Boat names: TOO much?

[tony_lavelle]

Why do so many boat names end in "TOO"? Is it perhaps an unwritten rule or superstition not to have "Two", "2" or "II"? I have wondered about this for years and still don't get it.

Does anyone know the answer?

Tony Lavelle

 

[Penton Hooker]

Perhaps the owners mean 'as well', e.g. Sea Mist Too as opposed to sea Mist as well as all the other Sea Mists.

 

[Poignard]

Can't say I've ever noticed it but Eric & Susan Hiscock's 'Wanderers' were simply numbered: II; III; IV; and V.

I suppose it's simply a means of keeping a name that you like when you buy a new boat.

 

[Nick_Pam]

Why do so many boat names end in "TOO"? Is it perhaps an unwritten rule or superstition not to have "Two", "2" or "II"? I have wondered about this for years and still don't get it.

Does anyone know the answer?

Tony Lavelle

I think there is an issue with Part 1 registered boat at least, in that, in order to call ones boat (eg) Lucinda Two; Lucinda 2 or Lucinda II, one has to have owned the original boat Part 1 registered as Lucinda, whereas "too" does not have the same numerical connotation.

Nick

 

[Seajet]

What gets me is the way catamarans seem to think it mandatory to have some mention of double or two in the name; 'Seaing Double, Double Trouble, just about every b****y time.

The best one I've seen is 'Cooking Fat'...

 

[Zagato]

Mine was also a two "Seeker Two" from a previous owner!

Best one I ever saw was "F**K IT"

 

[jordanbasset]

Best one I saw was "Never again II"

 

[Penton Hooker]

There is a dinghy up on the Broads called 'Norfolk an' Good'. Thought that a trifle vulgar!!! In the same vane a boat down in Essex called King John, ohh, you work it out!

 

[snowleopard]

What gets me is the way catamarans seem to think it mandatory to have some mention of double or two in the name; 'Seaing Double, Double Trouble, just about every b****y time.

Not true. You are allowed to dispense with the '2' as long as you have a feline reference in the name

 

[Seajet]

Yes, I forgot that aspect...

 

[DanTribe]

Not true. You are allowed to dispense with the '2' as long as you have a feline reference in the name

So would "Double Pussy Too" earn extra cred?

 

[Norman_E]

I know a power catamaran called "CATATONIC" Sums it up nicely, I think!

 

[Ex-SolentBoy]

I once saw a Nauticat called "Bad Pussy"!

 

[Monique]

^^^ this is novel

Sailing dinghy in Germany. "this side up" with a big red arrow pointing skywards.

 

[Ianhampshire]

I recall once seeing a boat called "Unsinkable II" which I thought amusing. Of course if it had been called "Unsinkable Too" then the meaning would have been the opposite.

 

[Talbot]

Best one I saw was "Never again II"

I remember a tender named

Paid IV


It came from a large motor boat named

Knot Paid IV


tickled my funny bone

 

[farmerdan79]

I am now thinking of naming the new boat "To Too Two"...

 

[chewi]

I am now thinking of naming the new boat "To Too Two"...

and the tender T/T 2 II 10 ?

 

[jimi]

It just would be wrong to name a boat Timbuc

 

[Moodyjim]

A bit like "True Commitment 2" in Corfu.