Boat names unsuitable for radio

[Thistle]

R Slater was, knowing the parents, probably unintentional.

 

[Stemar]

Better that than R Slicker

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Or Les Bien Temps.

 

[Dellquay13]

My first boat, a Dory which I kept in Greece for 10 years was ‘The Good Ship Venus’
My next boat of note was a Shetland Family Four that forever wanted to head westward over the horizon called ‘The Pequod’
My current boat is a Copland Foxhound, it’s name is ‘F’ in the phonetic alphabet, pronounced in English as Foxtrot. “This is yacht Foxtrot, I spell Foxtrot…”

 

[tico]

Ah, I had wondered about that?

 

[newtothis]

There was a Mr & Mrs Carte in Leeds who christened their son Orson.

A friend of mine whose surname is Canal always threatened to call his first son Farr.

 

[Biggles Wader]

Sister knew a girl at school called Cherry Orchard and I knew a Crispin Dry.

 

[Clancy Moped]

Sister knew a girl at school called Cherry Orchard and I knew a Crispin Dry.

A kid a year above me at school was Dwayne Pipe.

 

[Hacker]

Couple at our NCT class (many decades ago) called Mr &Mrs Fogg called their first daughter Opium.

 

[Leighb]

I knew a couple many years ago called Rouse who called their daughter Charlotte, they couldn’t understand why their friends were amused.

 

[Skysail]

I knew a couple many years ago called Rouse who called their daughter Charlotte, they couldn’t understand why their friends were amused.

I knew a couple named Hough who very nearly called their son Justin.

 

[Frogmogman]

I once met a guy called Roland Butter, and my wife used to fly with a Captain called Richard Head.

 

[Leighb]

Not quite in the same vein, but one of our receptionists had four sons. Her husband was called Jeremy and they gave all the bo yes names beginning with J! She didn’t seem to envisage the problem at some future date when letters would arrive addressed to J. Xxx. I was well aware as there were 3 J’s in our family and it did cause some friction. One particular occasion was when my stepbrother opened a letter addressed to my sister from her boyfriend!! The row went on for days.

 

[cpedw]

Very many years ago, I knew a guy whose surname is Nurse. He got a Ph D so he became Doctor Nurse. He married a nurse so she became Nurse Nurse. When they had a daughter, they named her Sarah Ruth - S.R.N.
I wonder what Paul is up to these days?