Boat names

[powerskipper]

saw her go back in the water the other day.
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here are some of them!!!!!

Boats Have a Life - and a Mind of Their Own, Once Named and Christened


Renaming a Boat


Ask the Boat's Permission, Check the Numbers, Get the Boat Involved, Use Vigor's Denaming Ceremony

I am a strong beleiver that if you look after a boat it will look after you.

<hr width=100% size=1>Julie ,
IMOSHO of course,/forums/images/icons/smile.gif

 

[powerskipper]

>>I am a strong beleiver that if you look after a boat it will look after you<<
Sorry for preaching.
Do you think I am mad as I talk to them to. /forums/images/icons/crazy.gif


<hr width=100% size=1>Julie ,
IMOSHO of course,/forums/images/icons/smile.gif

 

[Mike21]

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[ccscott49]

Not mad, just careful, you never know when they are listening, have to be nice all the time, no "silly bitch" and things like that, she will bite you, when you aren`t looking! But really ony one problem, does she answer you?? mine does, but mind you I`m a loony!!! /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[jhr]

We re-named ours.

I'm not particularly superstitious about changing a boat's name but even if I had been, I'd have had to do something because when I bought her, she was called "Cum Again" (and yes - that is how it was spelled, in garish letters across the transom).

Like lots of people on here, we chose the name of a song (Nick Drake's "Bryter Layter"), having toyed with various others at one time or another - one proposal was "Solid Air", a song by John Martyn, but we decided that would sound too much like "Solitaire" on the VHF, and we wouldn't want that, would we? /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

I like the name because (a) so far as I can tell it is unique (b) it passes the "How does it sound on VHF/hailed from the shore" test and (c) it's a declaration of faith in the British climate: however foul it may be now, it's bound to be brighter later, innit? /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

Having consulted with my old man, an expert on such subjects, SWMBO and the kids walked around the boat, explaining to her why we were going to change the name and what it was going to be in future. No consequent bad luck yet, although when I went down to the yard on Saturday I did forget to take the keys with me. /forums/images/icons/crazy.gif

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[Fingers]

We called our first 'Argo' after the Gullet we spent a couple of weeks on the previous summer. Its short and sweet, and no problems over the VHF. The new boat is called 'Argo '0'' (Nought) naturally.

We are looking for a change in the next year or so, so I think we will have to be a little more creative with the next one, although I did see a huge motor boat in Alcudia last year called 'Timeless'. Might have to plagarise that!

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