Boat Names

[Allergy]

Once saw a racing yacht that had an original name amendment.
From 'Liz' to 'ThatbitchLiz'
In the days before the word gay was adopted by the 'alternative lifestyle' community.
A girlfriends father had named his catamaran 'Gay Fandango'.
He got more than a few funny looks & comments

 

[Amulet]

This theme comes up every year or so. Best laughs for

Mirror dinghy "Maid Freya Kitt".
Gin palace "Arm and a leg" ... as in "Thames Coastguard this is arm and a legover".

Apologies to whoever it was that posted these last time.

Practical...

"AMULET" has a great name because it's pretty easy to pronounce and is short. However, two other often missed points:

1. It has no repeating letters, so you can buy an A-Z stencil set, stick the name together and use it to label all sorts of things
for ever more.
2. (Only five out of six here) in capitals only one of it's letters has a curve. You can mask it off with straight masking tape to paint it.

So what we want is nice short names with straight lines and no repeating letters.

 

[johnalison]

This theme comes up every year or so. Best laughs for

Mirror dinghy "Maid Freya Kitt".
Gin palace "Arm and a leg" ... as in "Thames Coastguard this is arm and a legover".

Apologies to whoever it was that posted these last time.

Practical...

"AMULET" has a great name because it's pretty easy to pronounce and is short. However, two other often missed points:

1. It has no repeating letters, so you can buy an A-Z stencil set, stick the name together and use it to label all sorts of things
for ever more.
2. (Only five out of six here) in capitals only one of it's letters has a curve. You can mask it off with straight masking tape to paint it.

So what we want is nice short names with straight lines and no repeating letters.

AMULET fails on two points. Although I quite like "Amulet" as a name, the ideal name is reputed to be one with two syllables.

Secondly, a name is more legible with a capital and the rest in lower case, and to my eyes, more pleasing. I have an aversion to the font Mistral though, mainly because of its widespread use on charter boats.