Forum name and boat name

[Seastoke]

How did you come up with either.

 

[KevinV]

I didn't, I was given both.
l thought quite seriously about changing Kevin, but Flycatcher is rather good for an AM Catch22, and Curlew suits my wooden 19'er beautifully

 

[Seashoreman]

Boat is Sea Sharp, tender Sea Sharp Minor. I am a piano restorer and tuner.
Previous boat, a Leisure 17 I named Perfect Pitch. Got to have a sense of humour?

 

[snowbird30ds]

You can ask...

 

[Tranona]

Forum name is original boat name. Came with the boat which was built for an Irish doctor. Boat class is Eventide and Tranona is Gaelic loosely translated "evening time". Bought the boat in 1980, sold in 2019, but name has stuck.

 

[Ray Purchase]

Toast.

 

[Seastoke]

You can ask...
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Dry dock / what is it called then.

 

[Irish Rover]

Forum name is original boat name. Came with the boat which was built for an Irish doctor. Boat class is Eventide and Tranona is Gaelic loosely translated "evening time". Bought the boat in 1980, sold in 2019, but name has stuck.

Interesting. Tráthnóna is the Irish word for afternoon or evening. If the original owner told you that was the meaning, then so be it. If not, there may be other possibilities. Trá is the Irish for beach or strand. Nona could be a place name or one of the very many shortened versions of the name Nóirín (Noreen) - Nona Strand.

 

[Mr Googler]

Combination of my wife and daughters name for the boat

Forum name…..good at googling

 

[Tranona]

Interesting. Tráthnóna is the Irish word for afternoon or evening. If the original owner told you that was the meaning, then so be it. If not, there may be other possibilities. Trá is the Irish for beach or strand. Nona could be a place name or one of the very many shortened versions of the name Nóirín (Noreen) - Nona Strand.

He was a consultant psychiatrist in Plymouth name of Bill Fitzgerald and was one of 3 owners that commissioned the first 3 Eventide 26s from Hartwells in 1963. I still have all his accounts of cruises including 2 trips to Ireland from his home mooring at the bottom of his garden on the river above Salcombe. His explanation of the name was in his account of building the boat.

Photos of boat just before I sold it in 2019. Not fully rigged as it had been laid up for 8 years and the new owner wanted to do the last bit of fitting out himself. I miss it still and its big sister which I now have is nowhere near as attractive, but more practical.

 

[markc]

Boat name JINTO is a combination of my late grandparents' names "Jinks" and Toby. Nothing to do with the ubiquitous alcoholic beverage.

 

[The Q]

The motor boats name is that of the Kennel club "Affix " which was added to the name of the dogs we bred on their official registration.
The rowing boat for the motor boat has the name "Puppy of ( the affix)"
The sailing boat is named Blue Moon after one of our dogs..

My forum name is just "The " and my first initial.

 

[Offshore57]

Used to race Offshore as a navigator, and 57 was the number of my grasstrack car when I raced it years ago....and seemed lucky.

Savannah is the name we called our Princess....the name just popped into my head shortly after buying her.....and our rib is called Voodoo, because a powerboat we used to have was already called that and we had jackets with the name on, and still had the jackets when we bought the rib...so it just seemed easier to use the name, plus we like it.

 

[Irish Rover]

I challenge all comers to guess the story behind my forum name

 

[Fire99]

My old chat 'handle' back in the old days of ICQ and Compuserve and a mate always thought I should be a fireman.

 

[Farmer Piles]

Combination of my wife and daughters name for the boat

Forum name…..good at googling

And your boat Name?

 

[dunedin]

I challenge all comers to guess the story behind my forum name

Were you a bit Wild ?

 

[Farmer Piles]

My Aquador came from a fellow forumite and she came with the name, Molly. We liked it so kept it.
My Yamarin 59HT we named, Sula. It is the gannet genus and we love to watch them diving here off Cornwall - and we loved the blue footed boobys we saw aound Baja when we were there a few years back.
My forum handle; I love wordplay and corny jokes and came up with it.

 

[veshengro]

My older sister, now unfortunately in the grip of advanced Dementia and hardly able to speak at all, always called me by my forum name. It's from the family language in which Vesh ( various spellings) means forest or woods. When I started living here, surrounded by woodlands and spending a lot of my time there, she named me Veshengro, man of the woods/forester etc: in the Romany language.
No, I don't.....I'm limited to various words and phrases remembered from childhood before I was captured at 10 years of age and put into a Children's Home..

 

[Irish Rover]

My older sister, now unfortunately in the grip of advanced Dementia and hardly able to speak at all, always called me by my forum name. It's from the family language in which Vesh ( various spellings) means forest or woods. When I started living here, surrounded by woodlands and spending a lot of my time there, she named me Veshengro, man of the woods/forester etc: in the Romany language.
No, I don't.....I'm limited to various words and phrases remembered from childhood before I was captured at 10 years of age and put into a Children's Home..

It sounds like a story which would be well worth hearing.