How did you name you boat ?

[Lakesailor]

Re: Mr Bojangles - the story

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When we did some research, google came up with John Denver as the writer of Mr Bojangles, currious.

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It is as Jerry Walker wrote it in 1966

 

[beancounter]

Re: Mr Bojangles - STOP!

...I'm feeling this urge to rush to the darker corners of my wardrobe to see if my old flares & tie-dye T shirt are still around.

Ahhh, me lost youth....

 

[Cutter]

Ayesha cos its only six letters so cheap to redo the signage. Also easy to spell phoenetically and two or three syllabels depending which estate you come from. Also cos of Ryder Haggards SWMBO. So lots of reasons. And we didnt like Escapade.
ok?

 

[Deleted member 478]

In Zulu, when you burn your finger, stand on a thorn or do something stupid that inflicts pain, the expression that slips from your mouth is "ayesha". It is a bit like when we go to the chandlery and they say "That will be £129.99" and the expression that slips from ours mouths is "ouch".

 

[jhr]

Blimey; David Bromberg

Many years ago, I brought a copy of David Bromberg's "Midnight on the Water", entirely on the basis of an ecstatic review in NME. It was completely unlike the kind of music that I normally brought in those days (which tended to emanate from Canterbury, Wimborne Minster or Charterhouse, and to go tinkle plink thump) but it is still a treasured possession that I occasionally get out for a spin on my gramophone apparatus. What a guitarist.

To get back on topic, I once saw Marti Caine (the impressionist - since deceased) singing "Mr Bojangles" on TV, which was as bizarre in reality as it sounds in the abstract. No mention of John Denver, thank God.............

 

[Sans Bateau]

Re: Mr Bojangles - the story

I will sack my researcher soon as I get home!

Still a great tune.

 

[bobgosling]

Sea Vespa - name came with the boat ( isn't it unlucky to rename it - even after offering libations to Poseidon & Aeolus ? )

Would like to know WHY it was thus named ! Getting fed up with the numerous suggestions that I should fit a load of rear-view mirrors to the pulpit....

 

[Chris_Rayner]

Our Hunter 490 never really had a name, although I toyed with Quetzalcoatl, for no very good reason.

Our Hunter Sonata, owned from new. was named Sea Symphony, 'cos it's a Sonata innit.

Latest boat is a Hunter Pilot 27 (could there be a theme here emergent?). She was named "PoP-i" when we bought her. I just couldn't live with it, I'm a tolerant and understanding man, but there are limits to what even I am willing to say on the VHF. After much agonising, propitiation of sea gods, etc. etc. she is now called Picaro. The prototype of the picaresque anti-hero, vagabond scallywag who survives his several adventures and itinerant life using a mixture of luck, wits, and low cunning. An early form of Spanish narrative.

I was very flattered when we cruised in company with a Mexican/Spanish couple and he volunteered his opinion that it is a very good name for a boat.

 

[Forbsie]

My river cruiser is called 'Just The Job' because the 2 owners were both unemployed when it was being renovated and my newly renovated 1936 Sharpie was christened 'Constance' on Tuesday after the builder's late wife.