Boat Names
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Koeketiene
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QueenMum
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Just bought another boat - a Contessa from 1979, considering a new name - Queen Mum! Any thoughts or objections?
Ludd
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I bought my boat already named "El Viento"(Spanish for "The Wind") Not being a Spanish speaker, I called a friend who is. I didn't want to be sailing around in a boat named "The Fa rt"! He assured me there was no such problem. When I brought her south, to Iberia, I expected to see others ---- not a one. Nearest was "Alma do Vento" Portuguese "Soul of the Wind" and just last week a Brazilian boat " Vento Macio"( Sweet Wind)
PuffTheMagicDragon
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PGC
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There was an ex-racing machine named Uomie in the seventies at the British Kiel Yacht Club. The story was that it had cost the original owner loads of money.
Surprisingly rare name!
Surprisingly rare name!
KellysEye
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Two I've seen I wouldn't want to call the coastguard with are Exocet Attack and Security. The latter was a boat renamed by Brit in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela we pointed out to him that the name is close to the VHF call Securite, I dont know if he changed it.
homer
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A few that have amused me over the years:-
"Hugh Jarse"
"Fuzzy Duck"
"Business" (As in, "I'm sorry, he's out on business")
"Offski" (Explained by the owners as, "off spending the kids inheritance")
"Little Miss Windy Pops" (on a dinghy so, presumably, no VHF problems)
"Meander" (Me and 'er)
And recently seen on a charter yacht in Majorca, "ASSOL" - appropriate as they anchored on top of us.
Whatever you do, avoid "Carpe Diem" - there are hundreds of them!
"Hugh Jarse"
"Fuzzy Duck"
"Business" (As in, "I'm sorry, he's out on business")
"Offski" (Explained by the owners as, "off spending the kids inheritance")
"Little Miss Windy Pops" (on a dinghy so, presumably, no VHF problems)
"Meander" (Me and 'er)
And recently seen on a charter yacht in Majorca, "ASSOL" - appropriate as they anchored on top of us.
Whatever you do, avoid "Carpe Diem" - there are hundreds of them!
Seajet
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Surely that would better suit a fat arsed early Moody with a huge gin locker and a satcom beamed directly to the bookie's ?!
aslabend
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Boaty mcboatface has been taken - spotted a motorboat in Solent with it (what a wag).
Never call your boat anything with the word "wind" as it sounds like a fart gag. Caveat to that is "break like the wind" as it's a spinal tap album and is meant to be a fart fag.
Never call your boat anything with the word "wind" as it sounds like a fart gag. Caveat to that is "break like the wind" as it's a spinal tap album and is meant to be a fart fag.
johnalison
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The right name will come to you. You can if you wish go for something corny, like Carpe Diem or Wave Dancer, but the best names have some connection with the owner(s). I quite liked "Lazy Jack" which I saw yesterday.
Tammany
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Theres a race type yacht moored close to me that always makes me smile called 'erotic bear' lol
Tammany
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I've kept mine the same as the dodgers & sail cover have the name painted on although I'm dying them soon as their looking a little tired so will see if it still stays.
Billjratt
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Ours is the name of our favourite cala anchorage when we did our Med stuff. While out there we saw "The Dog's Balearics" and back home I couldn't resist taking this pic...
aquaplane
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I quite like my boat name but if it was a jokey one there is always the option of using your actual call sign on the radio, or is that too boring?
2 Charlie, Foxtrot, Charlie, 2, out
2 Charlie, Foxtrot, Charlie, 2, out
SiteSurfer
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There's a boat in our yard called Sea Drive, which I absolutely love given my IT background.
PuffTheMagicDragon
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The first sailing dinghy that I had when in my early teens was called "Ataxia" an appropriate name because when I wanted to go some place the boat went somewhere else. Probably would not be considered quite 'PC' these days.
My present tender is called "Murphy" (as in 'Murphy's Law'), so christened by my daughter having experienced me designing it, building the plug, taking the mould and finishing the moulding of the first hull.
The 'big' boat is called "Follia Pura". That was the original Italian name and which I kept; it means 'Pure Folly'. This, too, is probably appropriate given my age...
My present tender is called "Murphy" (as in 'Murphy's Law'), so christened by my daughter having experienced me designing it, building the plug, taking the mould and finishing the moulding of the first hull.
The 'big' boat is called "Follia Pura". That was the original Italian name and which I kept; it means 'Pure Folly'. This, too, is probably appropriate given my age...
AEMD
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The first boat I owned was called Peppercorn when we first got her. We renamed her Halfar as the place where my Dad first learned to sail. When we sold her, I was just a bit sad when they renamed her Teapot 
PuffTheMagicDragon
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The first boat I owned was called Peppercorn when we first got her. We renamed her Halfar as the place where my Dad first learned to sail. When we sold her, I was just a bit sad when they renamed her Teapot
Correctly written as "Ħal-Far"
That old airfield, if we're talking about the same place in Malta, has been an industrial zone since the Seventies.
The black streak at the top of the picture was one of the runways and is now this:
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Robert Wilson
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Ours is the name of our favourite cala anchorage when we did our Med stuff. While out there we saw "The Dog's Balearics" and back home I couldn't resist taking this pic...
Good grief! Perhaps it should be named "Kitchen Sink". How do they sail with all that lot aboard?
