Any one seen any funny boat names recently. A freind of mine called his boat Hardy one as he thought Slipper one would cause too much merryment over the radio!!!
'PENNYS' Except that every time he left his boat he would find that someone had put masking tape over the 'Y' with the letter 'I' on it. Bit like the sign in London which says "Golders Green 3½ miles" No matter how many times the council paint it out some one always writes "to you 2½"
Used to have a swinging mooring in Chichester Harbour (when I was a sticks and string man) and nearby was a cruiser called the 'Vicar of Bray' with a tender called 'Choirboy'
Well my boats named after a small town in the middle of Northern Australia with no water for thousands of miles!!
But I've also seen.
"In The Red"
And
4 Skin!!
I have just been reminded of a time when I was in Hawai in 1971. In the magnificent marina, crowded with many huge, immaculate, white motor cruisers, there was one which was somewhat noticeable from the others. It was totally black; everything was black - the windows, warps, fenders, even the stainless had been blackened. Only the name was white - "I'z yo new nebbor".
The name Play d'eau came from wanting to keep the french word 'eau' in the name. My previous boat was a Cougar Predator 35 - 35' x 8' beam, all muscle, long and sleek - which I had called L'eau Profile.
When changing to the V39, the children said that since it was Daddy's toy, it should be called Play d'eau - after their plasticine toy....
Just come back from this Ionanian sailing, whwere every0ne is nattering on the vhf having just had a sodding vhf course. So every sentence starts with calling the boat name three times, even if it's Spirit of Madagascar. Therefore, am consider buying a boat on their part ownership scheme on condition that the boat is called either
Chase a Bug around the Bay
or
Woody Woody Woody (or suchlike)
or
Hidden Mystical Spirit of the Ghostly Virgin Madonna of Llanfairetc etc.
or
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry.
Sepretly, is "Corporate Raider" still in Port Solent anyone? Worth a snigger as its a 27foot sunseeker, praps acquired following a surprise dawn buying frenzy on the the paper shop where several copies of the morning paper were purchsed without warning, and then then mezzanine finance from Natwest.