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I have always wondered how people come up with the names of the boats. Some are fairly easy to figure out others not so much. Is there a naming etiquette that should be followed?
If you have a boat how did you come up with her name?
I like the story I read years ago about the Maxi Racer on SF bay named FUJIMO. If I remember correctly . . . probably don't due to the rum again . . . the owners wife was giving him a hard time about the boat so he named it for her. "F you Jane I'm moving out"
I had been struggling to come up with the right name for mine for a few months. Then it happened...I was spending so much time on the boat that my better half began referring to her as the other woman. My '76 Catalina 27 has been formally renamed...complete with ceremonies....she will be forever known as The Other Woman.
Also came with the boat.. As far as we can tell, our boat has always been called "Irene".
When we bought it, both the wife and I had full intentions of changing it ASAP (one suggestion was "Kelpie" - but I'll leave others to speculate why we didn't pick that ), however during a cruise with a bunch of others from the club, we were tied up to a jetty over night in 40-knot winds (being too uncomfortable on board, we were staying in the nearby caravan park at the time) and the tide rose trapping the gunwale under the jetty.
The next morning, one of the other club members noticed when he went out to relive himself and raced around on the jetty to wake everyone else up yelling "Irene's in trouble!!"... no major damage done, but thereafter we decided to keep the name. It just sounds better than say "Sailingdog's in trouble!! - I mean, who cares?".
we got a houseboat on our dock with the same name.
we gotta be careful how we say our name on the VHF, poeple think were making sexual advanced at them so we say Kahmona Wanaleea
My boat came with the name Anne Marie. Now I dated a Anne Marie, great body but what a bi..... Anyway, a girl friend suggested Wind Angel, I didn't like it. Then she came up with Ark Angel, which was ok. I was going to use the name.
I was recently going through some things and I came upon an old book I had. I always liked the book. So the name of my boat is ( and I had the name printed already so I am not changing it ) is Scheherazade.
My wife is from "Wild Rose" WI. She tells this story that since she left, they just call the town "Rose". The boat got the name "Wild" since she didn't want me to call it "Katie". It's a racing boat that gives you a good Wild ride when it pipes up a bit.
The next boat is already named too. Our next boat will be purchased sometime in the next 2 years. It will be something in the 40' range. Our favorite at this time is a Tayana 42. I would like Katie to look at a Valiant 40. She has yet to see one. We will be leaving WI on a LONG cruise in about 2011. Not any real defined plans. We'll go as the wind blows us as long as we are having a good time. To our non sailing friends it is kind of mystical to them why we would do that. We both like Van Morrisons music, of course not many don't. We decided to call the boat "Mystic" When we go below deck we will be going "Into the Mystic".
Any guess to the name of the dinghy?
Katie is of Danish and Hungarian decent. A little gypsie blood in her. The dinghy will be "Gypsy Soul". Of course I will be rocking that often. Her Gypsy soul, not the dinghy.
Several years ago someone gave my wife one of those calendars with a Zen saying for each day of the year. My wife tore them off at the end of the day and gave them to me. I kept several because I like the saying, but one in particular really stuck with me. It went "Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice." It was attributed to some guy named Shunryu Suzuki, whom I had never heard of. I saved that one because I thought to myself, wow, Inner Voice will make a great name for my next boat.
Thus, several years later, my Pearson 33-2 has that name. And only then did I google Suzuki. Quite a guy. Japanese Zen master who started the first zen school in America back in the '60's among other things.
Prior name of the boat was Hot Number. That didn't suit me one bit. Inner Voice fits me and the boat perfectly.
Several years ago someone gave my wife one of those calendars with a Zen saying for each day of the year. My wife tore them off at the end of the day and gave them to me. I kept several because I like the saying, but one in particular really stuck with me. It went "Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice." It was attributed to some guy named Shunryu Suzuki, whom I had never heard of. I saved that one because I thought to myself, wow, Inner Voice will make a great name for my next boat.
Thus, several years later, my Pearson 33-2 has that name. And only then did I google Suzuki. Quite a guy. Japanese Zen master who started the first zen school in America back in the '60's among other things.
Prior name of the boat was Hot Number. That didn't suit me one bit. Inner Voice fits me and the boat perfectly.
I was between girlfriends so I had no one to name the boat after so I called it "Dyevushka" which is Russian for Miss or girlfriend.
I heard a Turkish song Shika Dam which means "I'll make you chic" and named my other boat after that.
We are struggling with the idea of renaming our new (to us) Pearson 36-2. Not only can we not decide on the new name, I am 'a bit superstitious' and want to make sure we do it right when the time (and the name) comes. Any details would be most helpful.
We are struggling with the idea of renaming our new (to us) Pearson 36-2. Not only can we not decide on the new name, I am 'a bit superstitious' and want to make sure we do it right when the time (and the name) comes. Any details would be most helpful.
We are struggling with the idea of renaming our new (to us) Pearson 36-2. Not only can we not decide on the new name, I am 'a bit superstitious' and want to make sure we do it right when the time (and the name) comes. Any details would be most helpful.
Forget all those well-known rituals and ceremonies SD and others will propose - that's all just meaningless smoke and mirrors.
Think of a name you and your first mate truely love (unless it's documented - don't borrow the name from others - it's your friggin boat). Then use Easy-Off oven cleaner to remove the old name - and all evil spirits will be renounced in the caustic soup.
Hemorroid is a cool name....hurts in the back, and you want it gone fast....
I have a friend that named his boat in French...he called CAMARADERIE, which means, roughly..."I don't have any friends, and these hemorroids are killing me"....more or less
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