yachtorion
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How do you choose a good boat name?
Boat Names
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Quandary
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Sensibly, you call it after your current wife or partner, as long as you are confident you will not be keeping her (no, the boat) too long but if it is a X yacht you call it 'BalliX'
Dave100456
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Can I suggest you do the Mayday test and think what your boat name would sound like in an actual Mayday message.
Three weeks ago, I was the first on scene to a Mayday on a foreign 40ft mobo that was sinking in the Gulf of Patras. Their vhf calls were panicked and English was not there first language but the situation was not helped by the vessel being call "Two hundred years too late".
You can imagine how incomprehensible the radio procedure was when their response to requests for information on their current situation was prefixed with "we're 200 years too late"!!!!...
Me responding ... "I am getting to you as fast as I can.... but what's the vessel called?" "Its 200 years too late" came the response!! And so on.
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Three weeks ago, I was the first on scene to a Mayday on a foreign 40ft mobo that was sinking in the Gulf of Patras. Their vhf calls were panicked and English was not there first language but the situation was not helped by the vessel being call "Two hundred years too late".
You can imagine how incomprehensible the radio procedure was when their response to requests for information on their current situation was prefixed with "we're 200 years too late"!!!!...
Me responding ... "I am getting to you as fast as I can.... but what's the vessel called?" "Its 200 years too late" came the response!! And so on.
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rogerthebodger
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FWB
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There's a boat down here called "Allo Allo".
Crowblack
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There used to be a boat in Ramsgate called "Oh No" and years ago one in Titchmarsh called (imagine John Wayne) "The Hell I Will"
Humblebee
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We recently renamed ours "Fraoch", Gaelic for Heather, my wife's name.
Best name I've seen for a while is "Never Again 2".
A rather cynical fisherman I spoke to recently reckoned every yacht over 40 feet should be called "Pretentious Bastard".
Best name I've seen for a while is "Never Again 2".
A rather cynical fisherman I spoke to recently reckoned every yacht over 40 feet should be called "Pretentious Bastard".
Quandary
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There is a boat regularly cruising around Mull called 'How Much?' another one passed here last week called 'Shy Talk'.
An old friend years ago raced Lasers, the first one was called 'Lazy' the second one 'Two Lazy' and the third one 'Lazy Turd'.
An old friend years ago raced Lasers, the first one was called 'Lazy' the second one 'Two Lazy' and the third one 'Lazy Turd'.
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LittleSister
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Some names seem to me to be tempting fate. I was thinking this as I passed one today called Rockhopper, but Storm, Roaring Wave etc. likewise.
I think AWBs are great, and I'd be very pleased if Santa brought me one, but I don't think they bear names like Rebel, Individualist, etc,. too well.
And you don't want one that requires the name spelt every time you call on the radio. If only the previous owners of two of my boats had thought of that.
I think AWBs are great, and I'd be very pleased if Santa brought me one, but I don't think they bear names like Rebel, Individualist, etc,. too well.
And you don't want one that requires the name spelt every time you call on the radio. If only the previous owners of two of my boats had thought of that.
chrishelen
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Where my boat us located you have to lock out to go to sea. Funny and clever names soon wear off.
Steve Grubb
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We had a bit of a challenge naming our new boat, I wrote up our reasoning on my blog http://viking295.blogspot.co.uk/p/whats-in-name.html
LittleSister
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I think BoatyMcBoatface is still available!
Seajet
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There used to be a Feeling ( make ) yacht in Chichester Harbour called ' That Sinking Feeling ', which must have been very popular on the VHF with Coastguards.
Also remember a racing yacht called ' Red Alert ' which must have had a few people come upright in their chairs...
A chum and I once shared an old International 14 racing dinghy which proved a lot less rapid than we'd hoped; as this was in the 1980's we painted it yellow and called it ' Coward's Way '.
Also remember a racing yacht called ' Red Alert ' which must have had a few people come upright in their chairs...
A chum and I once shared an old International 14 racing dinghy which proved a lot less rapid than we'd hoped; as this was in the 1980's we painted it yellow and called it ' Coward's Way '.
Dave95979
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Is it bad luck to rename a boat ?
prv
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Yes, unless you invite all your mates for the free piss-up.
Foolish Muse
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If you name it something interesting, then strangers will stop by to chat and ask how it got its name. If the name is memorable, then people will remember it. So you can decide if these are things you want.
PuffTheMagicDragon
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Heard on the VHF last Autumn:
"Valletta Port Control... Valletta Port Control..."
"Station calling Valletta Port Control"
"It's Complicated"
"What is the name of your vessel?"
""It's Complicated"...."
"Valletta Port Control... Valletta Port Control..."
"Station calling Valletta Port Control"
"It's Complicated"
"What is the name of your vessel?"
""It's Complicated"...."
vicmatt
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one of our commodores used to say the best name for a boat is OH SH##. when you have to call the C G in emergency you don't have to think .it just comes out.
Seajet
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PRV is right, a P.U. covers you for renaming the boat; BUT you must pour a little libation for Neptune into the 'oggin at the time.
I once bought an otherwise lovely Scorpion dinghy called ' Wet Welly '; I instantly decided I'd take the risk, no way was that name staying !
