or Sora and it looks great on screen. The file won't print at size and the proportions won't match your actual hull. We fix what the AI got wrong, keep what it got right, and install it. Full detail: AI design to install. Same design pricing as our standard package — no "AI surcharge."

Let us build the design

Basic ($250, 1 concept + 3 revisions), Standard ($500, 2 concepts + 6 revisions), or Premium ($750, 3 concepts + 9 revisions). Flat design packages, priced up front. A hull graphic is a design problem before it's an install — proportion, sightlines, and how the layout reads from shore all matter more than they do on a flat panel.

See your boat wrap

Two ways to get moving.

1. [Design it with our AI tool](/design). Vessel type, coverage, brand or color direction — see it rendered. 60 seconds, no sales call.
2. Call (801) 648-9727. Faster if your boat is unusual or you're working a sponsor or tournament deadline.

Design My Boat Wrap →