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02-06-2013, 20:06
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Vancouver, BC & Seattle, WA
Posts: 635
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Re: What does the name of your boat say about you?
s/v Suede
Been my nickname for a couple decades. Seemed the most appropriate name for the boat. It's instantly identifiable as mine by all who know me. The other nicknames associated with me over the years; 'Taco Breath', 'RC' (rotten colon), & 'Milkdud', were never universally recognised monikers & didn't seem appropriate. So Suede it was, is, and forever will be.
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02-06-2013, 20:07
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#17
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Sioux Falls, SD
Boat: Carver 3207 Aft Cabin, 32'
Posts: 289
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CourtShip. Because (1) my wife is an attorney and I'm a court administrator and our jobs pay for the boat and (2) we inspected the boat and closed the deal on the weekend of the big royal wedding in 2011, and (3) when we have guests along they're almost always a mob of court and legal people, and finally (4) the stress-relief of coffee on the flybridge in the morning reinforces marital bliss.
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02-06-2013, 20:18
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#18
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Sai Kung, Hong Kong
Boat: FP Lavezzi 40 / Hatteras 48
Posts: 775
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Re: What does the name of your boat say about you?
s/v Loon was named by us after the bird. It also is quite an apt description of her crew.
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02-06-2013, 20:26
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Nanny State
Boat: 22' Westerly Nomad
Posts: 594
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Re: What does the name of your boat say about you?
Travelnik is a combination of the English word Travel, and the Slovak word Putnik, which translates to Wanderer, Wayfarer, Pilgrim. 
It's a fun, quirky name, and I think it goes well with a Nomad.
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A 14-foot mini-cruiser is minimalist. A 19ft is comfortable, and anything much larger than a 25 borders on ostentatious.
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02-06-2013, 21:29
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Elvish meaning 'Far-Wanderer'
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Boat - Greece - Me - Michigan
Boat: 56' Fountaine Pajot Marquises
Posts: 3,489
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Re: What does the name of your boat say about you?
That I'm a Tolkienite
Aldarion was the Heir to the King of Númenor. He was a great captain and adventurer, to the dismay of his father, who wished his son to spend his youth on the island he would one day rule. Aldarion, though, felt the call of the sea, and he built himself a vast ship, larger than any that had been seen at that time. He called it PALARRAN, an Elvish name meaning 'Far-Wanderer', and in it he journeyed the Great Sea to Middle-Earth.
JRR Tolkien, The Silmarillion
We have crew shirts with the flag of Gondor on them and the Tolkien quote "Not all who wander are lost" on the back. I also had a Gondor flag made.
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Dante
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02-06-2013, 21:38
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Me Houston boat TMM Tortola
Boat: Nautitech Open 46
Posts: 218
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Re: What does the name of your boat say about you?
Mine says I "sell steel" for sub sea oil production. That's what paid for her.
Regards
Paul
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02-06-2013, 21:42
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2003
Boat: Dragonfly 1000 trimaran
Posts: 7,265
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Re: What does the name of your boat say about you?
Flexible Flyer, because I'm flexible and can fly...
Actually, it's because it folds, and is named after my favorite snow sled when I was a kid.
Fast and unbelievably steerable.
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02-06-2013, 22:10
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Philippines in the winters
Boat: It’s in French Polynesia now
Posts: 11,372
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Re: What does the name of your boat say about you?
"Ugly Duckling" Because it's not quite a Swan. 
Her logo........
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02-06-2013, 22:43
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CF Adviser
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: sausalito
Boat: 14 meter sloop
Posts: 7,260
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Re: What does the name of your boat say about you?
Quote:
Originally Posted by lillypink
What does the name of your boat say about you?
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The names of my boats have always been about the boat, not about me.
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02-06-2013, 23:07
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Virginia, USA
Posts: 14
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Re: What does the name of your boat say about you?
I am sadly boatless and mountain-bound at present, but I've already picked out a name for her when I get her! "Stella Maris", which means "Star of the Sea" in Latin, and it is also an ancient title. Bonus points if you know the history of the title. Hopefully what it says about me is that I'm great at picking names...
Edit: actually I have a coracle (because there is nothing so worthwhile as messing about in boats) so I may not be technically boatless, although it is really designed for someone 60lbs lighter so it sinks alot. Fortunately/unfortunately the river is generally only a couple feet deep.... Stella Maris is a good name for a coracle too, since its only about the size of a star in the sky...
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02-06-2013, 23:32
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Northern California
Boat: Owens
Posts: 204
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Bliss
Because after 23 years of marriage it is the way we still feel with one another. Had we discovered how blissful swinging on an anchor was we woulda bought one years ago.
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Craig
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02-06-2013, 23:59
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: sailing south
Boat: Ericson 35-2
Posts: 330
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Re: What does the name of your boat say about you?
Red Herring. Kinda made sense for a Russian-crewed boat in a Canadian round-the-cans racing club
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03-06-2013, 00:11
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#28
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Cruising the Eastern Caribbean
Boat: Beneteau 473
Posts: 772
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First boat: Tomorrow -- because we were so busy in our lives we were always going to go sailing tomorrow.
Current boat: Smart Move -- she came with that name (from England), we kept it because we felt it reflected our move from land to boat and cruising.
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03-06-2013, 01:00
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#29
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Scarborough Queensland Australia
Boat: Hunter 44DS
Posts: 274
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Re: What does the name of your boat say about you?
I 've just bought a boat and it is named Perseides II, after googleing it I find that it is a meteorite shower that appears every August in the northern hemisphere. I am not superstitious but I am not going to change the name, (Just In Case). The boat was from Canada.
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03-06-2013, 04:09
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Building a Bateau TW28
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Iroquois, Ontario
Boat: Bateau TW28 Long Cabin
Posts: 3,585
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Re: What does the name of your boat say about you?
She:Kon, pronounced "Say-go" is a traditional Iroquois greeting that means "Do you still have the Great Peace?". The Great Peace is the cornerstone of the Iroquois belief system.
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