How did you name you boat ?

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Some of the names seen on boats conjure up variations of smiles, ridicule, sheer amazement, dis-belief etc.

So how did your boat get its name ??

My boats :

First boat - Alacrity 19 ... amalgam of my name and wifes : NIgel + JOYce ... = NIJOY
Next was Snapdragon 23 where I named her after the location of the club ... HAVEN LADY

Present boat SUPERANNE ........ cones from previous owner getting Superannuation payment .... (still don't like the name !!)

So yours ??? If it was not you who named it - do you know the story behind the name ............ ?? /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 
Had an Evolution 25 called Chou-Fleur III. Caulifower the Third?!!??. That means the original owner had had 2 previous ones! I used to be ribbed a lot over that one.

Our Jouet 680 was called Blue Fin II, but we renamed it to Second Chance, as Lynn and I had just rekindled our childhood partnership after 28 years apart.

The Sun Odyssey 35 is called Full Circle, as that is what we have done. We are in love like teenagers all over again. The logo graphic on the transom is a compass rose being the Wings album (Red Rose Speedway) that I bought Lynn for her 15th Birthday, over a Compass Rose, and a Circle background. Easy & Cheesy.
 
There as no indication of my little boat ever having been named and because of the stae she was in when bought was generally referred to as 'Scruffy'. It seems to have stuck. Whilst it is accurate it is also meant very affectionately.
 
1930\'s ladies\' nylons

Our boat's first owner was the Sales Director of Aristoc. (He named his next boat Corista - Aristoc backwards). He named her after a trade name that Aristoc had reserved, but not used, back in 1937. We think it suits her.

His last boat was called Tallulah because he once dated the late Miss Bankhead

The 16ft launch is called PIGLET because our elder son was reading Winnie the Pooh at the time

The Firefly is called Skyfly because that's what the RAF YC called her back in 1962

and the 9ft Nutshell tender is called MINN after the Goon Show and cos all the letters are straight and easy to carve.
 
Our K30 will be renamed Wakulla, after the gorgeous Wakulla Springs in Florida where we had our first wedding anniversary. It's one of the world's largest and deepest fresh water springs (where they filmed 'Creature from the Black Lagoon' - how cool?!) and the name means, in the native tongue, something like 'Secrets of mysterious water', which we thought both fitting and rather bootiful.
 
1st was Kingfisher cause thats what I wanted to do and be
2nd was Foriegn Exchange from previous owner and my partner and i were happy enough not to want to rename.
3rd was Ronhilda in memory of parents whose money enabled me to buy her. 1st Owner called her after his daughters so i did not really want to keep that name.

Brian
 
I didn't, she was called that when she was launched in 1963. I think a lot of Elizabethans' names began with "e". It cost too much to think of changing when I bought her, but after a few months I got to like the name as you don't see many about and it suits her. And it is amusing to hear some of the pronunciations, especially in French marinas.
Evadne, far from being a dodgy cross-dressing piano player from an eighties comedy show, was a water sprite in the Greek pantheon.
 
Couldn't come up with something appropriate so the SWMBO at the time said I should close my eyes while I flick through a dictionary. When someone said stop, whatever word I stopped on would be the name of my boat. It took about a case of beer to pluck up the courage to agree too that.

Stingo: n old English for strong or well fermented Yorkshire ale or barley wine.
 
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(He named his next boat Corista - Aristoc backwards)

[/ QUOTE ]He was dislexic?

I've mentioned it before, but I called our little tub Substitute as it replaced a car I'd spent a year rebuilding, but couldn't use as we moved area and occupation. (it's a long story)
 
SWMBO named the boat. It must be the part we spent most time over. I am rubbish at it. I think she recognised that it reflected what I had been doing for the last 8 years, since we sold our bought when new, GRP Enterprise "Plastic MacK" - which I thought was a great name.
 
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Any man who asked Tallulah Bankhead for a date, and was accepted, has earned my respect!

He edited the first edition of the "RCC Atlantic Crossing Guide", having crossed said pond under sail in his own boat 27 times.

But I suspect that dating Tallulah Bankhead was more difficult!
 
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first a Mirror called Peanut (small wooden shell with two nuts in it)

A Miracle called Second Thoughts (2nd boat, and had second thoughts soon after buying it)

After a lull, another Mirror, Titmouse (Our Swallows and Amazons period)

Achilles 24, called Blue, by a previous owner, cos it is..

Have always wanted to call a boat Absolute Elsewhere, a line from a Lennon song.
 
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Our two previous boats were both called Out To Play, it said everything about our reasons for being on the water.

I would like to own a Feeling, not cos I like them but just to call it 'Funny' (hope I dont have to explain that one)
 
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I saw a Feeling recently called "Feeling Groovy" (Simon & Garfunkel?). Nice boat.

Our boat was owned by a rather devout, church-going couple who named it "Carillon" (The bells in a belfry). Because of the religious overtones I would have liked to change the name but SWMBO is called Carole.....so the name remains!
 
1st Mr Bojangles, coz I liked the record

2nd. Nowhere Man, coz that's where I used to come in the racing fleet

3rd Rhapsody in Blue, coz she was blue

Current, Indigo coz that's what was painted on the back (also, there's 'Mood Indigo' by Errol Garner (???) so it carries on the name that tune tradition

Madame had a topper called Vol au Vent coz a) she's French, b) the topper looked a bit like one c) is means fly to the wind.
 
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