Boat Names

[William_H]

Yes you want a name that is different and easy to say.
One dinghy at our club is called Megasaurarse. Another one was called Blueover. We have a little town here in West Oz that often gets a mention in weather reports. I presume an aboriginbal name "Bidyadanga" might work for a boat name.
I like a name given after a Bay or ship's captain. I did name a boat (in Papua New Guinea) Captain Fremantle after the captain of one of the first settlement ships of my home town. Found out later he was actually a real bounder. Sent to the colonies to avert a scandle. good luck olewill

 

[bumblefish]

My daughter came up with a name for a Ty Beanie that we bought as a 'gift' for her mother, bumblefish, I liked it, unusual, unique and something personal to my family. I even registered the domain name. When I checked the ITU database recently I found another bumblefish! Have I had my identity stolen????

 

[CAPTAIN FANTASTIC]

I made the mistake to ask my children when they were young to name our boats; they came up with ridiculous and funny names which we had to use.

 

[Daydream believer]

When I give the name of my boat over the VHF to harbour masters it is amazing how many actually try to sing it but cannot remember the words to the song so they just sing the name

 

[Rivers & creeks]

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.

True that, many a pleasant conversation about the ridiculous name we chose.

 

[[70521]]

How do you choose a good boat name?

I've never had the opportunity as I always buy second hand, or pre loved as they say these days, and never change the boat's name.

 

[Tam Lin]

I have never felt the need to change my boat's name until my present one which was called "Tinkerbelle." One that amuses me is "Thanks Mum!"

 

[Robert Wilson]

Friends in St.Mawes had their dinghy BASIC named by their grandfather (Mathews). Their names were Brian, Annie, Simon, Ian, Colin.
He also named the doctor's dinghy HUMOYRUS: Hugh, Moyra and "us" for the two daughters.

When I get my next boat, after winning the Lottery Jackpot, I shall call it North Star, for that is the star I look for whenever and wherever I might be in the N. Hemisphere.
I actually navigated a 32tonne fully laden articulated wagon through the back roads and housing estates of East London one night - by following the North Star. I reached the North Circular without having had to look for a signpost!

There is a lovely boat in these parts called Lass of Ballochmyle. Now that is a phonetic nightmare in an emergency!!

A name to avoid: Glug. Imagine This is yacht Glug, Glug, Glug,

 

[rogerthebodger]

A guy in out marina named his boat @Office, so he can always say when asked where are you "I'm at the office"
I say a boat named "The other woman"
and there as a boat next to us one tine called " 42 the meaning of live the universe and everything else"

 

[reginaldon]

My wee boat is called Little Madam - what my mother-in-law called my late wife when she was sussed out by her daughter! They were both great ladies!

 

[macd]

another one passed here last week called 'Shy Talk'.

Many years ago there was a racehorse of that name, which slipped past the usually eagle-eyed Jockey Club. Peter O'Sullivan pronounced it with rare care in the saddling enclosure, no doubt with fingers crossed that it wouldn't be in the running in the final furlong. It was...

 

[Porthandbuoy]

Avoid sibilants. Naming your boat something like Fractious Spouse guarantees the Coastguard will ask for the name phonetically.

 

[Kelpie]

Our boat was called 'Secret' when we bought her... didn't fancy a conversation along the lines of:
"Station calling Stornoway Coastguard, can you repeat the name of your vessel?"
"it's secret!"

Having renamed her Kelpie, she promptly grew two feet of weed on her underside as if to prove me right...

 

[Serin]

Years ago, when Colchester still operated as a commercial port, a coaster that regularly came up the Colne was called "Kwak"

A friend who was a Blackwater and Colne pilot told us the pilots would resort to any kind of low trick in order to be the one not to all that vessel on the radio.

 

[LittleSister]

As luck would have it this afternoon I came across the following when clearing out some old papers: part of a record of a somewhat sloshed game of suggesting names suitable for different classes/makes of boat.

Victoria - Sponge
Vertue - Spell Checker or Patience
Pandora - Can o' Worms
Huzar - Tommy Cooper
Westerly - Backing
Southerly - Veering
North Sea 127 - Southend Arterial
Leisure - Repentance
Island Packet - Costa
Vindo - Vindaloo
Etap - Dlab
Mirror - Cracked

 

[Porthandbuoy]

As luck would have it this afternoon I came across the following when clearing out some old papers: part of a record of a somewhat sloshed game of suggesting names suitable for different classes/makes of boat.

Victoria - Sponge
Vertue - Spell Checker or Patience
Pandora - Can o' Worms
Huzar - Tommy Cooper
Westerly - Backing
Southerly - Veering
North Sea 127 - Southend Arterial
Leisure - Repentance
Island Packet - Costa
Vindo - Vindaloo
Etap - Dlab
Mirror - Cracked

Nicholson - Jack

 

[Kelpie]

Nicholson - Jack

Vega- Suzanne

 

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

As luck would have it this afternoon I came across the following ...

Victoria - Sponge

There used to be a forumite in the lounge who was "Victoria Sponge".

 

[LittleSister]

There used to be a forumite in the lounge who was "Victoria Sponge".

So there was. What happened to her?

 

[Seajet]

She went to a better place - in the nicest sense !

Like me she may still keep an eye here for a laugh...