Memorable boat names

[Rum_Pirate]

Temporary Insanity II

One wonders what happened to Temporary Insanity I ?

 

[Woodlouse]

I was quite amused to discover that the yanks have a warship called the USS Ponce. I can't believe they failed to check the dictionary before sending that down the slip.

 

[P4Paul]

Saw a rib in Lymington over the Bank Holiday weekend called:

Ribbed for Pleasure

 

[jhr]

Saw a rib in Lymington over the Bank Holiday weekend called:

Ribbed for Pleasure

There is/was one in Salcombe with the same name. May even be the same boat I guess.

There was a snippet in MB&Y a few years back, about a boat called "Arm and a Leg" (no doubt a reference to the cost of ownership ).

What the owners may, or may not, have realised is that they would be quoted in a national boating magazine as saying "Portland Coastguard, Portland Coastguard; this is Arm and a Leg over......."

 

[rotrax]

I was quite amused to discover that the yanks have a warship called the USS Ponce. I can't believe they failed to check the dictionary before sending that down the slip.

Hi, I expect this ship's name comes from the Spanish adventuer Ponce de Leon-IIRC. He was a nice chap. He ordered the throats of about 300 french sailors to be cut when they were shipwrecked on the east coast of Florida when he was the Spanish governor there. The spot has a plaque and is called Ponce de Leon Inlet. It's just south of St Augustine.

 

[rotrax]

Saw a bright red yacht on the Yealm last June called "Ready Salted"

 

[Boomshanka]

As a laugh, I wondered about calling a boat 'NeeNor'... as in "Neenor, Neenor, Neenor... this is Solent Coastguard"

There's a fishing boat on Southampton water called 'Wage Magnet' (or something very similar)

 

[Billjratt]

Saw "The Dog's Balearics" , a small mobo in Minorca a few yers ago.
"Two Anchors" on a GP14 years ago and the Buckie Lugger.
We have "Thistle Dhu" in our club, and we were goin to call our motor-sailer "Duntakkin" before deciding on Sahona.

 

[KellysEye]

Imagine calling Falmouth coastguard two or three times with these two names;

Exocet Attack - a racing boat
Night - a small Swdish yacht.

 

[Neil]

I had that painted on the underside of my Scorpion dinghy, in the same ' large friendly & comforting ' font as ' The Hitchikers' Guide To the Galaxy ' which used this as a motto.

When we deliberately capsized by the slip one day to do a mandatory buoyancy test, a chap came running forward.

No, the **** wasn't coming to help, he was waving a camera.

I took the hint and became a photographer.

I called my last little mobo "Mostly Harmless", again from Hitchhikers. When a friend heard I was getting a boat with a sail, he said, "Well, that will be completely harmless". So that's what I call it.....

 

[Lucky Duck]

There's a boat at Ipswich called "Dad Won" - it's for sale, so perhaps he's lost now.

Also "Bonus Ball" which IIRC is also for sale, other local favourites are;

'Passing Wind' (First 310, Woolverstone)
'IV Play' (Sonata, West Mersea)
'Phun' (Parker 31, Ramsholt)
'Bow De Sear' (Island Packet, Woolverstone)

 

[Rum_Pirate]

In Trinidad

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F*** Or Swim Home

 

[Interlude]

On a fairly scrappy 22 footer "Plan B"

 

[Seajet]

I admit I've mentioned this one before, but I still think the catamaran named ' Cooking Fat ' was a classic; we've all felt that way sometime, no matter how much we love our boats !

 

[rotrax]

Hi, I've got an 18ft. KMV Skipper open fishing boat called " Happy Hooker "

 

[Simes]

Seen in Cowes a few years ago "Mad Disease of Cowes"

Clever.

Simes