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

[tcm]

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.

Pas de lieu, Rhone que nous!

 

[Sybarite]

I remember a Scorpion dinghy at the Strangford Lough Yacht Club called SLYC CHYC.

 

[wooslehunter]

Here's a few more:

Dad's Solo is named Poubelle. Sounds quite nice unless you speak french in which case you know it meens dustbin.

I spotted a boat on the hard at Port Solent the other day named Burnadebt.

I was once trying to impress a young lady at the uni sailing club many years ago. We were talking about boat names & I got Cunning Stunt wrong (bit drunk). Didn't impress her.

The of course there's the one that went aground on Ryde Sands a few years ago. The lifeboat cox's message back to coasty went something like ".... have located Kinky Black Underwear & pulled it off....." He broadcast that one on ch16 rather than the private one.

 

[Sybarite]

Back to the source

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rslShTbqNbo

Non, ce n'était pas le radeau
De la Méduse, ce bateau
Qu'on se le dise au fond des ports
Dise au fond des ports
Il naviguait en pèr' peinard
Sur la grand-mare des canards
Et s'app'lait les Copains d'abord
Les Copains d'abord

Ses fluctuat nec mergitur
C'était pas d'la litterature
N'en déplaise aux jeteurs de sort
Aux jeteurs de sort
Son capitaine et ses mat'lots
N'étaient pas des enfants d'salauds
Mais des amis franco de port
Des copains d'abord

C'étaient pas des amis de luxe
Des petits Castor et Pollux
Des gens de Sodome et Gomorrhe
Sodome et Gomorrhe
C'étaient pas des amis choisis
Par Montaigne et La Boetie
Sur le ventre ils se tapaient fort
Les copains d'abord

C'étaient pas des anges non plus
L'Évangile, ils l'avaient pas lu
Mais ils s'aimaient tout's voil's dehors
Tout's voil's dehors
Jean, Pierre, Paul et compagnie
C'était leur seule litanie
Leur Credo, leur Confiteor
Aux copains d'abord

Au moindre coup de Trafalgar
C'est l'amitié qui prenait l'quart
C'est elle qui leur montrait le nord
Leur montrait le nord
Et quand ils étaient en détresse
Qu'leurs bras lancaient des S.O.S.
On aurait dit les sémaphores
Les copains d'abord

Au rendez-vous des bons copains
Y avait pas souvent de lapins
Quand l'un d'entre eux manquait a bord
C'est qu'il était mort
Oui, mais jamais, au grand jamais
Son trou dans l'eau n'se refermait
Cent ans après, coquin de sort
Il manquait encore

Des bateaux j'en ai pris beaucoup
Mais le seul qu'ait tenu le coup
Qui n'ai jamais viré de bord
Mais viré de bord
Naviguait en père peinard
Sur la grand-mare des canards
Et s'app'lait les Copains d'abord
Les Copains d'abord

 

[xyachtdave]

Oh yes, the boat name thread! (again!)

My favourites, for racing sailing vessels only....

Moisture Missile
Testicle Festival
Ginger Stepchild
Problem Child
High Voltage

The more cruiser orientated can stick with Bethany Grace, Puddle Dumpling etc etc

 

[Marmalade]

In Ipswich...

Π sing in the wind

 

[Resolution]

What a great name eh?

Not if you are buying a new boom cover - and paying by the letter!

 

[Paddy_N_Murphy]

My Optimist was : "intergalactic gargleblaster" It cover the transom port to starb'd

Then my brother got one, and it was renamed to match.
We had:

Flotsam, and Jetsam

 

[jordanbasset]

The boat name that made me chuckle was -

'Never again...2'

 

[Ubergeekian]

a boaty nursery rhyme is recalled to mind...

Both of these are excellent, though there are a few in each I still haven't decoded.

 

[Seajet]

Paddy N Murphy,

being a pedant, wasn't the term 'Pan-Galagtic Gargleblaster' ? Maybe avoiding the 'pan' was a good idea though...

Most will be familiar with GK24 & 29's, as the first ( a successful racing boat ) was called 'Giant Killer', it led to the GK classes and a tradition of naming the boats G-something K-something evolved, with 'Get Knotted', Get Kracking' etc.

A friend was keen to buy one so that he could call it 'Ginger K***', but thankfully that particular idea was shelved...

 

[Bosun Higgs]

Saw a mobo at the then Moody boat sale named Hello. Just imagine that on channel 16

And there's one in our club marina called "the Office". No doubt handy when saying to SWMBO when her parents are visiting - "just off into the Office to deal with some problems dear".

 

[Hayling]

What's in a name?

I had an old Microplas called 'On Business', as in 'He's out the office on.....'
And a Wayfarer called ' Fore Sail' (I'm an Estate Agent)
and a Buzz called 'Kiss my Transom'
and an RS 'Hello Buoys'

And am a lot better at naming boats than racing them!

 

[harry potter]

I always liked ' The Habitual Concubine' as only the owner of the boat and the aforesaid are/were allowed to be in command in French waters.

 

[blueglass]

one in Conwy called "The Bog's Dollocks" was always a favourite.

 

[raven]

There's one sails out of either Abersoch or Pwelly called "Fun To Fondle" - know this because very (very) often hear a ditzy female crewmember calling up Holyhead CG for a radio check

 

[Steve Clayton]

A few years ago in Swanwick; a racing powerboat "Skid Mark"

 

[sarabande]

ah, the scientist wins ! I have the French version, but not the German one.

Yes, it's hard work, but fun.