Catchy or Witty Boat Names

[sailingunity]

"Perseverance VII"

I suppose if their on number 7 now, that makes them pretty perseverant .

[Tayana42]

Two boat names I’ve seen recently that say something about the negotiations we undertake to be boat owners. Incidentally, there were both power boats.
*She’s Right*
*Yes Dear*

[One Day More]

Bought a trailer sailer once owned by a medical family. They presumably thought the name was funny. ‘Dry Reach’.

[One Day More]

If I ever owned a racing monohull would call it ‘Upside Potential’

[Dave_S]

For the more anti-social

Go Away
Shove Off
Push Off

[JPA Cate]

...Then there was "Sloop de Jour", nickname Sloopy.

....and "Aqualibrium",

...and "Susan's Floor" ***she didn't get the new floor, and he got the boat

All for now,

Ann

[Stu Jackson]

In Garibaldi, OR, in 2016:


Northern Spy
Vancouver, BC

[Don C L]

My first boat's name was "Magic Twanger." Now I wonder if anyone knows what that referenced?? At the time I didn't like it, but now I think its a good one......for somebody else....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H35odPm7b3w

[jmorrison146]

Never Again II

[apirate]

SV Your Mom

[mottseng]

Don't know if this has been mentioned already.

"MPT Pockets"

[Ex-Calif]

We've been thinking about names. A bit morbid but meant to be humorous

No Muearas
Cartagena, Colombia

- or -
No Te Hundas

[KeelMe]

I once saw a Catalina 30 named "Titan Uranus".

[Perfusser]

My current boat is Assylum- as she is my place of retreat and security, spelt with a double S because she is a fat bottomed girl. Seemed appropriate because I am a Mental health Nurse who likes to race a bit.

My next boat I will name after my wife SHWHOMBO - SHe WHO Must be Obeyed.

[senormechanico]

Originally Posted by KeelMe

I once saw a Catalina 30 named "Titan Uranus".

Must have been named after this ship.








I thought it might be photoshopped, but here's another shot.
Titan Uranus Hoax – Solved – Maritime Accident Casebook


Titan Uranus Hoax – Solved

Articles

Sep 112009

Titan Uranus – Real or Photoshopped?

A while back MAC checked out the photograph claiming to be the Titan Uranus and determined that the photograph was a hoax – the vessel’s IMO number, clearly visible, belongs to another Titan ship, Titan Taurus. Since then there have been various claims that the ship did exist and that it was the renamed Titan Taurus, so we checked at little further and here’s the truth about the Titan Uranus.
In fact there was not one Titan Uranus but two, and around another two dozen ships with the name Uranus in their names.

The first Titan Uranus was built in 1974 as an oil product tanker by the name of Da Qing 213 flagged in the PRC. By 2002 she had been acquired by Titan and put under the Singapore flag and renamed Titan Uranus. Her callsign was S6CF7 and her IMO number 7614252. She appears to have gone to that great scrapyard in the sky in 2004.
Shift gears: An ore carrier built in the mid-1990s first seems to have carried the name Diamond Echo, then renamed the Sina, then in 2004… you guessed it, Titan Uranus. Two years later she was the Titan Taurus and as of 2007 was K Cosmos, now flagged in Korea.
The photograph seems to have been circulated since 2006, about the time the ship’s name was changed, and may have triggered the change, so it may be genuine but there are inconsistencies that still suggest a bit of photoshopping has gone into it.
So, for the moment we can positively say that there was a vessel named Titan Uranus, two in fact. But it remains to be seen whether or not the photograph is genuine.
Of course, the name sounds scatological when pronounced the correct English way, ‘your-anus’, but less so in the prissier pronunciation ‘you-ran-us’, which may be why its meaning was overlooked.
But we’ll put that behind us.
There’s still hope for a few schoolboy smirks. Would anybody really want to be astern of Uranus Gas? She’s out there somewhere.


EDIT: I was pretty sure I'd seen some ship called that a few years ago.
Now I remember !

It was a mid sized commercial boat (100- 150 feet maybe?) in the Ballard Ship Canal, and I saw it during a powerboat delivery.

Has anyone else seen it?