Boat Names

[mackid068]

What did you name your boat? What would you name your boat? Me, I like the name "Money Pit."

[icetreader]

I named my first boat model W1: "W" after the shape of its cross section and "1" since it's the first...
Difficult to get less inspired than that, isn't it?
Then I named my two fishing models "F2" and "F4" after the number of integrated rod holders each has, which proves it actually is possible to get less inspired!

Yoav

PS-- Hey Mackid, congratulations on your becoming a "senior member"!

[mackid068]

Oh, I'm far, far from a senior member

[Eric Sponberg]

I named my first large (27') sailboat Duprass, which comes from Kurt Vonnegut's book, "Cat's Cradle". A Duprass is a specialized form of "Karass". Vonnegut explains that a karass is the group of people you are typically involved with at any given time, that is, your circle of friends and co-workers. It changes all the time. A Duprass is a karass of only two people. It is an intense karass, and no other people can be a part of it, not even the children that result from the marriage of two people in a Duprass. Loosely defined, it can be interpreted as "a nation of two". My wife and I thought this an appropriate name for a small boat carrying us across a big ocean.

My favorite name that I have seen on a sailboat is "Never Again VI".

Eric

[marshmat]

My first (and she still runs nice) is called Sunset Chaser.... name came from flying westbound over the prairies one day, sunset stretched out for hours at mach 0.9. Hence the 30hp runabout gets her name.

[blared]

I named mine ( Handmade )

[JimCooper]

Names are hard

My first fishing boat I named "Seven" it was the number of pieces of stamped paper I had to have before I could deploy my nets. Everyone hated it for a start but now years on, it comes easily to the tongue . They turned down my first name choice it was something rude in Gaelic and the bastards looked it up ! Just how I felt after my first taste of mindless pedantic govt clerks.

Seven was good but if I'd used Seventy then I could have added two three four .... for my following boats and saved all those nights trying to find another name!

Whatever you choose after a while it fits. Saw one yacht (German) called Schnuckleputz. Always wondered what that meant. Sounds lovely

Cheers
Jim

[LP]

My boats name is Eve N Temper. She is the first boat I built. Thus, I wanted Eve in the name. Temper is what flared at times, during the build, EveN though I tried to control it. As I was shaping the centerboard, I was thinking, "Wouldn't someone feel really stupid if they were to shape this thing backwards," as I realized thats what I was doing. It took everything I had to keep from throwing the belt sander acrossed the shop.

[SamSam]

My first boat was in Marathon. A 16' cuddy cabin thing with no trailer but 2 or three extra motors for parts. Overnight it would take on about 6" of water sitting in the canal, which was a nuisance (and a surprise, no one told me it leaked) because it had no bilge pump. So I pulled it and repaired the crack down the center of the boat. You'd think that between 3 or 4 motors 1 starter could be salvaged, but no, nor a tilt mechanism. So the procedure for starting the '60's vintage 80hp Johnson was to take out the 2x4 prop and lower the bohemoth into the water without mashing your fingers or being thrown overboard by the momentum. After removing the 20-30 lb engine cover, passengers and kids were sent to the cabin to avoid being lashed by the starting rope which was hooked in a notch in the flywheel, wound around 3 or 4 times and pulled about 10 times in a manner exactly like hitting a home run, but in reverse. Has anybody ever ripped a fingernail down the middle all the way to the cuticle? I have. Strangly enough it never did NOT start or quit and strand us in the Gulf or the ocean, but apparently it had a bad coil or something where only 2 or 3 of the 4 cylinders normally worked, what did I know, it sounded fine to me. In the year or so that I had the boat, 2 or 3 times that other cylinder would unexpectedly kick in and seemingly double the horsepower instantly throwing anybody that wasn't sitting or securely attached to something onto the floor of the boat. After awhile I bought a used 14' painted steel trailer for it. The combination of extreme overloading and being dipped in heavily salted water worked amazingly fast to collapse the loaded trailer in the yard. Taking a cue from the brand name plaque on the side of the cabin, Blue Buoy, the color of the cabin, sky blue, and the operational characteristics, I put BLUE BALLS across the transom in the biggest letters I could. Sam

[BillyDoc]

Documented boats require unique names . . . so is there an on-line listing of documented boat names anywhere?

My first was named "Poiesis" and was documented. Not much demand for that one, I bet! The next will probably be "Lieserl" if it's available. (Lieserl was Einstein's bastard daughter.)

[Bergalia]

I don't believe any boat name can be unique... unless you invent the original word. I've had two Snafu's - and met another half dozen in my travels.
With reference to our Aberdeen correspondent - I've also had three Gaelic named boats - named after islands on the west coast of Scotland, as in 'Eilean Eishdahl'; 'Eilean Sgean'; 'Eilean Bhaga'. But for pure Gaelic 'Up you shiney arsed bureaucrats" how about 'Ceartas' (pronounce kerr-tass)with a multiple of meanings - 'Freedom, justice, and independence.'
And you do know, of course, that it's bad luck to name a boat before she's launched... or to rename a boat, even on change of ownership.

[BillyDoc]

Hi Bergalia,

I love the name 'Ceartas' for its sound and its meaning! Do you mind if I use it?

I doubt very much if any US bureaucrat would look it up, or understand that it is an "up yours" if he did. We don't do "intellectual" here, it's officially against US government policy. You see, we are now "faith based." As in "faith based" air traffic control, engineering, medical treatment, education . . . heck, just about everything except weapons production. It's the dawn of a new era of ignorance. Praise the Lord!

By "unique" I was refering to the fact that US documented boats are identified by their name, and that has to be "unique" to US documented boats. Undocumented vessels can be called anything their owner likes (as far as I know). I once saw a glossy black super-fast boat (a Cigarette?) appropriately named "Priapus." I wonder of the women on board could translate that . . .

BillyDoc

[Bergalia]

BillyDoc - And as we say in the Gaelic 'Ceade Mille Ghu...' A hundred thousand wecomes'... use 'Ceartas' by all means.And do't forget the pronounciation: Kerr-tass. And may the freedom, independence, and justice of the seas be yours.
Max (bergalia)

[Bergalia]

BillyDoc - And as we say in the Gaelic 'Ceade Mille Ghu...' A hundred thousand wecomes'... use 'Ceartas' by all means.And don't forget the pronounciation: Kerr-tass. And may the freedom, independence, and justice of the seas be yours.
Max (bergalia)

[JimCooper]

Billy

tapadh leat oileanach a th' annam.
re beagan gàidhlig : tha mi a' sgrìobhadh

Jim