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Forum: General Sailing Forum

06-03-2021, 15:27

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Sailboat names

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Posted By DMF Sailing

Re: Sailboat names

Ha! The settlers got tired of remembering that contorted English spelling of it as they moved west, and eventually when they were naming towns out there they just wrote down what they were saying,...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

06-03-2021, 09:00

Replies: 114

Sailboat names

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Posted By DMF Sailing

Re: Sailboat names

There's a fun little name 18 nm northeast of Boston that's wrong but no one's changing it. Marblehead's 17th-century founders misidentified the rock that forms the cliffs bracketing its excellent...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

05-03-2021, 20:49

Replies: 114

Sailboat names

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Posted By DMF Sailing

Re: Sailboat names

I can confirm that the city of Worcester, Mass. is pronounced "Wuhstuh", so the sauce has always been "Wuhstuh-sheah"

Massholes have fun with newbies with our mispronunciation of English-looking...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

05-03-2021, 16:09

Replies: 114

Sailboat names

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Posted By DMF Sailing

Re: Sailboat names

I like Jini, too. If you're into this sort of thing, Jini offers the possibility of cool illustration to go along with the name.

One of the best names I've seen on a boat was Le Petit Prince,...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

05-03-2021, 12:16

Replies: 114

Sailboat names

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Posted By DMF Sailing

Re: Sailboat names

Yah, there's a boat in Boston Harbor called "Statutory Gripe." That's just bad in so many ways.

there is, by the way, a bad pun that sticks with the original poster's name and contains an...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

04-03-2021, 20:07

Replies: 114

Sailboat names

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Posted By DMF Sailing

Re: Sailboat names

You'd want that one on a speedboat that buzzes kayakers

Or a Moody 42 that blows through a dinghy race

Forum: General Sailing Forum

04-03-2021, 18:25

Replies: 114

Sailboat names

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Posted By DMF Sailing

Re: Sailboat names

One last thought:

You could go with cool Nemo-related names

Mysterious (after the island)

Aronnax (after the professor)

Prince Dakkar (Nemo's real name)