Boat names

[Twister_Ken]

Not a name exactly, but I liked it, except for the spelling mistake.

 

[desertqueen]

 

[Solitaire]

Interesting name - on a boat at Ramsgate:

 

[Master_under_Dog]

There's a boat currently parked at Burnham called "Roger the Cabin Boy II". It would take a brave man to give that out to the coastguard.

One I always liked that I saw down in the Caribbean was "Empty Pockets too".

And then there was a Fireball in Uganda made from packing cases which had, inscribed on its bottom, "Other way up".

(That's enough names, Ed)

 

[Noddy]

A friend of mine has just bought a boat called 'Mr Tinkles.'

I think he plans to change it, but I like it.

Perhaps we should start a petition to keep the name as it is.

What do you think Alan??

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

There's one in Titchmarsh called 'Good Idea Grandad' /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[paulrae]

I like the yacht in Largs - Slipper 1

 

[Flossdog]

In the seventies there was a Fireball dinghy at Stokes Bay SC called, "Orchitis". Look it up!

 

[NealB]

In the early sixties I used to crew in an Enterprise at Hullbridge on the Crouch. She was called "Wylurear", and owned by a local GP (when attending a home- call for a specific ailment, he would invariably be asked all sorts of other questions "while your here").

I liked the rather tired looking little sloop, with peeling paint and brightwork, that I saw some years ago in Falmouth - "Maid of Ply".

 

[ditchcrawler]

There is a yacht in Ipswich called Bonus Ball.I always wonder if he did win the lottery.Saw a boat in Holland called Never Mind.A mayday call would be interesting!

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

There's a steel boat in Belgium called 'Krapulax' /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Daedelus]

I liiked the fireball called "Thud and Blunder".

I felt sorry for the sailboat called "Don't Panic" who had a small fire in the engine compartment and called a mayday to Solent Coastguard. It was just too tempting for them.

 

[Litotes]

Not a yacht, but a coaster.

Used to know a pilot on the Colne/Blackwater (when coasters used to go all the way to Colchester)

Lots had odd names and one was called Kwak. No doubt it means something in a foreign tongue.

The pilots would do anything NOT to be the one to call her up on the radio...... /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

 

[johnalison]

There's a Belgian beer called Kwak which is famously served in a funny glass on a wooden stand.

Thanks to all for names that I certainly won't be calling my next (if ever) boat.

 

[cliff]

I thought Kwak was a Belgian beer /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity.

 

[geoffatstanpit]

For the most cringe-making try a Virgo Voyager called "Virgin on the Ridiculous". For cleverest, a Fireball in a Peyton cartoon called "Tomato Sloop".

 

[StugeronSteve]

Re: Re: Various Positions.

A Leonard Cohen Album IIRC.

I've seen a "Never Again II" somewhere or other.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Re: Re: Various Positions.

Dick Jobbins' old Fireball had a medical name

Slipadichintomy.

The worst name I saw last season 'Oeuf Corse'. Hunter Horizon, I think.

 

[Leighb]

Re: Re: Various Positions.

There used to be a Westerly moored at Pin Mill called "OJONOTAGEN" I have always wondered about the derivation /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[JamesFrance]

Re: Re: Various Positions.

Prince Jeffrey's motoryacht called Tits, with tenders Nipple 1 and Nipple 2.

Long time ago a local boat in Palma called Fu Ku.

Big silver mobo named John Thomas.

French sailboat Big Bottom, registered Ma.