Choosing a Boat Name

Caliban is the name she came with. It was my intention to change it to Rose Cullender (a 17th century witch) but Caliban seems to be hand written on the bow making removal somewhat problematic without also removing part of the brown stripe that goes around the hull below the deckline.
Long story short, decided to keep Caliban after doing some poking about on the interwebz. He was some sort of sub human slave from Shakespeare' play The Tempest. Also found a (very poor) thrash-metal group of that name, although I doubt they were the seed for the boats name.
 
Our vessel is a wellcraft and so we named here wellcrafty as frequently we get outselfs into positions we rather not be in but craftily we end up getting out of these situations, so we decided wellcrafty (well-crafty) was the best fitting name for here.

But our second option was buoy oh buoy.
 
We deal in antique maps and named the boat Ortelius after the early Dutch cartographer. An existing Atlantic 38 we had seen was already named Mercator and Ortelius was his friend and business partner - seemed appropriate.
 
When we bought our boat it was named 'Lucy locket'! I'm sorry to all Lucy's out there but that had to go! Called it Alchemy after my favourite dire straits album......and I thought it sounded quite cool:cool:!
 
Our boat is called U4.

Our last name begins with a U. My wife and I + our two little boys makes 4.... So U4 it was
 
Dad always asked if I'd name my new boat "Isle of May" after my late Mum. He liked the fact that it could be misheard as "I love May". Sadly he too passed away only a couple of months before we took delivery. But a promise is a promise.
 
Our current boat was called 'Camelot' due to the huge round table in the front cabin, which seats 8 people!

We hated the name, and couldn't bring ourselves to port over the previous boats name 'No Regrets' as it 'belonged' to that boat!

My wife wanted to call it 'Fifty Shades' after the book, as it had a Red bedroom ('Red room of pain' if you get my drift...) so, Fifty Shades it was. The stern has the extra bit, as we're moored up at Bray marina, so 'Fifty Shades of Bray' is wot is says on the back...a bit of a punchline that!!
 
Lisilou. It's what Chris calls me (among other things but they would've been highly innapropriate!). Boring and very simple but it kinda fits so there you have it.
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