Boat names: TOO much?

tony_lavelle

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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?

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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.
 

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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.

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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'...:)
 

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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!
 

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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 ;)
 
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