Boat names

[Judders]

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Has anyone heard that boat names should end in 'A' for good luck. I hadnt heard this (tho my old boat was Ayesha) but a friend who is commissioning a H-R 40 swears this is true.
What does the team think?

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Interesting theory. All the boats that were important in my early civi sailing started with M or L, Mistress, Lilly Love, Matrix, Lutine, Lutine Belle and Merit, so I was keen to have my boat name start with one or other but then when it came to it, I love the name Feeling Rough so I stuck with it.

 

[bendyone]

Mine is called Suzannah and is referred to as my French mistress /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[vyv_cox]

I hadn't heard about it being anything to do with 'good luck', but I have heard that boat names should preferably be of three syllables and end in the sound 'A' for clarity on VHF. No idea whether this is true or not, but there are certainly many names that are of this form.

 

[Aardee]

I have a personal dislike for the Mobo in Port Solent called "Boozin' & Cruizin'".

 

[Judders]

That reminds me. I saw a Princess 450 in Haslar once called 9/11 Virgin.

 

[jhr]

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9/11 Virgin

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[Judders]

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9/11 Virgin

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Sadly the humour in that name went right over my head. Still does in fact.

 

[jfm]

It's 911 virgin, not 9/11. Princess 42. Belongs to a Porsche dealer who has traded (very nicely - friends have bought/sold thru him and report he is excellent to do business with) as www.911virgin.com for ages, and is a forumite

 

[Andrew_Fanner]

Boat names ending in "A" or indeed "IA" are femewnine endings on some languages and ofc boates are all ladies I assume.

"Kids R Gone" is one favourite, as is "Their Inheritance"

A boat of mine was "Goondiwindi", I have no idea why!

 

[Judders]

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It's 911 virgin, not 9/11. Princess 42. Belongs to a Porsche dealer who has traded (very nicely - friends have bought/sold thru him and report he is excellent to do business with) as www.911virgin.com for ages, and is a forumite

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That explains that one then!

 

[rwoofer]

Think he goes by the forum name Henryf or something like that.

 

[nathanlee]

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But for nice boats with a great names, it is difficult to beat 'Jolie Brise ', three times winner of the Fastnet Ocean Race, two times overall winner of Tall Ships Races.

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I was rafted up next to her in the lock when I came into St Kat's. Had a good natter with the crew. She's owned by a school apparently, to which I enquired "A sailing school?"

"No, a boarding school"

I decided then and there that I made a huge mistake in attending the school I suffered in my teens..

 

[Twister_Ken]

Owned by Dauntseys School.

 

[Elessar]

On that theory, my boat (on the left) should be a good name. My friends boat is less good.......
It was her name when he bought her and she is being renamed.
I went on his splash trip and refused to go to Gunwhalrf as we would have had to call QHM. If we'd needed the CG I would have swam.
Another grim name is the Sealine on the Thames called "Up Yaws"

 

[Rabbie]

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I have a personal dislike for the Mobo in Port Solent called "Boozin' & Cruizin'".

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I could easily work up a dislike for anyone calling his boat 'CLIT 1' !

 

[Elessar]

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I could easily work up a dislike for anyone calling his boat 'CLIT 1' !

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She was a small boat in a big marina so he could never find her /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

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I have a personal dislike for the Mobo in Port Solent called "Boozin' & Cruizin'".

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I arrived at Gunwharf with this boat by chance one day. The QHM sigh was audible.

 

[mattw]

Spotted in a Solent Marina a few years ago:

"Never Again 2"

I'm waiting for an Elbow fan to christen their boat 'Grounds For Divorce".

 

[Whitelighter]

There used to be a boat on the trots at the start of the Beulie river called Bollocks

He wasnt shy either, the graphics covered 1/3 of the hull down each side.

 

[kengill]

I used to own Gaia of Levington and named her tender Reah.

 

[Vanilla]

Sure he's not muddling boats up with cars? A heck of a lot of car names end with an "A"