Inapropriate Boat names!

Cunning stunt or Mary Hinge tends to irritiate the ship's registry.

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It's much cheaper to have a short name. Vinyl stickers tend to be charged by the letter. By the time you have put the boat's name on the stern, the bows, the lifejackets, the lifebuoys, the danbouy, the tender, the clothing, the liferaft, the outboard, your hat etc: you could have spent quite a fortune.

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Re: "Wayne Kerr"

I was going to comment that I use their test equipment regularly, especially sig gens and frequency counters,

Always gets a snigger from me in work though when I have to request a Wayne Kerr from test equipment stores [snigger]

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If you actually are going to LIKE your boat, and one presumes this will be the case, then call her by a name that reflects that pride of ownership.
Which begs the question of what the owners of 'Titus Canby' and 'Naughty Black Underwear' felt about their boats. I may have the last one wrong slighlty, but as he had to call the coastguard because he had run aground somewhere in or near the Solent, you can draw your own conclusions on what other sailors thought of him!

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I'm in a tedious mood this evening, so feel duty bound to be utterly boring and point out that what may seem uproariously funny when creted might well become tacky after a season or so. Names such as 'llamedos', 'pistol dawn' get to wear a bit thin.

Now that my worst fears over the EA seem to be coming to fruition (see elsewhere re: license prosecution) it will only a short time before SSR and other Govt depts clamp down on all names.... (EA are threatening banning offensive names in their latest attempt to rule the world)

To be really witty takes a lot of effort.

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I once saw a Virgo Voyager named "Virgin on the Ridiculous". I would have had trouble living with that.

And as Membership Sec of the Seal Sailing Association I get to see name changes as they happen - and only one owner so far has dared to use the latin name for seal which is "phoca" (actually the Portugese "foca" which is perhaps even dodgier!). That was quite recent - it remains to be seen if he sticks with it!

Geoff

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Yes, 'Naughty Black Underwear' caused a smile. A 'Shy Talk' used to sail the Bristol Channel single handed, was but was well known and usually replied to by his callsign. I never felt the need to meet the owner of 'Piston Broke'.

'Shiny Shovel' was fast and used to race with 'Plastic Bag - Native of Hong Kong Harbour'.

My first boat was slow and came with the name 'Shilly Shally' - true to her nature.


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You just reminded me of when I joined HMCG, my first boss was just retiring and it was very soon his last day of some 35 years in the ops room.

On this last day a yacht with a long convoluted name called up to pass traffic. 35 years of “please start by spelling you vessel’s name…..” was changed into the parting shot - ‘Yacht with a stupid name – you’ll have to spell it.’ It seemed to relieve him of a certain stress.

The easy names are so nice. /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

Of course - it is absolutely up to you what you call her - except 'May's Days' or similar as you will forever keep on being challenged on ch16.

Good luck with the big hunt.


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Mobo in Birdham Pool: "That's a good idea, Grandad"...not such a good idea if you need to call the CG.

Our last poat was called "Kinsail", a play on Kinsale, from where my husband's family originates.

Also means you can say "B****r this, I'm going Kinsailing"

Sue

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Once heard a Dartmouth based yacht called Don't Panic being called on the VHF by one of HM Ships, which just for once dropped the prefix Warship. The call went something like this
"Don't Panic, this is Sirius"

Most appropriate name I knew belonged to the late Alan Pape's yacht Chateauneuf.

A certain out of town stores magnate in this part of the world called is large mobo after his wife - Old Trout.

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looked at a Fulmar a few years ago called "Chase me!" took it for a test sail stopped in Cowes yacht haven;

"Name of vessel sir"
"Chase me"
"If you like sir"
"hmm funny!!" - didn't buy the boat!!

Apparently it was some reference to some tax dodge or something!!

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