Boat Names

[Sasha_V]

We have a bit fo a fleet besides the big(is) boat. Small boat names are somewhat more whimsical.

We have have a 100 year old Huon Pine sailing dinghy called FRAPP! (The really bad sound it makes if you come in to dock too hard and happen to know how much a plank of Huon Pine is worth).

We have an inlfatable tender that was happily nameless until our nearly two year old son got to go for a ride in it. He walked up to wear it was sitting on the grass, touched the bow and proclaimed "DUCK!"...Nice to know he already has the lingo down pat. So Duck it is. (When strapped to the back of Fortis we end up with Brave Duck...which my wife finds amusing and appropriate)

We have a canoe...Named Gnu

And a little while ago I bought my wife her own Herron sailing dinghy, which will be raced in various degrees of seriousness....It was promptly
dubbed A'GNOTHER'GNU (Because watching usually elderly and very proper club commadores stumble on that during trophy presentation nights would be a good inspiration to win the trophies).


Sasha

[Bill Mc]

I heard a Mayday on the VHF and thought I was listening to a comedy. The Coasties didn't think it was to funny. The occupant of the vessel had no clue where they where and both their engines wouldn't run. The Tx sounded like this,.

(MV) Mayday mayday mayday this is Frayed Knot over.
(CG) Captain could you state the name of you vessel again and explain your emergency.
(MV) Frayed Knot over.

As you can imagine this went on for over 30 min. A large ship was summoned to assist and a CG Airplane to locate them. I thought I was going to die laughing.......

Fair Winds,

Bill

[Lancer28]

Mine was named after a gunship in viet nam that the previous owner flew... "Honah Lee" The dinghy was "Puff"... the Racing Dinghy, and this is great, is called "Jacky Paper".

Ok, so enough for blah... the other Dinghy I have, is called "Das Dink". No reason, I just liked the name.

[Lancer28]

As far as the calls on the radio, I tend to just use the Whiskey-Quebec-Zulu 9917.. I don't like using hte boat's name as it sometimes gets mixed up like the last post did.

[SailinJay]

The first boat I owned was named "Weezie" which was the name of the wife of the guy who I got it from. It was a "free" boat, a '76 Catalina 22, and I did a lot of work on it. I fooled the name gods (I think) by renaming her "Wheezy" because of her age and condition.

My goal even then was to buy a new boat and I did in 2003, a Catalina 350. Long before I bought the boat I picked the name "Second Wind." Yes, I know that's a pretty common one but I did not realize it at the time. I chose that name because (1) it would be my second boat and (2) it was the boat I intended to use after I retired, in the second half of my life. I retired in 2005.

[Bill Mc]

The coasties ask me what my issue was after I hailed a friends boat. The name of his boat is 10-10.

Ten Ten,Ten Ten, Ten Ten this is Tumbleweed over. I think they thought it was a pan pan due to my accent?? Accent, I don't have an accent... Do I ????

Fair Winds,

Bill

[Raggbagger]

My present boat is named because of her character , she was a total wreck when we got her , Someone had covered her with yellow house paint (grotty yellow ta boot)and after lots of TLC , elbow grease , itchy fiberglass episodes and offerings to West Marine she has emerged to become a sweet little daysailor , we are no longer embarassed to pull behind our van and blaze her across Lake Champlain. She has become the silk purse made from a sows ear hence her name "The Silk Pig " ahhh we love her .

[emjaybee]

Can you name a boat "MAYDAY"?

[Freesail99]

Originally Posted by emjaybee

Can you name a boat "MAYDAY"?

Why would you want to ? Your playing with your life, if you need to make the call....

[badsneakers]

I understand that there's a proper christening ceremony for naming a boat. My question is: Is there a "de-naming" ceremony that must take place when re-naming a boat?