Memorable boat names

[Amulet]

Even the Scots dialect impaired must like the mirror dinghy called:
"Maid Freya Kitt"
Someone posted it the last time this theme came round.

 

[Grumpybear]

Cirrhosis of the River. belonged to a TV newsreader who liked his pop.

 

[blackbeard]

Fishing vessel "Castanet"

Also: Fireball sailing dinghy "Rising Damp" (Fireball crew will understand).

 

[semisimple]

Rock Dodger (heard over the radio somewhere in the Solent)...waiting for it to run agr....

 

[FistralG]

Mobo in falmouth Marina..."Unsinkable II"
A long time ago I had an 18ft single hander catamaran with trapeze called "Cats An Over"!
club mate with Laser called..."Pistol Kight"

 

[VO5]

Seen in Maryland..."Pissin".

 

[Skysail]

I always liked the Enterprise sailed by a very charming man and his wife.

It was called 'Moveover Darling'.

 

[Ubergeekian]

Even the Scots dialect impaired must like the mirror dinghy called:
"Maid Freya Kitt"
Someone posted it the last time this theme came round.

Damn your eyes. That was me, and I was about to post it again. Used to live at Tighnabruiach.

 

[VO5]

Just remembered another two seen in Key Biscayne, Florida...

"Love Boat"

"Klitopatra"

 

[Boomshanka]

A fast looking racer on the solent is called 'Shy Tot'

 

[E39mad]

Ingotism - the boat of the Bank of England - even though we don't have a gold standard nowadays... It was an Oyster the time we we rafted up together.

They used to have a Bene 42s7 of the same name - now known as Ingo - one of Beneteaus best that Farr design imho

"Purple Headed Trouser Ferret" is one from a dinghy that always makes me laugh.

 

[rotrax]

Hi, Had a 16 foot outboard powered plywood cruiser once-way back in the seventies. Private Eye through the good offices of the late Peter Cook gave Barry Humphries a job doing a regular strip cartoon about an uncouth Aussie named Barrie McKenzie. We called our renovated boat "BAZZA" after this ficticious character. One day while exploring the Oxford Canal a couple of P.E. readers called across the lock " Hey sport-where's your technicolour yawn" It bought the house down.

 

[wot]

During WW2, the RN had the Flower class of corvette, all named surprisingly after flowers. My favourite has always been HMS PANSY. I can always picure the scene and hear the call at inter-ship competitions:
"Come on You PANSIES"

 

[Achillesheel]

Seen on a tender:-

"Gizmo, tender to Widget"

 

[oldsaltoz]

Lacanooky, and WOFTAM (Waste Of Friggin Time And Money). Also Amow, (All My Own Work).

Finally, The Pride Of Oleron, named after the small island off the the Spanish coast where the Magnacerter was signed and the first Laws of the sea.

She was also referred to as POO

 

[chewi]

Sailbad the Sinner.
Golden B. Hind (on a yellowish dinghy)
Pistol Nite

 

[trapezeartist]

Also: Fireball sailing dinghy "Rising Damp" (Fireball crew will understand).

A few other Fireballs:
Big Bright Red Floating Bed
Got the Sheets
Whistling Gorilla
Basic Instinct
Chunky Monkey

And Ronan Veal's first successful foiling Moth was called White Knuckle Express (and I should think it was too!).

 

[Liz_I]

'Wet Dreams' & 'Sticky Fingers'. Best of all an Aussie boat 'Veggiemite on Toast'.

 

[Rum_Pirate]

'TIAMI" a cat in Barbados


This Is A Major Investment.

 

[Csail]

My best ones were 'piston broke' & 'pistol knight'