My new favourite boatname: D'eau Vers Causses-Gardes

[tcm]

What a great name eh?

 

[BlueSkyNick]

I hope they dont have to make a Mayday call in the eastern part of the English Channel!

 

[RobF]

I hope they dont have to make a Mayday call in the eastern part of the English Channel!

That was my thought and I'm surprised they were allowed to register their boat with that name - a bit like calling a boat Dame A!

 

[Poignard]

Well at least it might discourage her owner from asking Solent Coastguard for radio checks, after he has had to spell it a few times.

 

[Seajet]

IS it a registered name ? If so I'm very surprised.

I remember a Feeling type boat called 'That Sinking Feeling', I bet she's not called that now...

And there the old favourites

'Red Alert' ( boats for miles around with crews tumbling out of bunks )

and 'Shy Talk' which I did consider calling my Osprey dinghy, at least a bird theme...

 

[rickym]

I have seen 'Shy Tot' and 'Fartybartplast' the latter was asked to spell the name by Poole Quay marina a few years ago. The laughter could be heard for miles!

A bit pointless having a stupid name especially if you need to call someone on the radio.

 

[Seajet]

Years ago I shared an old International 14 dinghy with a chum; at his suggestion ( beer may have been involved ) we painted her yellow and named her 'Cowards' Way'.

 

[Touchwood]

My first boat, a sailing dinghy of uncertain marque, was named "Lucy Lastic"
Had a charming little painting on the transom of a buxom blonde holding up her knickers - main reason I kept it so long.

 

[Searush]

I still like "Mafeking".

As in "it's ma fecking boat, innit?"

 

[Twister_Ken]

There's a GK29 moored on the Hamble, just upstream of Mercury. It's called Chesterton. Always brings a smile.

 

[Magnum]

"Mais Dais" has a familiar ring to it.

 

[stephenh]

"Trisco" (sp?)

Apparently the name of a purified cooking lard.

The owner was from 'oop North' and liked Spoonerisms.

The boat was, of course, a catamaran.

 

[Slow_boat]

There was a Cherub called 'Hoofed' with a heart (the cherub class symbol) between 'Hoof' and 'ed'

The things we find funny when we're young, eh?

 

[Seajet]

stephenh,

do you mean the catamaran called 'cooking fat' ?!

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

I hope they dont have to make a Mayday call in the eastern part of the English Channel!

They'd have no trouble with me..... According to the Morgana book of French pronunciation it goes something like

Doh Verse Causes Gardess

Should be OK with that I reckon.... just make sure you've had enough MoJeeters first..

 

[sarabande]

a boaty nursery rhyme is recalled to mind, tcm:-


Si sot, mare, je ris d'eau
J'hoquet, chat lave ennui mât stère.
Et châle Ève bèta panne y aider
Bécots. Si Carnot turc et n'y fasse taire


You will recall that Carnot was a French mathematician who was a pioneer in the principles of thermodynamics. Without the Carnot cycle, heat engines would not work, so mobo-ists should feel particularly grateful.

 

[Slow_boat]

There was a Cherub called 'Hoofed' with a heart (the cherub class symbol) between 'Hoof' and 'ed'

The things we find funny when we're young, eh?

 

[Twister_Ken]

a boaty nursery rhyme is recalled to mind, tcm:-


Si sot, mare, je ris d'eau
J'hoquet, chat lave ennui mât stère.
Et châle Ève bèta panne y aider
Bécots. Si Carnot turc et n'y fasse taire

Reminds me of a Frogyot that sailed in Cowes Week years ago, called "Les Copains Bâbord"

 

[FullCircle]

I had a Minisail called 6 7/8"

Capsize.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

I had a Moth called 'crash'