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osirissail · 28-10-2009, 19:25

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Originally Posted by sailstoo

"Freudian Sloop"

Love it - with your permission I will use the phase in the future - who says you can't learn anything new on these forums . . .
- - And a lot of the names of boats reflect the creativity of the owner and a micro statement of his/her life.
- - While in Luperon many years ago we met a couple on a sailboat named "Honey, I Want" - - - - The poor man has a very demanding wife and like a parrot she started all her sentences with that phrase, so he explained to us it was a fitting name for his boat.

Chief Engineer · 28-10-2009, 20:26

I don't like most boat names.

Cute, artsy-fartsy. double entendre, or cryptic....Blechh.

I kept the name of my Ericson....it's ok...a little cutesy but describes the lack of wind on the Chesterpeake in the middle of summer....when it is just a whisper

Chipg · 28-10-2009, 22:05

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Originally Posted by Therapy

As is quite common but it is still used by many and quoted.

Maybe that is why so many these days a just wrong but know they are right.

Yep, anyone can change / edit the info on Wikipedia, I wonder if you can ad your boat name?

Wikipedia is written collaboratively by an international group of volunteers. Anyone with internet access can write and make changes to Wikipedia articles. There are no requirements to provide one's real name when contributing; rather, each writer's privacy is protected unless they choose to reveal their identity themselves. Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference web sites, attracting around 65 million visitors monthly as of 2009. There are more than 75,000 active contributors working on more than 14,000,000 articles in more than 260 languages. As of today, there are 3,078,086 articles in English. Every day, hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world collectively make tens of thousands of edits and create thousands of new articles to augment the knowledge held by the Wikipedia encyclopedia. (See also: Wikipedia:Statistics.)

Stillraining · 28-10-2009, 22:15

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Originally Posted by Chipg

Yep, anyone can change / edit the info on Wikipedia, I wonder if you can ad your boat name?

Wikipedia is written collaboratively by an international group of volunteers. Anyone with internet access can write and make changes to Wikipedia articles. There are no requirements to provide one's real name when contributing; rather, each writer's privacy is protected unless they choose to reveal their identity themselves. Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference web sites, attracting around 65 million visitors monthly as of 2009. There are more than 75,000 active contributors working on more than 14,000,000 articles in more than 260 languages. As of today, there are 3,078,086 articles in English. Every day, hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world collectively make tens of thousands of edits and create thousands of new articles to augment the knowledge held by the Wikipedia encyclopedia. (See also: Wikipedia:Statistics.)

COOL!! Finally I can take out my revenge and screw with people..

Chipg · 28-10-2009, 22:25

I was thinking Wikipedia defenitions of your boats name might be really fun to put a link to it in your avatar and a pic. It would come in hand for the difficult names

vacendak · 29-10-2009, 10:15

A guy in our marina owned a Dufour 27 called "Ad Nauseam" (Until Seasick)
now he bougth a Carter 30 and named it "Single Malt"

IMHO he meant that No. 2 is a cure for No. 1

Cloud IX · 29-10-2009, 10:23

The Admiral named out boat "Cloud IX". She then bought a Trinka dinghy, with white hull, stored on the flying bridge and named it "Cirrus"

High Heels · 02-11-2009, 07:47

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Originally Posted by defjef

High Heels

So defjef, have you ever seen a boat named this? I haven't and made it my user name since it was the name I imagined for my very own little racing J Boat someday ;0) The first boat I own with my Husband and it was just too girly a name. I love shoes, sold them at Nordstrom at one point, and joke is I never wear High Heels, so closest I come is heeling over on a sailboat...

Other boat names I have come across that made an impression...on Chesapeake Bay in the early 90s there were some good racing boat names...

"Shamalamadingdong" - My husband's favorite

"Aunt Jean" - The owner bought the boat with the inheritance his Aunt Jean left him.

blue noser · 02-11-2009, 17:20

great forum, and lots of fun, i really like one a guy has at the club here in nova scotia

vitamin sea

maytrix · 09-11-2009, 07:12

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Originally Posted by clockwork orange

Not generally a fan of stupid names but there is a photo sequence i saw on the net of a 27ft cat pitchpoling taken from a boat in front,way cool,anyway the cats name was "Cat Sass".
Another i saw many moons ago was a boat that some guy had built from scrounged materials in Fiji or the Cook islands that he appropriatly named "Maid of Dunnage",this was in the 1970s and was sort of a poke at a bunch of well known British race boats with names like "Maid of Mallam" and "Maid of Endor" or something like that.
Steve.

I chartered a boat a week ago. It's name was Cat Sass II. 47' Catamaran from the Moorings so its probably not related. We got some good laughs from anyone we had to give the name to.

cantxsailor · 09-11-2009, 08:13

My 31yo Pacific Seacraft 25 is named "Turtle" because she reminded me of an old sea turtle. Tough and kind of slow. When I bought her the name was Malia. I changed that almost right away without trouble as it was nowhere to be found on the boat.

It was also long before the election. I have since found that the Presidents older daughter is named Malia. A hawaiian word(malia or malio) for "the sky just before dawn". A very pretty word picture but to me it just didn't describe the way the boat "talks" to me........m