Crap boat names

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seen a few years ago on a lovely old boat with clinker tender

on boat the name was Storm

in the tender

Drizzle t/t Storm

Ioata

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seen a few years ago on a lovely old boat with clinker tender

on boat the name was Storm

in the tender

Drizzle t/t Storm

Ioata

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As much as it pains me to says this, having a long history of disagreeing with you just for fun, on this occasion I have to agree.

Equally as naff is house nomenclature created from combining names.

my boat was called Teen Teen Teen in the early seventies, I wont explain, but I'm glad it was changed as it sounds a bit like a website I'd not admit to having visited...

<hr width=100% size=1>I didn't knacker TCM's copper it was Trazie
 
that is quite awful, i must say.

Planty's boat is called "Damn the Expense!" and whilst he is a vair nice chap, i just can't help feeling that he will have some highish bills. Also, shouting over to the boat is a bit difficult as i found out at mercury...

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There is a Hunter 707 in Hamble called "Dads Pants"

...would love to know how they came up with that name



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Heard recently of a huge gin palace called Tits, with two tenders called Nipple 1 & Nipple 2.

Something tells me Daddy's got far too much money... He should give me some so I can have a good boat with a naff name instead of a naff boat with a good(ish) name

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Was told years ago about a heavily patched and somewhat under inflated tender proudly bearing the name, 'FLOPALONG PLACIDLY' which quite tickled me. Mike.

<hr width=100% size=1>My Mum say's I'm not a fat b@st@rd, just heavy boned.
 
I have always been a strong believer in the maxim that it was unlucky to change a boat's name. However, when I bought my boat, she was called "Cum Again" (spelled thus). This would have been bad enough, but the guy who owned her had also added, in smaller letters across the transom, "In the words of the Virgin Mary....". Sacrilege and bad taste in one fell swoop.

After some research, I decided that it would be safe to change the name if we walked around the boat, explaining to it what we were doing and telling it the new name. You may think that I felt a bit of a tit doing this, but actually SWMBO and my daughter were so taken by the idea that they did it for me, and I sat in the cockpit pretending not to know them. I then had a large drink to seal the deal.

No bad luck yet (after 12 months), though I nearly made a b*ll*cks of anchoring in Newtown Creek yesterday.


<hr width=100% size=1>Je suis Marxiste - tendance Groucho
 
Agreed, it was a naff name for a lovely yacht, 50+ metre Feadship, however it did raise the odd smile down here, seeing the female crew working around with the name of the yacht emblazoned across their tops!

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Not just yachts

A couple of weeks ago, every tanker broker in London was chortling over the decision, by Singapore-based Titan Tankers, to continue their policy of naming their fleet of VLCCs after planets, workingh outwards from Mercury. The ship before last was TITAN NEPTUNE...

<hr width=100% size=1>Que scais-je?
 
Apposite Names?

Others are:

"Office Business" (He's out on...)

"Mum's Mink"

"Toy for the Boys" - v large powerboat

"The Graduate" - owned by a Mrs Robinson.

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Seen on a small day sailor here on lake Geneva the name "Pog ma Hone" which is Irish for "Kiss my arse" - and sailed by a Swiss lady - nearly rammed her stern with shock - me being a paddy!!

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Pogue Mahone was the original name of mad, drunken (esp. Shane Macgowan, their "singer") Irish yiddly-tiddly merchants the Pogues. When they shortened their name, there was much debate as to whether they had become the Kisses or the @rses. Does anybody know the answer? It's always bothered me.

<hr width=100% size=1>Je suis Marxiste - tendance Groucho
 
I remember in the '70s somebody had named their laser dinghy 'Paser then Laser'. Took my a long time to work that one out as a naive adolescent.

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I hate my UK boats name !

But SWMBO heard me say one day about bad luck to change name ....... she reckons some sod changed its name before us .... but anyway I wanted to change it a Russian word ..... ummmmm you guessed it ....... she said NIET !!


<hr width=100% size=1>Nigel ... and of course Yahoo groups :
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gps-navigator/
 
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