Good boat names ...
Peter Kuciak
here and see what other people called their boats. I will probably be
buying a boat soon and am looking for some ideas. Also, you will
probably be suprised that there are lots of boats with same names, and
hopefully I can come up with an original (good luck, right ?).
peter
James R. Burley II
I too would like to come up with a unique name for my 25' powerboat. What
kind of themes have most people used in naming their boats? I've considered
my daughter's name "Miss Madeline" and my wife's name, but would prefer
something less likely to result in a grudge. I would love to see a list of
boat names...it might help me think of something appropriate (sp?) for my
boat.
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>Hi all, I just thought if might be a good idea to post your boat names
>here and see what other people called their boats.
OK--I'll bite.
Mothership: Natty Dread
Inflatable Dinghy: Soon Come
Launch: Irie
Parents' Boat: Beats Workin'
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Richard Murphy
We named our 19' Wellcraft (yeah, I know, ya don't name these little ones)
after our son's room in his pi-lam fraternity house, where he hosted some
all-nighters complete with dancing, good times, and, believe it or not, not
too much beer. Since it represented a place where he thoroughly enjoyed his
time with college friends, we named it "Club Murph."
Jon Zeeff
A 40' Moody Sloop named Spanish Mood
A Laser named Incoherent
A yellow Hobie named Banana Split
As far as I know they are original, but they probably aren't unique.
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Michael James Porter
Well, our boat came with the name 'Shelley II' on it, and we didn't
change it yet. My wife's name is Bonnie, and someone has
suggested 'Mutiny on the Bonnie'....we'll see.
Mike
Eric Howard
My current boat is named HANNAH I bought it off my father who named it (you
know how grandfathers are about grand children) its former name was
southern nights.
My cat was the TOUCHE' This came from the sport that I am involved with.
My uncles boat is the NASTY II Which comes from what my mother called him.
Eric Howard
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Our boat is named after my wife. Its name is SHIKSA.
(I'm a Goldstein and she's a Murphy. If additional explanations are
needed, just ask.)
Marv
Bill Walker
My parents tell me that I named their second boat (a 16' outboard runabout
that they got when I was about 5) "Christopher Robin and Splashers Away"
(or was that "Aweigh"?). Given the transom area available on your typical
small outboard boat, this name was never painted on the boat (gee, you
don't think it was because my folks would've been embarrassed, do you?).
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Michael Stuyt
>In article <wcsintd7.740929801@cunews> wcsi...@superior.carleton.ca (Peter Kuciak) writes:
>>Hi all, I just thought if might be a good idea to post your boat names
>>here and see what other people called their boats.
>
>OK--I'll bite.
> Mothership: Natty Dread
> Inflatable Dinghy: Soon Come
> Launch: Irie
> Parents' Boat: Beats Workin'
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> Hi all, I just thought if might be a good idea to post your boat names
> here and see what other people called their boats. I will probably be
> buying a boat soon and am looking for some ideas.
>
I bought a used sailboat which was called,, Bluebelle.
Now at that time I had just become single and had alot
of "party" sails, so one night we got out the electrical
tape and changed the name to Blueballs. Now the boat unnamed.
I tried to think of some cuteor creative names, but have finally
settled on "Ashley", in honor of my niece who was born with
a defected lung and was with us for a few hours.
Other cute names, "Sin or Swim", "No Fat Chicks". We were
racing when I saw "No Fat Chicks", a female crew member
remarked "I going to name my boat No Small Dicks". Made our
day.
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David C Shear
International Orange sails called Halloween.
Sail number?? You guessed it!! 10/31
PS boat trailer has "10/31" and "Halloween" license plates (orange/black/blue)
from Aruba!!
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Kevin Weber
I've had three boats:
Jabberwocky (From the poem)
Chickadee ("That's my little Chickadee.")
Sharkbite (First time out a shark took a bite out of one of my boat
seats)
I suggest taking the boat out and letting it develop a 'personallity'.
Then name her.
I always hated boats obviously named after real people such as kids or the
wife. So boring. I like puns. I knew a guy with a sailboat called
'Little Deuce Sloop".
kevin
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In article <wcsintd7.740929801@cunews>,
wcsi...@superior.carleton.ca (Peter Kuciak) writes:
> Hi all, I just thought if might be a good idea to post your boat names
> here and see what other people called their boats. I will probably be
> buying a boat soon and am looking for some ideas.
>
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>>Hi all, I just thought if might be a good idea to post your boat names
>>here and see what other people called their boats.
>
> Inflatable Dinghy: Soon Come
> Launch: Irie
> Parents' Boat: Beats Workin'
Nakia - Paiute Indian for "wild one", as in "one with nature". The
original owners came up with it and we liked it too.
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Paul Hammer
Mine's "Bacchante". I didn't choose it, it came with the boat.
I don't particularly like it, but I don't hate it. It's applied
with vinyl in a pleasing font with nice decorative swirlies
around it.
-rickf
Francis Muir
ENTROPY (Stonehorse 23)
PEEP (Schock 16')
FELIX the CAT (Freedom 21)
GOBLIN (Pacific Seacraft 25)
Francis Muir
Hoover Chan
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Jeff Huntington
don't remember exactly where I have seen them, you might look in the Boat US
catalog or the West Marine Catalog (or any of the catalogs, for that matter).
Jeff Huntington
Alan Monday-WWCS Business Mgt. Group
and then bought a 30 ft cabin cruiser, which suits him better. Anyway he named
his Hunter after his cat TOPAZ. Then he named his powerboat HUNTER after
the *brand name* of his sailboat....very *uncreative* I thought.
Paul Kamen
TWILIGHT ZONE
DOCTOR WHO
LOST IN SPACE
We're still waiting for a MISSION IMPOSSIBLE to join the fleet.
One of the better names on the bay is WET SPOT.
And a great name for a teleconferencing addict would be TOPIC DRIFT.
-"Call me Fishmeal"-
Paul Kamen
Then you'd also like HOT RUDDERED BUMS (a Santana 22).
Other good ones: SPAGHETTI FACTORY (small race boat)
EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY (continuing the sci-fi theme)
FREE RIDES (works well on a huge battle flag)
If you have a radio, it's important that the name is easy to pronounce and
spell. Avoid in-jokes, and foreign words with obscure meanings (or else
you'll spend your life explaining what the name means).
Also, if you have a radio, *do not* name the boat MAYDAY.
David Spencer
>Other cute names, "Sin or Swim", "No Fat Chicks". We were
>racing when I saw "No Fat Chicks", a female crew member
>remarked "I going to name my boat No Small Dicks". Made our
>day.
There's an Etchells hereabouts named _PMS_. It's raced by an all-woman
crew.
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Bruce Munro
Seen recently at the Round the Island Race on an F27 trimaran (which has
hulls that can be folded against the centre hull when moored up).
Triptych
\'trip-tik\ n. a picture in three
panels side by side, with a central
panel and two flanking panels that
fold over it
The dictionary definition was actually in smaller type under the name.
Famous ex-Flying Dutchman sailor Rodney Patterson sails one of these
boats nowadays. They're pretty quick.
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Michael B. Laing
>Subject: Good boat names ...
>Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 13:50:01 GMT
Named my Catalina 22 after my wife and song. The exclamation point is
important: Oh! Susannah
Mike Laing (la...@ncst.nrl.navy.mil)
R.J.Hare
*****'s Rival - usually a Rival of some description - where ***** is the name
of the wife/husband/mistress/toyboy/livein lover who doesn't
sail
Working Late - what an excuse for the wife! - he'll probably see this - he
reads this group
Gephyrophobia - Laser - means 'fear of bridges' - honest - only works on the
Forth or anywhere where you have to sail around these bridge
things (San Francisco, Sydney?)
Wet Dream - University Sailing Club Lark - now changed I believe (sigh...)
Other names:
Heart of Gold - for Hitch Hikers fans - was a boat of this name at Cowes (?) a
couple of years ago
My all-time favorite:
Moonwind - wooden yacht (I believe) based in Canada which a friend of mine
once showed me some photographs of. One of the most attractive
yachts I've ever (not) seen (maybe the owner will see these nice
remarks and offer me a sail - dream on...).
Roger Hare
Cindy Rossley
(Michael B. Laing) wrote:
>
> In article <wcsintd7.740929801@cunews> wcsi...@superior.carleton.ca (Peter Kuciak) writes:
> >From: wcsi...@superior.carleton.ca (Peter Kuciak)
> >Subject: Good boat names ...
> >Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 13:50:01 GMT
> >Hi all, I just thought if might be a good idea to post your boat names
> >here and see what other people called their boats.
Back in the good old days when we looked forward to winter used to ski, we
named our first sailboat "Second Season".
Our current sailboat is named "Windtryst" meaning rendezvous with the wind.
Cindy Rossley
Swarthmore College
cros...@cc.swarthmore.edu
Jeffrey C. Tsai
> buying a boat soon and am looking for some ideas. Also, you will
> probably be suprised that there are lots of boats with same names, and
> hopefully I can come up with an original (good luck, right ?).
>
> peter
For you computer jocks, here is one..
/dev/boat
Jim Caldwell
Therapy
John Wexler
|> Local boat names which occur to me (excluding my own):
and then fails to mention one which has recently appeared at Port Edgar:
Begrudged
John Wexler
Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans
Mark Roberts ~
>>Hi all, I just thought if might be a good idea to post your boat names
>>here and see what other people called their boats.
>
> Mothership: Natty Dread
> Inflatable Dinghy: Soon Come
> Launch: Irie
> Parents' Boat: Beats Workin'
>
> |
>(305/797-2446) / | \ Ft. Lauderdale, Fl 33313
>"Let's just punch through that ---------- UUCP: uunet!gould!tflynn
>sand bar"--Crew of Natty Dread ------ INTERNET: tfl...@encore.com
O.K., since someone else bit first, here's a partial list of boat names
in the Dory Fleet at Pacific City, Oregon.
Fish Assassin
Shark Bait
Old Soak
Loose Nut
Rusty Screw
Malinda May
Murf
Donna L
Edna B
Falcon
Short Shot
No Fish
Snapper
Yellow Ribbon
Little Skipper
Sandgerdi
Partner
Partnership
Love Boat (owned by Ken and Nancy Love)
Radar
Refuge
Kiawanda Jr.
Bawana
Jomar
Showtime
Eagle
Snark (super snark)
JJ
Tic-a-loon
Remedy
Sam Pan
Easy
Easy-to-Sea
Predator
Falcon
Dixie Chicken
Pappas Toy
Do Dad
Tax Free
Sea Q
Windy
Coho
Viking
Norskee
Karma
SB Dory
Harbor Master
Sweet 16
Surf Slider
Cricket
Trix
Oregonion
Ten-Thirty
Born Free
Irishman
Scottsman
Sarge
Fiddler
Pacific Wing
Johnny Reb
Wahoo
Naked Lady
Pink Lady
Triton
Triton S
Tiki
White Cap
Little Dip Ship
P.C. Hooker
These are all 20-24 foot fishing boats- both sport and commercial-
that fish offshore at Cape Kiawanda, Pacific City, OR
Fish to Live, Live to Fish
'Fish Assassin' Mark
Pacific City, OR
******* Just an old tech. guy livin' in a High Tech world *******
R.J.Hare
Hm! Missed that one - wish I'd thought of it...
RH.
Torsten Weirich
Hi all, I just thought if might be a good idea to post your boat names
here and see what other people called their boats. I will probably be
buying a boat soon and am looking for some ideas. Also, you will
probably be suprised that there are lots of boats with same names, and
hopefully I can come up with an original (good luck, right ?).
My boat: Pair of Aces
My neighbor's: The Addiction (he likes to fish)
Torsten Weirich
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In article <wcsintd7.740929801@cunews>, wcsi...@superior.carleton.ca
(Peter Kuciak) wrote:
>
> Hi all, I just thought if might be a good idea to post your boat names
> here and see what other people called their boats. I will probably be
> buying a boat soon and am looking for some ideas. Also, you will
> probably be suprised that there are lots of boats with same names, and
> hopefully I can come up with an original (good luck, right ?).
My boat is named CZECHMATE. Guess where I am from originaly!
Most people get it right, but I do have to tell some: No, I don't
play chess!
By the way I named my inflatable BOUNCING CZECH.
Greetings,
Mirek Kalovsky, University of Toronto
Stuart Wier
intended just for her, and maybe a friend; too small for the big
brother. She got to name it of course: "Swift Paradise."
Stu
Dean Schell
Parts store one day and noticed they had a bunch of graphics stuff for
cars and trucks. So after I removed the previous letters, the Lido now
has a script Rock 'n Roll on the transom, which fits me since I like the
old Sixties rock and roll.
-dean
John McGlaughlin
Merry Macs
dighy - The Monitor
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Jeff Huntington
We have had several boats all named "Ambivalence"
Somehow that didn't seem appropriate for our new boat, which
is named "Sand Dollar".
Jeff Huntington
Michael Phillips
In Waukegan (sp?), I saw a sloop from Ft Lauderdale named "CMOS".
There is (was) a "racer" there named "Cracker Jack". During one of the
annual parade/party events, as they approached the "judging" stand,
the crew pop'd a beautiful spinnaker with, of course, the sailor kid
from a cracher jacks box on it! Very impressive.
My last Cape Dory was (also, already) named "Next Step" -- I <never> liked
this name, but never got around to changing it. Moved to Atlanta and sold
it instead.... now, if only I could move <back> to FL (and keep my job)...
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Stefan Mochnacki
> My all-time favorite:
> Moonwind - wooden yacht (I believe) based in Canada which a friend of mine
once showed me some photographs of. One of the most attractive
yachts I've ever (not) seen (maybe the owner will see these nice
remarks and offer me a sail - dream on...).
I wonder if you may not be thinking of "Woodwind", an all-brightwork
Folkboat which was next to my boat in the Dutchman's Cove yard
in Penetanguishene until I got moved closer to the water? It's
for sale, the broker is Ewan Campbell, (705)-526-2222. It's on
a trailer.
- Stefan Mochnacki
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Dave Kinzer
I just happened to get some pictures back of my trip to Galveston, Tx where
I snapped a picture of the commercial fishing fleet. Some good ones are:
Empty Pockets
Rinkie Dink (not really small, mind you)
Gladiator
Rock Bottom
-dave
Michael Stuyt
Randolph Bentson
(Bruce Munro) writes:
>
>Seen recently at the Round the Island Race on an F27 trimaran (which has
>hulls that can be folded against the centre hull when moored up).
>
>Triptych
Seen in Seattle, an F27 named
Origami
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Next Worse: A name you've seen on several other boats, I think originality
counts.
Also bad: Names that use a very stylistic font that's hard to read in
moderately choppy seas. What looks good on paper sometimes doesn't
translate well to a rocking boat.
With trepedation, I offer the name of our Baba 40, Baba BarAnn.
Bob Richardson
John Capo
Do I Look Like I Give A F***
Gary Sanders
While on Catalina Island saw a couple lam names, but the one name
that caught my eye was
Phanta Sea
Was on a ~25ft Sailboat out of San Diego.
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Dirk John Fischer
In a many previous articles, lots was said:
I crew on a Sorell 33 called "Blind Squirrel"
This season, I think she found the NUTS!
-Dirk Fischer
NO SIG FILE, NOW. GOPHERS ATE 'EM.
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The one name that always sticks in my mind is "Reef Ruffian III". I still
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of sailboats named Crocodile. At one time, they also had a powerboat,
which they named Crocodile Tears. Its dinghy's name was Handkerchief.
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Augustine Cano
Seen at the Fair Haven, NJ boat yard: "Seaduced"
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John F. Hughes
If you want to be "clever" in naming your boat, and have some desire
to be original,
(1) avoid all puns using the word "sea" as in "sea-duced,"
"Sea-lect" "Ecstasea," etc.;
(2) Take a look in Lloyd's Register of Yachts to find the most common
names (for a certain kind of yacht). Some bird names are much overused;
(3) Decide whether your boat really has anything to do with your profession
before you name it something that's related, like "Subpeona" or "Root
Canal";
(4) Remember that the joke you make, whatever it might be, has to last for
quite a few years;
(5) Avoid snobbishness--you'll regreat it later. (I think, particularly,
of a Hinckley 50-something footer in Barrington called "Patrician." Actually,
having heard some about the owner, I doubt that he *does* regret it, but my
point remains...)
(6) Unless you really think a name is great, avoid multiple instances, as in
"Just Rite IV." few jokes bear repeating four times;
(7) Save a few bucks and avoid putting "the" at the front of the name, as
in "The Just Rite IV";
(8) Keep it short and simple, in case you need help some day. Spelling your
boat's name to the CG over a noisy channel can be a pain. Just imagine
You: Yes, that's PHTHISIS
CG: Could you spell that please?
You: Sure.....P....H....T
CG: I though you said 'P'
You: I *did* say P. It's P...H...T...H...
CG: And this is pronounced "thississ?"
You: That's right. But it won't be pronounced anything muCH longer...the
water's already over the floorboards...
(9) Consider names that might be amusing to your local fleet. Paul Kamen can
correct me if I'm wrong, but I recall a boat in SF Bay called Urban Guerilla,
for example.
And since the original poster asked for names of our boats, I'll give you
the list:
Cataclysm (a C-class catamaran)
Pandamonium (two tornado catamarans)
Bing (a dinghy bult for my godson---he named it; this is the same kid
who named two chickens "curio" and "mush")
Sarah (my Alberg 37)
Bufflehead (the current dinghy to Sarah)
The new dinghy I'm building is still un-named.
Other named I've liked over the years:
Prudence
Lapwing
Hurrying Angel (from a Wordsworth (?) poem---the name of my dad's cruising
catamaran in the late 60s)
Emma (OK, so I really liked the *boat* for this one, too...)
Emma Hamilton (the name of a sequence of C-class cats in the early 60s)
-John
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Frank Siegrist
A beat up old Thistle with a sloppy varnish job named "The Sleazy B".
A not quite as old Annapolis 26 named "Tons 'O Fun".
Frank
Robert Hanners
My neighbors' Broadwater, named for its Fourth of July launching after
an intensive year and a half of major rehab (ya gotta know Broadwaters):
"Ready or Not"; its dinghy: "Here I Come".
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Roy Smith
> (8) Keep it short and simple, in case you need help some day. Spelling your
> boat's name to the CG over a noisy channel can be a pain.
How about "Throat Warbler Mangrove", pronounced "Luxury Yacht", or
is the other way around?
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NYU School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
"This never happened to Bart Simpson."
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I always thought a good name would be.
Raison d'etre (French for reason to be)
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>>here and see what other people called their boats.
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Macklin Burnham
> Worst name: May Day (is this really legal?)
I once chartered a boat with the curious name "Bre 3". When I got back in, I
inquired about the meaning. It turns out that the owner bought the boat, a
Sabre 34, and put it immediately into charter. When it was suggested that a
name would be appropriate, he just scraped off the first two letters and
the last number of the builder's label on the transom (apparently he bought
it at a boat show). This is a man who is not only a cheapskate but who
has no soul.
Mack Burnham
daniel.c.mckibben
or other female relative? I realize that this is a long standing tradition,
but it really seems odd in this day and age. Is this a way of paying
homage to the person? I can see that for the QE II, but for the Shirley B????
Or is naming the boat after the wife a misguided way to get her approval of
time spent fishing or sailing?
Would anyone name their car, house, or pet after their mother or daughter?
"Happy Anniversary Honey, I wanted to let you know how much you mean to me,
so I've named my 73 Vega the WANDA X and painted it on the hood."
Those of you with woman's names on your boats, I am really curious as to
what inspired you to name it after a relative.
Dan McKibben
"Wachusett"
kr...@mcvax4.d48.lilly.com
but it was getting crowded. A fourth
name I'm considering (I may need to buy a bigger boat just for the name space)
is Teak for Two. Stan " Which way is clockwise on a digital watch" the
sailorable man."
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>In article <20eq4f$o...@bnsgd245.bnr.co.uk> bocm...@bnr.co.uk
>(Bruce Munro) writes:
>>
>>Seen recently at the Round the Island Race on an F27 trimaran (which has
>>hulls that can be folded against the centre hull when moored up).
>>
>>Triptych
>
>Seen in Seattle, an F27 named
>
>Origami
Seen in Santa Cruz, an F27 named
Oscillation Overthruster
- hbm
Michael Burati
>For you computer jocks, here is one..
> /dev/boat
I wasn't going to bother using up more bandwidth for this (had actually wished
the original poster had asked for email of the names and posted a single
summary), but since I've got nothing else to post about, here's another bad
(nerdy/geek?) boat name I saw (on a J24?) in Scituate:
Floating Point
..Mike
O'Day 272 "Moriah"
John F. Hughes
>Why would anyone name their boat after a relative, usually a wife, daughter
>or other female relative? I realize that this is a long standing tradition,
>but it really seems odd in this day and age.
I'm not sure what's different about "this day and age" and any other, with
regard to names. Fishermen (I mean professional fishermen, like the Banks
fleet out of New Bedford, and the lobstermen in Maine) often name their
boats after wives or daughters. I'm not sure why, but once started, it's
a tradition that's hard to shake. Imagine:
Wife: What're you gonna name the new boat?
Husband: Not sure yet...
Wife: Ralph named *his* boat the Annie B. [Annie being Ralph's wife...]
Husband [catching string signals]: Well, then, I'd guess I'd better call
my new boat the Martha G. [Martha being the wife's name].
>Would anyone name their car, house, or pet after their mother or daughter?
Well, most of us don't name our cars or our houses. I once knew a cat named
Peter Greenberg, after a friend of the owner. Naming it Anne Goldman would
have been odd, since it was male. :-)
>Those of you with woman's names on your boats, I am really curious as to
>what inspired you to name it after a relative.
Well, my boat has a woman's name on it (Sarah), but the only relative I have
by that name is my great-grandmother, whom I never met. The boat's not named
after her at all. I just always liked the name Sarah--it sounded pretty to
me, and my boat looked pretty to me, so it seemed like a good fit.
Now what about "Wachusett"? It seems to me that this is the name of a
reservoir somewhere, or an indian tribe. Would you name your dog or your
house after an indian tribe? Would you name your dog "Excellence" or "Sea
Cure"? I think that the problem here is that analogies don't really hold
up.
I think that people name their boats in two ways primarily: ways that reflect
something about the boat (or what one hopes for from the boat), e.g.,
"Dauntless", "Serenity," "Princess Anne," "Dawntreader," or ways that
reflect on the owner in some way (cleverness, profession, whatever), e.g.,
"Patrician," "Speed Stud," "Root Canal," or "Sea Cure."
Bruce Munro
>I wasn't going to bother using up more bandwidth for this (had actually wished
>the original poster had asked for email of the names and posted a single
>summary), but since I've got nothing else to post about, here's another bad
>(nerdy/geek?) boat name I saw (on a J24?) in Scituate:
>
>Floating Point
A goodish non-PC J-24 name on a boat shortly to take part in the J-24
Europeans in Spain:
"Never Let a Day Go By"
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will_howard
show up. At Block Island Race Week a J-35 had the slogan "Free Amy Fisher"
duct-taped to the boom. Another boat named "PAX" showed up one day with
the letters "TAM" taped just before the rest of the name; and in an extra
display of tastelessness, had a piece of white string hanging off the
letter T. (I don't if the Pax crew or somebody else did this).
A Farr 36 was called "Pigs in Space." I had a hard time stopping myself
from calling it "Pigs in Shit." A boat docked near us was called "Rocket
Squirrel" with Bullwinkle J. Moose listed as guest helmsman for one race.
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Eric Koldinger
Also, on another boat: Sloop du Jour
Personally, I always thought our yacht clubs fleet had some of the coolest names:
Phantom, Frenesi, Makai, Ariadne, Excalibur, Caravel, Peregrine, amongst others.
All just cool sounding names.
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Francis Muir
Also, on another boat: Sloop du Jour
Second cousin to Redwood City's PRIMORDIAL SLOOP, no doubt.
FLM
Paul Kamen
class national championships a few years back:
ALIENS ATE MY BUICK
Don Meyer
>A Laser named Incoherent
Hee hee hee! Bet very few people get _that_ one! :-)
Our's is named after a fictional spacecraft (which may of course have
in turn been named after a boat...) from a novel. It's been appropriate
so far! Also, I like to think, a very optomistic name in a low-key
fashion.
Don
Capri 18 "Muddlin' Through"
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you from life's joy and prepare you for the relentless heartache that is
adulthood." -- Earl Sinclair to Robbie
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Darwin C Boblet
of Odysseus. I've also got a Navico tiller pilot I call 'Fang' due to
it's looks and the dental work I was having done when I bought it (with
the devil dentist from h...).
Darwin
bob...@hpoedpd.sj.hp.com
Craig Levin
USA-1 Zenda Express
USA-10 Prisoner of Zenda
USA-11 Penetrator (remember the bow sprit/spinnaker pole)
USA-50 Iceman from Zenda (previous boat was Heatwave)
USA-3 Griffin from Sabine (owner's 2 year old)
Francis Muir
I've ... got a Navico tiller pilot I call 'Fang' due to it's looks
and the dental work I was having done when I bought it (with the
devil dentist from h...).
I like that. It has always seemed to me that auto-pilots had too many brains
and not enough teeth or guts.
F
Mark Roberts ~
It's an old tradition of the sea (not fresh water) to name your boat after:
1) your wife
2) your daughter (first born)
3) your mother
4) your grandmother
The idea being that every time the captain made an entry in his log book he
would write down the boats' name and thereby think of the females he left
behind when he went to sea. Remember, in the old day not only were women
not allowed on board a sailing vessel, they were considered bad luck.
While preparing to name my last boat I considered the names Theresa Ann or
Teeta Ann for my wife and decided that I didn't like her well enough to
name something I love as much as my boat by *her* name. My first daughter
was named Alicia Jean. Not bad, but thats a name my wife picked out for the
kid, and I didn't want *her* to name my boat.
Since this was my second but of this kind (the first was named "SharkBait",
I thought it might be permissible to use my *second* daughters name "Echo"
(a name that I picked out) but I already new a boat called that.
The Irene A (after my mother) just didn't sound right and my grandmother
died when I was a child so I didn't feel right with Helena R. I finally
settled on a boat name that suited me and my boat. I guess that's what
really counts. ;)
Fish to Live, Live to Fish
'Fish Assassin' Mark
Pacific City, OR
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the name of a legendary Boston Pilot Schooner)
One of my favorites related by Roger Taylor, was a big heavy ketch
named MOBY DICK, which just happened to have a whaleboat called
the CAPTAIN AHAB as a dinghy. Of course they always towed the dinghy.....
goldstein,marvin
Last Buck (w/dinghy called "Pocket Change")
ATSSAMYBOAT (w/dinghy "ATSSAMYBOAT 2")
IT'S A GREAT LIFE (w/dinghy "YOU BET IT IS")
Gerald Belton
"Sealestial." I like that.
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Gerald Belton
>>buying a boat soon and am looking for some ideas. Also, you will
>>probably be suprised that there are lots of boats with same names, and
>>hopefully I can come up with an original (good luck, right ?).
>>
>Named my Catalina 22 after my wife and song. The exclamation point is
>important: Oh! Susannah
My South Coast 23 is named after my wife: Maggie C
(My wife's name is Margaret Caryl.) This meets the "good luck"
criteria of having seven letters and at least one double letter.
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John Capo
She wants to live-aboard so she jumped right in and bought an O'Day 272.
The boat is named Debbie Do after the previous owners wife. That name has
to go.
Changing a boat's name is bad luck, or so it has been said. Years ago I
was told of a mystical ceremony one must perform when changing the name.
Something about sand bars and the full moon. Any thoughts on this?
My boat was named Summerwind when I bought it and although I have wanted
to change it, that name is tolerable so I have kept it. I have owned this
boat, a Columbia 36, for 13 years and have no horror stories to tell.
Maybe it's because I kept the old name.
Well we have YOONICKS, so we have multitasking...
Tom O'Toole - ecf_...@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu - JHUVMS system programmer
Homewood Computing Facilities
Johns Hopkins University, Balto. Md. 21218
>WP takes some strange ideas about que management and makes you agree with them
Well we have YOONICKS, so we have multitasking...
Hugger Muggery
Engleboat Humperdinghy
Floccinaucinihilipilificator
Mark Maral
Mahogany Rush
The ones my wife likes:
Money Pit
Foolish Pleasure
Mark
Pete Sykes
A Merlin Rocket called "Contradiction" because of the habits of the
crew previously it had been called "The Sage of Umm" A character in a
Rupert cartoon I believe who always carried an umbrella in case he got
wet ( MR sailors will know what I mean)
I now have a laser sail no 123 007 The Bond connection led the 1st
owner to call it "Licensed to Win" The second thought that was
pretentious and took off the "Win" I'm thinking of calling it
"Licensed Premises" so when any one ( Ok , the Wife) asks where I'll
be that evening I can say "On Licensed Premises" with absolute truth.
There is a J24 in the club called "Cheeseburger in Paradise" - Don't
ask me why and my favourite is a racing dinghy called "Thomas Covenantor
of ?????" named after a covenantor who suffered Leprosy and in moments of
empassioned oratory was likely to have bits fall off him - which is
more or less what happens to the boat!.
Pete Sykes
M.T.PATERSON
NORSEA (nausea?)
sister ships are NORLAND NORWAVE and NORSUN
David C Shear
'Ruthless' Hobie 18 in NH (logo cat taking a swipe at a mouse, husband races
without his wife, Ruth)
'Pink Panther' Hobie 16 (has hot pink sails with black paw prints up jib and
main)
'Crack a' Tinny' Hobie 18 in Toronto (husband & wife visited Australia, term
used by Aussie's for 'wanna beer??'or 'open a beer')
'Wire nut' Hobie 16 in MA (wire relates to trapeze)
'Cat Nappin' Hobie 16 (Both boats owned by same person in MA
'Still Cat Nappin' Hobie 18 they are identical in color (hulls & sails)!!)
<Hobie 18 has a sleeping Garfield cat on bows>
'Hobie Wan Kenobie' Hobie 16 in MA (logo of man in dark cape)
'Das Boat' Hobie 16 in CN (has German flag on masthead, skipper sails with cloth
pilot helmet with ear caps and flight suit(???))
'Buzzard Express' Hobie 21 in MA (term relates to Buzzard Bay & its daily wind)
'Breakin' Wind' Hobie 16 in NY (logo has funny-looking clouds, you guess the
meaning(??))
'Altered States' Hobie 18 in NY <Hobie Alter created the Hobie Cat>
'House Calls' Hobie 18 in NH (logo is Opus with a doctors bag, relates to Dr.
McGillycuddy's Peppermint Schnapps which he liberally downs)
'Sea Bitch' Hobie 17 in Toronto (raced by a women, a very fast and !#$&%@ sailor)
Most obscene
'Blow Me' Hobie 21 in Toronto
(letters in Gothic, had to get up close to read/comprehend name)
<owners drinking in bar, thought of this name first, tried to find a more
civilized name, but after a couple of hours ( & multiple beers), the first
name stuck!!!!>
My personal favorite
'Wild Thing' Hobie 21 in CN
(logo of a devil-like beast from Tolkein book on the bows and spinnaker,
the daggerboards say 'Doin the Wild Thing' spelled on them, can be seen
when he 'flies a hull')
<The skipper is a real character, he sells shirts and hats in all sorts of
wild colors and patterns with logo on them)
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Don Eilenberger
As far as renaming... I used the bad luck tradition on my last boat,
named "White Witch" (after a local rock group the first owner was in)
since I sorta liked the name.. wife didn't, felt is was a reflection
on her..
Current boat was named "Archi-tack", first owner was a guess what..
couldn't take the name, so we had a contest for an entire summer to
come up with a new one.. final choice (wife nixed WhiteWitch II) was
"Wind Breaker".. nice nautical/sailing sound to it, and more or less a
pun (reverse it) on one of my favorite activities.
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Paul Kamen
I like it! Do you have the theme music piped up to the permanent outside
speakers? I get a lot of mileage out of the sound effects that go with
Twilight Zone.
The "Aliens Ate My Buick" folks were racing in Long Beach last weekend -
a J-35, I think, called PsychoBetty.
Phantom Tollbooth was also a J-24. The tradition in that class seems to
be to enter each regatta under a different name! I've also seen
Casual Contact and Rythm Method in that fleet.
Another notable name was Diminished Capacity, a Pearson Ensign that was
racign on the Bay a year after the Moscone/Milk killings. They threw
twinkies at other boats that got too close.
-"Call me Fishmeal"-
Marilee Marshall
>>
>> Inflatable Dinghy: Soon Come
>> Launch: Irie
>> Parents' Boat: Beats Workin'
>
My husband's initial are DAM, mine are MMM: So our boat is names
the "D.A.M.M.M.M. Boat".
One of the best names I've seen is "Primordial Sloop".
Paul Kamen
Yes, it is *very* bad luck to change a boat's name - UNLESS you do the
following:
First time out with the new name on the boat, as soon as you're in open water,
you need to luff up into the wind and let the boat drift to a complete stop,
then hold it into the wind while it drifts *backwards.* This may be very hard
to do in some boats - especially in light wind - but it doesn't seem to matter
how many tries it takes, as long as you do it.
It sympbolizes "backing over" the old name, and expunging associated deamons
and spirits.
(and, not entirely coincidentally, you'll be much better at maneuvering your
boat in tight quarters under siail after you pull off this stunt.)
will_howard
(for Premature Start, of course). I don't know if that boat is still
around.
I'D RATHER BE SAILING. RICK X4376
> IN addition to names, look at some of the temporary names or slogans that
> show up. At Block Island Race Week a J-35 had the slogan "Free Amy Fisher"
> duct-taped to the boom. Another boat named "PAX" showed up one day with
The T-10 sailed by women named Superstitions was adjusted as follows:
Super_tit___s
2 boats ago, a Seafearer 30:
Whiplash - in a car accident just prior to closing the deal
last boat, a Soverel 26
Sybaris - Greek, loose translation: drunken orgy
current boat, a Soverel 33
Blind Squirrel
some rejected names:
Wild Thing
Pocket Change
Over Budget
Phffft
Credit Limit
A C&C 37R named "Dreaded Red" after his wife who was noted for always kissing
aquaitances on the cheek when ever they meet at social events. Because she
used SO MUCH bright red lipstick her kisses always left a mess, thus people
would do there best to dodge her to avoid being marked, hence "Dreaded Red."
They got divorced this winter and the boat is now "Dreaded ???"
some other good names in our club and around Lake Erie:
Scars & Scrapes - J30
Pack-a-Lunch - Olson 30
Lake Effect - Olson 30
LYBRNO - Farr 50 (Large Yacht Big Rig No Ors)
Thriller - Soverel 33
Albino Swine - Soverel 27
Ballsnall - Hedi Backus' T10 (sound it out!!!)
Scallywag - T10
Schnapps' Revenge J29
Hunky Dory - Cape Dory 30
Hobbie Toledo - Hobbie 33 (sails out of Toledo)
Vortex - Kirby 30 (graphics have dollar bills funneling down a vortex)
Runaway - Soverel 39
Sleigh Ride - Soverel 33 (owned by Bob Sleigh)
XLR8 - Evelyn 32
Game Day - Bob Golic's boat (played nose guard for Browns & Raiders)
Risky Business - Farr 40
Surfrider - Frers 44
Stefan Michalowski
>It's an old tradition of the sea (not fresh water) to name your boat after:
>
> 1) your wife
> 2) your daughter (first born)
> 3) your mother
> 4) your grandmother
I wonder whether such a tradition actually existed. Perhaps for yachts,
fishing boats and coastal craft. Female names are quite rare when it
comes to large merchant sailing ships, at least in the nineteenth
century. When one looks at the roster of latter-day square-riggers
(say 1870 and onwards), one finds only a few ladies and a great many
males. For every "Grace Harwar" and "Grossherzogin Elizabeth" there
are a dozen "Benjamin Packards" and "Albert Rickmers". Ship names did
not seem to be a big preoccupation in those days. The famous Laeisz
line, for example, began all their ship names with the letter "P", in
an apparently random way. Thus, we have "Parsifal" and "Pelikan"
berthed side by side (I suppose there is an iconographic connection
there). The most magnificent square-rigger ever built (IMHO of
course), the mighty "Potosi", was named for what - a town?, a saint?.
Who knows?
Some of the names still sound right to us ("Wanderer", "Mneme",
"Asterion", "L'Avenir") others are downright hideous ("Garthsnaid",
"Pitlochry", "Pass of Killickrankie"). Whatever the name, a ship was
always "he" when first spotted, hull-down, on the horizon. Only after
the identity was known did the sailor switch to the familiar "she".
Stefan
Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans
my 13' Banshee; how big would it have to be to be a 1 ton sloop?
Daniel S McGehee
"Priapus". Pretty disgusting for such a pretty boat.
Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans
ste...@leland.Stanford.EDU (Stefan Michalowski) writes:
> ... When one looks at the roster of latter-day square-riggers
>(say 1870 and onwards), one finds only a few ladies and a great many
>males. For every "Grace Harwar" and "Grossherzogin Elizabeth" there
>
My grandfather sailed on the Herzogin Sophia Charlotte. I have
a photo of her circa 1904, and my father claims to have picked out
his father in one of the pictures in SF's Maritime Museum. In our
family, all the clipper ships that mattered had female names :-).
Robert Synoski
>In article <wcsintd7.740929801@cunews>, wcsi...@superior.carleton.ca (Peter Kuciak) writes:
>> Hi all, I just thought if might be a good idea to post your boat names
>> here and see what other people called their boats. I will probably be
>> buying a boat soon and am looking for some ideas. Also, you will
>> probably be suprised that there are lots of boats with same names, and
>> hopefully I can come up with an original (good luck, right ?).
>>
>
>
>
>For you computer jocks, here is one..
One more techie name
CMOS
>
> /dev/boat
>
Stefan Mochnacki
.
.
>course), the mighty "Potosi", was named for what - a town?, a saint?.
>Who knows?
>
>Some of the names still sound right to us ("Wanderer", "Mneme",
>"Asterion", "L'Avenir") others are downright hideous ("Garthsnaid",
>"Pitlochry", "Pass of Killickrankie").
But hey, according to Alan Villiers' "The War with Cape Horn",
the "Pitlochry" may have been the BEST square rigger of all ...
> Whatever the name, a ship was
>always "he" when first spotted, hull-down, on the horizon. Only after
>the identity was known did the sailor switch to the familiar "she".
>
I think that's still the practice, especially in the air, I believe.
The "he" refers to the Captain of the other craft, I think, where
the actions of the other craft are the expression of the Captain's
decisions. Can't recall where I learned that ... (and nowadays
it could be "she" also ....).
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Brian Smith
PINK GIN -- first boat; a wood/canvas kayak bought from a friend.
PINK GIN II -- the first wood/canvas kayak I built.
DEJA VUE -- the second (identical) wood/canvas kayak I built.
PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON -- Dabchick (named by my 2 sons, then about
5 and 6)
YELLOW SUBMARINE -- Fireball (white with yellow deck) named by the
same two sons.
DAD'S FOLLY -- an original Baja fiberglass windsurfer bought when I
was still in my 40's (boo hoo)
MOTHER'S LIB -- 12 ft whitewater kayak my wife bought from a
complete stranger at a lake one afternoon for $15.
M'FUTA -- current Clipper Marine 21 (reputedly is Swahili for
"Little tubby one"--well it is somewhat beamy)
Others I have seen:
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION -- all white Fireball
DON'T LAUGH LADY, YOUR DAUGHTER IS ON BOARD -- Shearwater catamaran
at Leigh-on-Sea Yacht Club, Essex, England (back in the '50s)
jbl...@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu
>There is a J24 in the club called "Cheeseburger in Paradise" - Don't
>ask me why and my favourite is a racing dinghy called "Thomas Covenantor
>of ?????" named after a covenantor who suffered Leprosy and in moments of
>empassioned oratory was likely to have bits fall off him - which is
>more or less what happens to the boat!.
>Pete Sykes
"Cheesburger in Paradise" is the name of a song by Jimmy Buffet.. who
also happens to be one of the UT Sailing Club's member's general favorites
as far as music to listen to when at the marina or on one of our monthly
campouts (where some of the more daring members sail to the camp site :)
Another favorite of mine is "Son of a Son of a Sailor", even if it isn't
completely accurate. ;)
I had the great honor and pleasure to listen to him perform live during
Spring Break this year at South Padre Island.. one of the highlights of the
trip, IMHO.
Glen
P.S. "Cheeseburger in Paradise" is reputed to refer to an actual eating
eastablishment where the burgers are divine.. I believe I heard it to be
some place in Florida..
--
jbl...@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
"May your sails be ever full and never luff.. except when coming into dock. :)"
Robert Hanners
-- Bob
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