Boat names unsuitable for radio

[lustyd]

Someone mentioned an Io on here recently. Presumably owned by a dwarf

 

[Rivers & creeks]

We had a Macwester called "Monkey"

Me. Dover CG this is monkey
CG. Errr Monkey as in errr..........loooong pause
Me. As in Monkey
CG. Yes that's what I was thinking, as in, Monkey.

Up until then we'd thought it quite normal???

 

[Resolution]

Io

Someone mentioned an Io on here recently. Presumably owned by a dwarf

No, Io was a nymph who was seduced by Zeus according to Greek mythology.
Why do I know this? Because I have just spent two weeks on a chartered yacht in Greece called "Io Dio" (means Io the god, or something like it.)

By the end of the holiday and stacks of VHF traffic the rest of the fleet had re-named us "Idiot Idiot Idiot".

 

[lustyd]

No, Io was a nymph who was seduced by Zeus according to Greek mythology.
Why do I know this? Because I have just spent two weeks on a chartered yacht in Greece called "Io Dio" (means Io the god, or something like it.)

By the end of the holiday and stacks of VHF traffic the rest of the fleet had re-named us "Idiot Idiot Idiot".

It's also a moon. Unfortunately on a radio call:

"This is IO IO IO"
"off to work sir?"

 

[Lakesailor]

 

[Boxalln]

boat name

I used to water ski with boat named Far Canal in Loch Lomond

think about it

Nick

 

[capnsensible]

Leg

 

[Stork_III]

Recently heard in Portsmouth: "poor boy" calling "spanker" ooch!

seen in dartmouth years ago a mobo called "Didyoubringthebeeralong"

Another one I saw in Belgium last year.

 

[grumpy_o_g]

I've sailed on a boat called Trickie but never used the radio.

 

[Grumpybear]

Saw a large AWB in the Yealm a few years ago: "Drop 'em or Swim Back!". Home port Port Solent.

 

[Amulet]

Leg

Think your wit escaped them - forum legend has it that there was an expensive gin palace called "Arm and a Leg"

"Thames Coastguard, this is Arm and a Leg over."

Still a winner for me in this recurrent theme.

 

[Boomshanka]

If your boat was called 'oggy' would everyone reply 'oi, oi, oi'?

 

[Arcady]

Easy Oars

 

[Felixcat]

I remember hearing on the VHF in the Clyde, a gruff Scottish voice saying, "This is Daddie's Girl."

 

[Ru88ell]

Also in a gruff deep male voice, "Hello Vounaki base, this is Angel Eyes, Angel Eyes, "

 

[Juan Twothree]

Heard an MRCC the other week calling an angling boat called Weigh Anchor.

(If you say it quickly...)


There was also a Chinese cargo ship that used to transit the Dover Straits called the Wang King.

 

[Bav32]

Many years ago saw a couple of racing motor boats;
Miss Conception
Miss Manookie

 

[grumpy_o_g]

Heard an MRCC the other week calling an angling boat called Weigh Anchor.

(If you say it quickly...)


There was also a Chinese cargo ship that used to transit the Dover Straits called the Wang King.

I believe there is a VLCC or similar called Titan Uranus...

 

[Rob_Webb]

A RIB around Southampton a few years ago called Canine Gonads. Heard CG ask them to rename.

A boat here in Auckland called:

 

[little_roundtop]

Great thread! It's not at all boaty but some of these potential radio exchanges reminded of the Abbott & Costello routine "Who's On First?"....