Amusing Boat Names

[BlueSkyNick]

Remember Ronnie Barker's 'Porridge'... ? Norman Stanley Fletcher you will go to prison...
In a local marina there used to be a Fletcher speedboat with the name
'Norman Stanley' painted on the transom..

There still is - I know the owner quite well!

 

[Lakesailor]

Saw a very nice 70' narrowboat a couple of years back called "Kids Inheritance"

One of our own forumites has just transported his similarly-named boat from Windermere to the Med.

 

[mcframe]

I always liked this one for the name of my band. As it also has a nautical feel maybe it would suit somebody here who has a yearning for the distant waterways of Europe: Far Canal.

For anyone who has studied tax law and made their money doing internet stuff (I've done both, but not /quite/ successfully enough†...), I offer "Net Benefit".

† Had a company motorbike once, but not a company yacht, back when the tax treatment of "travel to client site" was a bit more favourable than it is now.

 

[Ludd]

In Largs a few years ago--

 

[Monique]

Seen on a sailing dinghy in Germany... This Side Up^.

 

[rr_123]

There are some fun ones on the Thames - I always like "Cirrhosis of the river" (I believe there is also a "Sir Osis"), and for some reason "Not now Kato" always makes me smile

R

 

[Tomahawk]

We heard a "Wibbly Wobbly One" ask for a radio check...
Thames Coast Guard was almost cracking up as they called out their name with the full phonetic alphabet..

 

[Wunja]

There is a boat called WTF! on the other side of the pontoon.

 

[snowleopard]

I once rescued a boat called 'Hell's Bells'. It was quite fun talking to him and the CG. My all time favourite is this one, I love to imagine what sort of person would do this...

 

[lefkasman]

yacht names...

There is a yacht named "Thanks Dad" that ties up on Vliho quay during the season, often wonder what the story behind that is.

 

[ianat182]

I've seen one in the Solent called 'Split Heirs' ; also 'Mary's Legacy'perhaps the first was a hairdresser!

ianat182

 

[sailor211]

I once saw "South Coast Area Office" on a boom cover . Could I get away with that

 

[lotusman]

Tempted to reply to a hail from "Sirius" in McEnroe like voice with 'You cannot be Sirius'.

Old favourites include a mirror dinghy "Maid of Pligh" and a ferro vessel "Maid of Portland"

 

[Liz_I]

We almost bought a boat owned by an accountant and named 'Addendum'.

 

[KellysEye]

Imagine a call to Falmouth Coastguard from a Swedish yacht valled 'Night' and a UK yacht called 'Exocet Attack'. A UK bloke in Venzuela bought a Venezulan boat with a Spanish name and renamed it 'Security' We talked him into changing it.

 

[Victoria Sponge]

There's a boat moored at Ipswich called DAD WON!

 

[prv]

a ferro vessel "Maid of Portland"

I like that

Pete

 

[Colt]

In Largs a few years ago--

It was still there last season.

 

[jonnybuoy]

"Pier Pressure" and "Eric the Boat" have both made me smile

 

[Colt]

I owned a boat that the previous owner had renamed Feed The Goat. He said it was a reference to a Manchester City football chant. Unfortunately it also has another more adult meaning, or so people kept telling me. You'll have to Google it, as I did, or you may already know.