How did you name you boat ?

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First (!)Boat 40foot of rotten pine,not gonna name it cos its had a couple of owners since and is ,as far as I know,still 40 foot of rotten pine(but very quick ).

Second. ''Marieta '',Corribee junk rig,came with the name ,and so it stayed.

Third.Nameless, I called it ''Marieta II'', USbuilt Pearson 26 that we turned into a stripped out 28', named cos I kept the dinghy and just added'' II '' to the name!
So guess what the next one will be called...
 
My yacht L'isme was named by her previous French owners after a French ladies yacht from late 1800's who sailed round the world and published a book about it. When changing to UK registration she was renamed L'isme of Guernsey to minimise the bad luck associated with renaming..

My parents had a motor boat called Overdraft - about the most apt name I can imagine. They now have a Curlew called Curlew... beautiful modern classic.
 
Ours is Jessie after my mother who loved adventures and views and being by water although rarely had the chance to be on boats.
Unofficially and very cheesy, we call the flubber Bob (tender to Jessie). That was my Dad. He was, mostly.
 
Our Fireball was (is?) called Tacks Evader .... never had a puncture in the trolley tires!
Our ISO we named Stern Words ... the quietest boat we've sailed...

Others were Tiddly & A Kind of Hush, but the ISO is the only one I've named.
 
(swmbo keen gardener. both not hippies of any kind)

Whilst running thru many random attempts with the aid of a bottle of wine, came up with "Flower Power", which seemed to fit & caused a few laughs, without sounding too cr*p over the vhf.

swmbo had originally wanted "Bring a Bottle", which got vetoed.
 
currently 25ft 1963 mobo which was blue when purchased and named 'Blue Mist', but during restoration was changed to white and is now renamed Mayfly. I am fly fisher, and also boat relaunched in May and at the time found a mayfly on board trapped in the curtains and swmbo's middle name is Mae, so no choice really. A bit corny to be sure. Searching for names to rename next boat(poss 45ft sailboat-don't ask, at least not yet) Thinking of 'Bejasus'. Kids being BEn, JAde, SUmmer and Sasha. I think I need some help
...............................NUrse!!
 
Our last two boats have had names that started with K-I-N. The first was KINSAIL (our Irish family name comes from Kinsale, so the change of spelling combined name and lifestyle). Next boat was called Kindred Spirit to carry on the KIN theme.

also means on Friday you can say "s*d the lot of ya, we're going " 'kin sailing"...geddit?

Sue
 
First boat I can remember naming was a Laser I called China Bull after the chairman of a protest committee described my antics on the start line "like a bull in a china shop". Just to remind the others in the fleet. One of the other Laser sailors named his boat "cut me off at the knees and call me Rodney" - Rodney being the name of his closest competitor for the championship. He liked hearing it read out at the prizegiving, etc.

For most of the other boats I have just kept the boring name they came with. We called our current boat Eternity because the word was chalked in a lovely hand all over Sydney in the 50's and 60's and so gives the boat an association to where it's moored.
 
Mine came with sandgrounder,

given to it by the guy who designed and built her in california, seemingly its the nickname of people from southport, which he was and being a swing keel she takes the ground nae bother
 
Ken

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1st Mr Bojangles, coz I liked the record


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Thats spooky, we were going to call our current boat the same name for the same reason!

We like the Sammy D Junior version best.
 
We had no choice but to rename our boat as the seller wanted to retain the name. Because she's part 1 registered we had to find a unique name, which proved difficult. I'm of the school that likes to have a female name for a boat.

After many bottles of wine and abortive calls to the registration centre, we almost settled on Ingeborg after my youngest niece but didn't like it in the cold light of day. We asked my mother-in-law to go through some dance books and find us a nice dancer's name. She came up with Carmen Amaya, a feisty flamenco dancer who made her debut in a seedy waterside bar in Barcelona. We both liked the name and association, so Amaya it is.
 
Mr Bojangles - the story

Original version was by Jerry Jeff Walker...

DAVID BROMBERG:
This is really a true story, you know, a lot of people have heard the song, and... Well, at least, Jerry Jeff tells me it's a true... true story.

I played guitar with Jerry Jeff Walker for about two years and we... we did this song every night for two years., and I never got tired of it. Jerry got a little tired of it -- at night, after the clubs would close, we'd do horrible things to it...

'Twas a true story, he... this guy, Bojangles, was a... he was a street dancer in New Orleans, and what he'd do, he'd go from bar to bar and... he'd put money in the juke box, or get somebody else to do it... And then he'd either dance or pantomime the tune. And for that, people would buy him drinks and get him pretty drunk, and then he'd go on to the next bar, and the next one, until it was closing time... and then he'd go on, the next night. After a few nights of this, he'd end up on the corner, and the cops would pick him up and then take him to the drunk tank -- this is where Jerry Jeff met him.

Jerry Jeff wasn't there on a research project -- I mean, the way I got that story, I may have that wrong, but the way I got that is that he propositioned the right woman at the right time and the wrong place -- and her husband, the bartender... called the cops, and they took Jerry to the... Parish jail. And he and this guy just talked for three days in the cell about what've you got...

Intro of song as performed on "Demon In Disguise," 1972;
transcribed by Manfred Helfert.
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ORIGINAL LYRICS
as reprinted in liner notes for Jerry Jeff Walker, "Five Years Gone"
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I knew a man Bojangles and he danced for you
In worn out shoes;
With silver hair, a ragged shirt, and baggy pants,
The old soft shoe.
He jumped so high, he jumped so high,
Then he'd lightly touch down
Mr. Bojangles, Mr. Bojangles, Mr. Bojangles,
Dance!

I met him in a cell in New Orleans, I was
Down and out.
He looked to me to be the eyes of age
As he spoke right out
He talked of life, he talked of life,
He laugh-slapped his leg a step.

He said the name, Bojangles, and he danced a lick
Across the cell.
He grabbed his pants, a better stance, he jumped up high,
He clicked his heels.
He let go a laugh, he let go a laugh,
Shook back his clothes all around.
Mr. Bojangles, Mr. Bojangles, Mr. Bojangles,
Dance!

He danced for those at minstrel shows and county fairs
Throughout the South.
He spoke with tears of fifteen years how his dog and him
Had traveled about.
His dog up and died, he up and died,
After 20 years he still grieves.
Mr. Bojangles, Mr. Bojangles, Mr. Bojangles,
Dance!

He said "I dance now at ev'ry chance in honky tonks
For drinks and tips.
But most of the time I spend behind these county bars
'Cause 'I drinks a bit."
He shook his head, and as he shook his head I heard someone ask "Please,
Mr. Bojangles, Mr. Bojangles, Mr. Bojangles,
Dance!"
 
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I'm of the school that likes to have a female name for a boat.



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Me too. I once thought of calling our boat Connie Lingus - it just happened to be on the tip of my tongue at the time ! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
 
Do you mean this one?

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Re: Mr Bojangles - the story

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