Great Boat Names
Adam Turinas
it. Here's my first example:
"Pony Off A Lemon"
This was a quad scull at a Furnival Sculling Club at Hammersmith
Bridge, London. This club was full of great London characters. They
bought a new quad and were going to do the usual and name it after a
venerable, old member like the "Fred Smith" or somesuch name.
Instead a couple of codgers at the club had second thoughts one drunken
night and decided to give it a more inspiring name. Something that
described the boat in action. They settled on "That boat goes like shit
off a shovel".
Realizing that this was a little long and probably unseemly for
passersby on the banks of the Thames they translated it into Cockney
Rhyming slang "Pony Off A Lemon" (Pony & Trap = Crap; Lemonade=Spade).
You can imagine the reaction at the boat unveiling when everyone was
expecting it to be called the Fred Smith and there was the gold
italicized moniker "ony Off A Lemon" painted on its bow.
Any more great boat names welcom
Charles Ehrlich
much time in Britain. I don't know the story behind this one, but Lady
Margaret Hall (Oxon) has a men's eight called the "Elizabeth Swollocks."
They call it the "Betty" for short. I'm told that when they bought it they
convinced the college they had named it after some alumna.
Charles
Wolfson
Oxon.
Adam ELGAR
Off the baten track I've seen a few good names (aside from the
beloved Pony).
Here's a couple:
Corixa (Latin: Lesser waterboatman)
FRED (F..king Rediculous Econonmic Disaster)
Even further off the track (could be que for another thread) Some
the squad t & sweat shirts that have stuck in my mind:
WILD OAR KIDS Oxford Bookes Women (I think)
BEAVEREATERS WIN(in the style of a well known purveyor of gin and
boat race sponsor) Oxford Brookes again I belive
If they have t shirts with it on the Bay Area Rowing Club
(Houston)'s BEST LITTLE OARHOUSE IN TEXAS would take some beating
Course then there was our own (given that some unkind people refer
to our fine institution as 'Funeral') Who's Funeral?.. (on the
front) .... Yours! (on the back)
BTW have any Tideway rowers noticed that Hammersmith Council have
regonised which is the premier club on their strech of river by
painting Hammersmith bridge in Myrtle & Old Gold (Take that AK
and Sons!!)
Gideon
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Matt Freemont
Adam> FRED (F..king Rediculous Econonmic Disaster)
From an Annapolis, MD racing sloop:
WOFTAM (Waste of F..ing Time And Money)
and another Annapolis boat, perhaps not suitable for rowing, but very
appropriate for sailing:
Where Egos Dare, commonly referred to as simply "Egos"
-- as an interesting side note, a name originally suggested by
the women of the crew was "Ego Testicle"
Matthew Fremont
RussGB
1) When the Queen had just said she had experienced an Annus Horribilis, a
bad year, I saw a boat called 'Anus Horribilis'. I can't remember which
club they were, but that this is my favourite.
2)My second favourite is 'Dogs Blocks'. Most of us thought this was
something to do with greyhound racing. But then it seems to trip of the
tongue in a familiar way......
Friedrich Kruse-Fautsch
Be careful who you're calling a disaster... :-)
Re boatnames, one of my old clubs named a wooden four after the muck
that'd been growing on it. If it wasn't Spirogyra, then it was
something very similar and equally unpronouncable.
Fred
drew...@tezcat.com
>
>
>Off the baten track I've seen a few good names (aside from the
>beloved Pony).
>
>Here's a couple:
>
>Corixa (Latin: Lesser waterboatman)
>
>
>
>the squad t & sweat shirts that have stuck in my mind:
>
>
> WILD OAR KIDS Oxford Bookes Women (I think)
>
> BEAVEREATERS WIN(in the style of a well known purveyor of gin and
>boat race sponsor) Oxford Brookes again I belive
>
>If they have t shirts with it on the Bay Area Rowing Club
>(Houston)'s BEST LITTLE OARHOUSE IN TEXAS would take some beating
>
>
>Course then there was our own (given that some unkind people refer
>to our fine institution as 'Funeral') Who's Funeral?.. (on the
>front) .... Yours! (on the back)
>
>
>BTW have any Tideway rowers noticed that Hammersmith Council have
>regonised which is the premier club on their strech of river by
>painting Hammersmith bridge in Myrtle & Old Gold (Take that AK
>and Sons!!)
>
>
in 1987-88 named their personal boat Das Vi Danya,
although it was in Russian and my English spelling may be off.
Andy
OSU '85-'88
Clyde W Voigtlander
>>
> Gotta another for the collection... A four that used to row at Oregon State
> in 1987-88 named their personal boat Das Vi Danya,
> although it was in Russian and my English spelling may be off.
Two others come to mind. Back in the golden days of French racing
commands (remember Etes vous prez?), the Wisconsin women had an 8
entitled "ne prez" -- born ready. Also, a sculler in our club had a 1x
entitled "so notare" -- I can swim.
--
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JMoag
<Gotta another for the collection... A four that used to row at Oregon
State
in 1987-88 named their personal boat Das Vi Danya,
although it was in Russian and my English spelling may be off.
Yeah, that was a lightweight quad rowed by Charlie Owen, Shawn Steinmetz,
Scott Telford and another guy I used to know.
Das v'danya is Russian for "see you later," or something like that. The
name on the boat was actually done in Russian letters, and was misspelled
in that language.
(That's as far as I'm going to go with this, because the last time I got
involved in correcting anyone's spelling on rsr I got flamed as an
anal-retentive by a couple Harvard guys, who actually do have all the
answers.)
Andy, say hi to Shawn and Charlie if you see them around Corvallis.
Jeff
David Simas
smile: 'Skookumchuck'. It was named after a river in Washington state.
On the subject of interesting boats, LWRC also had the only triple I've ever
seen. For some peculiar reason, it was usually rigged as a sculling boat.
David S.
Amy Abbot
Both boats still reside in the Garfield Boathouse (LWRC Annex) and are
well used and loved.
Amy
Joel Furtek
rk...@fulton.seas.virginia.edu (Robert K. Wright, III) writes:
> At our boathouse, there is a blue and yellow double with the name
> "Blue Bayou".
>
>
> -Rob Wright
Which is also the name of an eight owned by Hamilton college (motto: Docks are
for Wimps -- they wade into the icy Mohawk River).
The boat's former name, when it was owned by Yale, was The Sequanuk. No idea
where _that_ came from...
Joel
Joel A. Furtek Coach, Novice Women's Rowing On Yule Farm
YLC - EARC 89,90 University of Virginia with Carol
Grad Ex Phys Varsity in 1995-6! Kona & Elsa
David Jay Lynch
) writes:
>
>I am looking for great boat names. Preferably with a good story behind
>it. Here's my first example:
>
>"Pony Off A Lemon"
>
"Ex Omnibus Unum" (loosely, "Out of many, one").
It isn't always the funniest name I've ever seen, but when the boat is
filled with novices....
David Lynch
davi...@netcom.com
Bene remige et vive!
Robert K. Wright, III
O
the late 70's/early 80's there was a boat named "Wood boats are best."
This could be seen on a rack outside Plasted Hall (RIP), rotting in the
elements.
While at Amherst College, we had a boat, an old, indestructible Pocock,
which was used by novice rowers named the "R. B. Trary VIII"
Joel Furtek
David Simas <dsi...@ats.orst.edu> writes:
> Lake Washington Rowing Club has (or had) a double whose name always msde me
> smile: 'Skookumchuck'. It was named after a river in Washington state.
>
Skookumchuck is a Native American (sorry, I've forotten which tribe) word for
"strong running water.'
Cooler than the nearby (but different tribe) Cle Elum, which means the same.
Boy, am I a fountain of useless information or what?
joel
William Wadsworth
W.W.
William Wadsworth
W.W.
Captain Clayhead
>
>
>Adam ELGAR <ael...@firsteurop.win-uk.net> wrote:
>>
>>FRED (F..king Rediculous Econonmic Disaster)
>
>
>Re boatnames, one of my old clubs named a wooden four after the muck
>that'd been growing on it. If it wasn't Spirogyra, then it was
>something very similar and equally unpronouncable.
>
>Fred
One of our club boats was crashed, and then renovated. So much
work was done on it that the name was changed from Gannet to
Metempsychotic Gannet. The guy who maintains the boats
used to be and English Master ...
CC
Christopher Russo
Rowed with a double from the Mad Dog RC (The NU Alumni RC, I think) that had
the name "Oxygen Debt." At least they were honest. :)
Anyway, since we're talking about funny names, maybe one of the Brits on this
group could tell me who was wearing the "Beavereaters" shirts at Henley.
Tried like hell to trade for one, but they wouldn't budge.
Chris Russo
MIT Cogen Project
cru...@mit.edu
Trevor Chambers
Beavereaters, done in the same way as Beefeaters (as in sponsors
of the Boat Race) is Oxford Brookes.
Full marks to them for cheekiness :-)
Trev
Sudbury RC
Mark Hayter
|>
|> Beavereaters, done in the same way as Beefeaters (as in sponsors
|> of the Boat Race) is Oxford Brookes.
|>
|> Full marks to them for cheekiness :-)
|>
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt...
A few years ago (87 maybe) the Lady Margaret Boat Club 2nd
VIII made up crew shirts with the "Porkeater" logo. The
first time we passed the Goldie boat one of them burst out
laughing and the rest had severe "sense of humor failure"s!
We went on to win Senior C (that long ago!) at the
Cambridge Regatta, so cheekiness clearly has its rewards :-)
Mark
andypau...@gmail.com
The original "Beavereaters" crew was my old Oxford Poly crew that raced at HRR in 1990. I had rowed at Leander in 1988/89 and obtained a OUBC Beefeater Gin sweatshirt which formed the basis of the Beavereaters top. Whilst at the Poly, drunken nights out with crew mates would usually involve the phrases of "Goin' Sharkin" and "Goin' on a Beaver hunt", not that any of us got close to anything of the sort. The Beaver Hunt evolved quickly into Beavereaters as a mild piss take on OUBC. Blue and white tops were made and the legend born, underlined when we became the first ever Poly crew to take on and beat Isis II whilst training in Wallingford. We also beat the UL 2nd eight and raced the UL 1st eight to within 1/2 a length at Gent. I think the first 8 race with the blue tops and the second 8 raced in the white ones, though my memory after 30 years is a little vague on that one.
Thankfully OBUBC continued the Beavereaters tradition.
The original boat name of one of the old Poly eights was "Raging Bull" which is the on the crest of OPBC, a snorting bull's head. We wanted to call the new Sims eight that we got at Easter 1990, "Mad Cow", but the powers that be didn't think such a name was suitable. Our crew always referred to the boat as Mad Cow.
Regards
Andy
On Wednesday, 12 July 1995 08:00:00 UTC+1, Adam ELGAR wrote:
> Off the baten track I've seen a few good names (aside from the
> beloved Pony).
>
> Here's a couple:
>
> Corixa (Latin: Lesser waterboatman)
>
>
>
> the squad t & sweat shirts that have stuck in my mind:
>
>
> WILD OAR KIDS Oxford Bookes Women (I think)
>
> BEAVEREATERS WIN(in the style of a well known purveyor of gin and
> boat race sponsor) Oxford Brookes again I belive
>
> If they have t shirts with it on the Bay Area Rowing Club
> (Houston)'s BEST LITTLE OARHOUSE IN TEXAS would take some beating
>
>
> Course then there was our own (given that some unkind people refer
> to our fine institution as 'Funeral') Who's Funeral?.. (on the
> front) .... Yours! (on the back)
>
>
> BTW have any Tideway rowers noticed that Hammersmith Council have
> regonised which is the premier club on their strech of river by
> painting Hammersmith bridge in Myrtle & Old Gold (Take that AK
> and Sons!!)
>
>
Henry Law
> The original "Beavereaters" crew was my old Oxford Poly crew that raced at HRR in 1990
ago (I wonder whether that's a record), I was interested to note that
Brooks was a force in college rowing before it was Brooks, if you see
what I mean.
My club acquired an ancient Empacher 8 (a wooden one) which had been
around a bit. It never had a name when we used it, but I later
discovered that it had been at Dundee University BC long before we got
it; they had named it "Taytanic".
--
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Manchester, England
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Peas in a quad
4 girls 1 cox
Octapussy
etc.
Hot single in your area (on a 1x) gave me a chuckle recently
One guy on reddit r/rowing opened a vote and the winner was "this name takes up the entire side of my boat" which he dutifully applied for his next event.
Kit Davies
"Non Sequitur" - on a Cygnet RC pair years ago.
Kit
Rebecca Caroe
it's a story book full of things like this ..... may I have your permission to use this?
do message me first name [at] surname dot com
In years past I used a couple of fine tales from RSR - the Alastair's one about Andy Ripley in the Boat Race trial crews being coached by Harry Mahon and Robin Williams
And a totally comedic one about 3 Seat on the Tideway doing 'nothing wrong'. which was anonymous... but you can probably track it down!
Coach JD
> I am looking for great boat names. Preferably with a good story behind
> it. Here's my first example:
> "Pony Off A Lemon"
> Bridge, London. This club was full of great London characters. They
> bought a new quad and were going to do the usual and name it after a
> venerable, old member like the "Fred Smith" or somesuch name.
> Instead a couple of codgers at the club had second thoughts one drunken
> night and decided to give it a more inspiring name. Something that
> described the boat in action. They settled on "That boat goes like shit
> off a shovel".
> Realizing that this was a little long and probably unseemly for
> passersby on the banks of the Thames they translated it into Cockney
> Rhyming slang "Pony Off A Lemon" (Pony & Trap = Crap; Lemonade=Spade).
> You can imagine the reaction at the boat unveiling when everyone was
> expecting it to be called the Fred Smith and there was the gold
> italicized moniker "ony Off A Lemon" painted on its bow.
> Any more great boat names welcom
Coach JD
RS
Roger
Richard
> Weybridge Rowing club used to have the best boat names, all Wey something. Wey enough , wey too much etc. Used to be a list on their website
Weyward
Quickest Wey
Quickest Wey To...
Always Another Wey
Another Wey
Move aWey
One Wey
Chocks A'Wey
Wey Hey
Wey Better Together
AnyWey
Hands A'Wey
That's the Wey
FeatherWeyt
This Wey Up
Other Wey Up
LightWeyt
Milky Wey
Wey To Do It
Our Wey
Wey To Go
Winning Weys
Wicked Weys
Either Wey
HeavyWeyt
FlyWeyt
Allawey
Tear A'Wey
Run aWey
Stow aWey
Didn't realise they had such a huge fleet. Or that so many "Wey" puns were possible. ;-)
PS Weybridge Rowing Club are hoping that the covid-19 situation continues to ease and that they will be able to hold the Weybridge Silver Sculls (appropriately modified if necessary) on 17 October. More info on the event website - https://www.weybridgerowing.club/silversculls. Fingers crossed that the covid-19, weather, UK Government, Environment Agency and British Rowing restrictions will allow some form of on-water competition to start again soon.
Kit Davies
;)
Kit
carl
once had boats with names from the Communist Manifesto, one being (I
think) "Victory of the Proletariat". Don't know if they won any races ;)
Weybridge RC could go a bit American, with "Wey Nuff"?
Hat & coat time!
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Neil James
> On 01/09/2020 22:23, Kit Davies wrote:
>> Kit
>
> I believe that London School of Economics, that 5th column of rowing,
> once had boats with names from the Communist Manifesto, one being (I
> think) "Victory of the Proletariat". Don't know if they won any races ;)
>
> Weybridge RC could go a bit American, with "Wey Nuff"?
>
> Hat & coat time!
> Carl
>
consisted of 3 sections:
1. A single stern section,
2. A coxless bow section, and
3. A coxed bow section.
One bow section was called "Dictatorship of the Proletariat" and the
other "Tyranny of the Bourgeoisie".
They were acquired in the time when the late Colin Ellis was captain
though whether it was his idea I cannot say.
Neil
Richard
Kit Davies
It was (is) a private 4x/- boat bought by some Walton members who gave
it the name as a cheeky dig at the increasingly large "Wey"-themed
fleet. I scull it occasionally. Good boat.
Kit
carl
AKA Vampire.
Cheers -
RS
https://www.row2k.com/features/61/The-Refoundation-of-the-London-School-of-Economics-Soviet-Socialist-Rowingclub--LSE-SSR-/
carl
> https://www.row2k.com/features/61/The-Refoundation-of-the-London-School-of-Economics-Soviet-Socialist-Rowingclub--LSE-SSR-/
>
Cheers -
Henry Law
> https://www.row2k.com/features/61/The-Refoundation-of-the-London-School-of-Economics-Soviet-Socialist-Rowingclub--LSE-SSR-/
guffaws.
Charles Ehrlich is a name I recognise; he used to post here now and again.
Mark Liddell
> There's an article on Row2k about the reformation of the LSE boat club
> https://www.row2k.com/features/61/The-Refoundation-of-the-London-School-of-Economics-Soviet-Socialist-Rowingclub--LSE-SSR-/