Cool boat names
Shashi Buluswar
Howdy! Any suggestions for cool boat names? Let's see if we can
get a top-10 list or something.
shashi buluswar
computer science dept.
univ of massachusetts, amherst
Timothy Slidel
I once rowed in a boat called
"Ship of Fools"
(...Stones album yes) - it's not such a good name for a novice
boat but it's ok if you mean business ;o)
Tim.
John Paul Wangermann
Three of my favourites from college days at Cambridge were Black Prince
(I guess Tit Hall still have a boat called that), Vlad the Impaler, and
Jack the Ripper, which was the boat I won my novice regatta in.
Most of the other boats I've seen since seem to be named after old club
rowers, or have something to do with sponsors. At Evesham the Aylings
VIII was "Vorsprung durch technik": highly appropriate when it had a
winning crew in it . (In case you hadn't guessed we had Volkswagen Audi
sponsorship.)
Well, that's my tuppence worth. I think boat namers need more
imagination in general.
Pablo
Carnegie Lak RA
wang...@phoenix.princeton.edu
Marc Richard Cohen
One of the more amusing boat names I've seen was the Chester D (or
maybe it was Charles D). That in itself isn't so funny, but scrawled next
to the coxswain's seat was the name "Titanic," inscribed because the boat
sank the first time it touched water.
Back when I was in high school, we were the only team in Maryland
(Walt Whitman HS). We used to row against mostly Virginia schools for
local regattas, so we named one boat "Sherman's March," going back to the
Civil War. We also had the Coup de Grace, which I still like, and the
"Exorcist," because we did land workouts on the stairs shown in the last
scene of the movie.
My favorite name still belongs to the University of Wisconsin:
"Carnage"
-Marc Cohen
Neil Calkin
not Trinity Hall.... my favourite name of a boat there
was Fair Maid of Kent --- a wonderful clinker which
was designed by the boatman many years ago --- he was
really protective of her --- wouldn't let just any old
crew row her....
Neil
Samitha Amarasiri
> Howdy! Any suggestions for cool boat names? Let's see if we can
> get a top-10 list or something.
My very first race was the 'Rowing 101' regatta held for novice boats
in Lawrence, Kansas last October. We took a heavy weight wooden eight
to the race (our coach was convinced that we were not skilled enough
to row a lighter boat yet). While waiting for our race we walked
around, and saw all the carbon fiber boats that were named "Dr. So and
So". Finally our seven seat came up with the idea of naming our boat:
DR. S. M. WAKE
Which stood for Suck My Wake.
So the boat was christened with a roll of electric tape and a pocket
knife about half an hour before the race. The name turned out
prophetic because our first and second eights got the first and second
places respectively.
Now we row a much newer empacher, but we still refer to that old wood
as "The Doctor", and we are pretty affectionate towards it.
--
Samitha Amarasiri (913) 537-7647 (home)
Dept. of EE, KSU (913) 532-5600 (work)
You can find me at 701 N. 9th #10, Durland 044 or the KSU boathouse
John Reed
AMF
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M.E. Vault (Aimee)
name "rattus aquaticus". I thought that was an all too appropriate
name!!
Aimee
jr...@eagle.wesleyan.edu
non-operational this spring break when the bow broke off upon hitting a pier.
Joy Roth
jr...@eagle.wesleyan.edu
rk...@virginia.edu
I just remembered a story about a cool name down on the
Occoquan. Apparently, as you continue to row upstream, you
will see the words "SHADE TREE" scrawled in spray paint on
certail large rocks along the shores. In high school, when we
were wandering around the Sandy Run boathouses, I noticed a
single with the name "Shade Tree." Apparently, it belonged to
a sculler who had been rowing on the Occoquan for many, many
years and it was his way of leaving his legacy behind.
At least, that was the legend I heard. But the scull and the
spray paint is real.
-Rob Wright (Cox: the most important seat in a boat)
VIRGINIA CREW -- OUR WAKE YOUR FUNERAL
James Miller
The Dog Breath
Ragin' Cajun
and my personal favorite,
the GO NOW (our coach's favorite starting command).
-jm
Joel Furtek
DREADNOUGHT, which never lost a dual race before being retired
in 1990 (a former cox couldn't bear to see it sold, so he
bought it....)
I must say I enjoyed rowing the MAD RAT courtesy of the defunct
UCLA lightweights.
FWIW,
Joel
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Joel Furtek
University of Virginia
Program in Physical Education
res firma mitescere nescit
John Reed
what the cheer for the rowers using this boat would have been. I think
the boat belonged to GW University (I know it was at Thompsons Boat House
on the Potomac).
The Varsity 4 I was on (Yorktown, we didn't have enough rowers to field an
eight, we had one lightweight in the boat as it was) used to practice
against the GW University womens heavyweight eight. Talk about
motivation! A bunch of teenage higschool boys didn't want to lose to
women (even college women) and the Varsity GW women's 8 sure didn't want
to lose to a bunch of highschool boys. I think we had some pieces that
were as fast as some of our races. Surprisingly, we were pretty near dead
even most of the time (I figured they would blow us away with 8 against
4). Are any members of this crew (would have been spring of 1984) still
around? What did you think of these 'practices'? They were fun!!!
Jeffrey J. Hunter
Blind Speed
and
Redline (An all white kashper with a thin red line on the gunwale)
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lifetime apart. - Mike Vespoli
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Jeremy Martin
> Black Prince is the boat used by 1st and 3rd Trinity BC,
> not Trinity Hall....
All the eights of 1st and 3rd Trinity BC are painted black and callled Black
Prince. They ran into problems with their first plastic boat which melted under
the hot sun into a banana shaped craft.
Trinity College used to have 3 boat clubs, 1st, 2nd and 3rd. 2nd was disbanded
after their cox was killed in the bumps, impaled on the bows of a chasing
crew in 1886. That chasing crew was St. John's BC who were banned from the
river for 100 years. The club Lady Margaret BC was subsequently formed for
members of St. John's College. Bow balls soon became compulsory accessories for
eights.
Jeremy Martin ( J.C.B.C 1981-84 )
Neil Calkin
Actually, *some* of the eights used by 1st and 3rd are called Black Prince;
there are definitely other names; the John of Gaunt, the Edward II (or
possibly a different Edward), Fair Maid of Kent, etc....
elana
We recently bought a new Dirigo - we call it the "Cool Ranch" Dirigo.
_I_ think it's great!
At Dad Vails 3 years ago, I saw a Vespoli with "Wave of Mutilation"
painted on its side. Being a big Pixies fan, I liked that one too.
But what can beat the Cool Ranch Dirigo? :-)
--elana