How Did You Name Your Boat?

[BoatWriter]

Hello all!

I am a freelance writer from Canada's beautiful Wet Coast, researching a piece on boat names. Please take a moment to email me ( gould_george@hotmail.com ) your boat name, its make, year and model along with a brief description of the thought process that came up with the name. Even if it seems obvious.

Thank you.

May the sun always warm your topside.

George

[Zanshin]

George,
I think it would serve the interests of the forum and members more if they were to post the information you are interested in to this thread, thus everyone will benefit from some interesting nomenclature and boat genaeology.

[BoatWriter]

Either way works for me.

Sail on!

George

[Guesser]

I bought my boat in seriously dilapidated condition. It was named Leanna after the original owners daughter and she (the boat) needed a complete overhaul. Everything from plumbing and electrical, to standing rigging and sails. After many thousands of dollars and a few weeks on the hard, we conducting a purging ceremony, followed by a renaming ceremony (and yes we did use a real virgin). The new name, fittingly is....

[sailingdog]

Are you using John Vigor's denaming/renaming ceremony??

[ianhlnd]

Interesting question, some owners name their boat for family or combinations of family names, some frivilous "hole in the water" (maybe not that frivilous.

I didn't name my current boat, I used the name it came with. It had once been "julia" which was person specific and had been renamed by the previous owner to its current name.

As my wife had died of cancer 5 years before this purchase, I was looking for something that would remind me of her, and the boat's name said it all:

[sailingdog]

Ian-

I can empathize with you, as my boat was bought five years after my wife died of cancer as well. The boat is named after the ICQ handle I gave her when she and I were dating.

[Guesser]

Originally Posted by sailingdog

Are you using John Vigor's denaming/renaming ceremony??

We started with Vigor's denaming ceremony, but then added a few nutty, little things people had recommended and insisted must be done to save our souls. One of them had to do with urine from a virgin Native American women, (which, proudly, I was able to obtain), but I'll leave it at that.

[ianhlnd]

Thanks dog, very nice of you, sorry about your wife. You want to hear something even worse, The girl I've been seeing the most of now has cancer and they've told her that there's nothing more they can do. That's why Im not on as much as usual, I take her to alternative medicine every day, 40 miles away. It's a horrible disease.

[ianhlnd]

Guesser:

urine from a virgin Native American women, (which, proudly, I was able to obtain),

but we want to know heh-heh-heh