Irish Rover
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It sounds like a story which would be well worth hearing
Forum name and boat name
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veshengro
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"It sounds like a story which would be well worth hearing"
To some perhaps, but not for here ..
To some perhaps, but not for here ..
Irish Rover
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My daughter was born in Türkiye and all her education was exclusively in Turkish until she finished high school. My wife and I are both Irish and we speak English at home so our daughter is fluent in both languages. However she regularly came across English words she hadn't heard before and would ask us to explain. She was 14 when we acquired our previous boat and named it Irish Rover. She asked what does Rover mean. I told her it was someone who travels around from place to place and her answer - "why didn't you call it Irish Traveller".
Gurrig
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Forum name from Island at 52' 18'' N 10' 02''W which I have sailed past a number of occasions. Avatar is photo of same.
No boat at present.
No boat at present.
Irish Rover
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An Daingean, a grand spot, or at least it was the last time I saw it which is 30+ years ago.
Gurrig
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Gurrig Island on north side of Dingle Peninsula, one of the Seven Hogs or Maharee islands
Mr Googler
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High Maintenance
Not really….Cazeki
But I’m now defo going to name a future boat high maintenance!
snowbird30ds
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I have a princess 30ds called snowbird so forum name simple, boat came with the name.
Alicatt
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Handle is that I love cats
Boat’s name is Hunter and has been since new, with the stylised archer below the name fits with my long time love of archery, I have been using a bow since I was 8 years old. Still bend a bow every now and then to keep the eye in, but not done anything serious in a few years.
Boat’s name is Hunter and has been since new, with the stylised archer below the name fits with my long time love of archery, I have been using a bow since I was 8 years old. Still bend a bow every now and then to keep the eye in, but not done anything serious in a few years.
JOHNPEET
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My very imaginative forum name was assigned during the forum registration process and at the time couldn’t see a way to change it!
The boat is called “Annie - Mosity” This was my wife’s (called Ann) decision after the boat and it’s shelter had sat in our garden for twelve years whilst I built it!
The boat is called “Annie - Mosity” This was my wife’s (called Ann) decision after the boat and it’s shelter had sat in our garden for twelve years whilst I built it!
Farmer Piles
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I was reading in The Week a month or so back about a 20 year old mother in the USA who wanted to name her baby girl after her grandparents; Harry and Charlotte. You all might be ahead of me here. Imagine the reaction when the girl told her family that she had registered the child's name as Harlot.
jbweston
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My forum name is my name. I never got round to making myself anonymous. I've only once had a malicious forumite (I hear you say 'Can there be such a thing!' ) hunt me down. He phoned me and threatened me with violence because I'd pointed out on here quite truthfully something negative that official public records said about his business history while he was touting for more.
My boat name is Penguin. She's the fifth Penguin I've owned. The first two were trailer-sailers, so ungainly on the land but good in the water like their namesake. Also I used to tell my children penguin stories when they were little so have a soft spot for them - the penguins as well as my children.
The name Penguin also has some features that I think are highly desirable in a boat name:
- it's simple, not like 'Scheherazade of Achiltibuie' or 'Sabiha Gökçen of Yeşilovacık'
- it's a word that's similar in many European languages, so easily understood on the radio even if read back as Pingvin, Pinguino, Pinguin, etc., and easy to spell if necessary.
- it's popular with children and seems to be a happy sort of name, not like 'British Viper' or 'Overdraft Limit'.
- it wouldn't raise a laugh if ever I have to make a Mayday call as might 'Bottoms up' or 'Three Sheets to the Wind'.
My boat name is Penguin. She's the fifth Penguin I've owned. The first two were trailer-sailers, so ungainly on the land but good in the water like their namesake. Also I used to tell my children penguin stories when they were little so have a soft spot for them - the penguins as well as my children.
The name Penguin also has some features that I think are highly desirable in a boat name:
- it's simple, not like 'Scheherazade of Achiltibuie' or 'Sabiha Gökçen of Yeşilovacık'
- it's a word that's similar in many European languages, so easily understood on the radio even if read back as Pingvin, Pinguino, Pinguin, etc., and easy to spell if necessary.
- it's popular with children and seems to be a happy sort of name, not like 'British Viper' or 'Overdraft Limit'.
- it wouldn't raise a laugh if ever I have to make a Mayday call as might 'Bottoms up' or 'Three Sheets to the Wind'.
Farmer Piles
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PS,
My boat is just out of shot in the profile picture. Couldn't get Molly and the combine in the same frame.
My boat is just out of shot in the profile picture. Couldn't get Molly and the combine in the same frame.
Sticky Fingers
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My boat name Is 'Barking Mad', the name was the brainchild of the previous owner's mother, who thought that they were indeed barking mad to buy such a vessel. We had planned to change it, but it seemed popular amongst onlookers and family so we kept it. Also very unusual, not seen another one.
I have previously used a forum name that was the name of the boat we owned at the time. My current forum name was a childhood nickname given to me by my father, reflecting my then uncanny knack of successfully holding onto things that perhaps weren't legally mine. After we'd sold the previous boat, I wanted to change my forum name and at the time I had intended to build a cedar strip-plank dayboat in West Epoxy, which would obviously have resulted in getting very sticky fingers. So the combination of that intention (not entirely abandoned) and my childhood nickname seemed very appropriate.
I have previously used a forum name that was the name of the boat we owned at the time. My current forum name was a childhood nickname given to me by my father, reflecting my then uncanny knack of successfully holding onto things that perhaps weren't legally mine. After we'd sold the previous boat, I wanted to change my forum name and at the time I had intended to build a cedar strip-plank dayboat in West Epoxy, which would obviously have resulted in getting very sticky fingers. So the combination of that intention (not entirely abandoned) and my childhood nickname seemed very appropriate.
Irish Rover
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I'm very impressed with your Turkish spelling.
Seastoke
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Down Rover.I challenge all comers to guess the story behind my forum name
inventive
Seastoke
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Did he do fake teak
Shifty
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Our Boat name is Dutch Courage, so named as she’s Dutch built, and we purchased her from the Netherlands during lockdown.
Took an awful lot courage to send a large bank transfer to purchase something we’d never physically seen!
Shifty is a nickname that’s stuck for more than 30 years after an incident involving condoms tied to a friend’s VHF Ariel during the night.
Drink had been taken!
Took an awful lot courage to send a large bank transfer to purchase something we’d never physically seen!
Shifty is a nickname that’s stuck for more than 30 years after an incident involving condoms tied to a friend’s VHF Ariel during the night.
Drink had been taken!
jbweston
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It was a while back, but as far as I recall he rebuilt engines or claimed to, but his previous business doing that had closed down in one place and he'd started up elsewhere.
But on the phone he sounded like the kind of guy that might do fake anything at all.
jbweston
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Imagine trying to spell that with the NATO alphabet over the radio to someone in Poland or Brazil.
"That's Gökçen. Golf, oscar with two dots, that's delta oscar tango sierra, then kilo charlie with a squiggle - that's sierra quebec . . . "
I remember listening to a British yacht trying to get permission to enter harbour from Ventspils Port Control. The yacht had one of those long Tolkienesque names. The problem was compounded by the guy on the yacht using his own version of the phonetic alphabet which was mainly English-language animal names. The Ventspils guy was remarkably patient - and now well equipped to understand David Attenborough wildlife documentaries without the need for subtitles.
