Need a name for a Drascombe Drifter?

[Zagato]

I'm struggling to think of a name for my Drascombe Drifter....Any ideas?

Sandpiper is probably the most commonly used name for a Drascombe, i.e. Estuary bird!

Only come up with 3 so far...

Dawn Drifter
Calidris
Drift Away

 

[Dipper]

Wanderer (fairly common boat name)

Shorelark (only one listed on the MARS site here).

Scared Mob (anagram of Drascombe!).

 

[Searush]

I like "sailbad the sinner"

If you have the bottle.

or "this way up"

or Sloopie

I wouldn't recomend Sea Rush, it's a silly name, but it would cost me 50 squid to change it.

Previous boat was "Arghiro" from Arg (Silver) but with female diminutive, so effectively precious little one. Not seen the name anywhere else.

My pal called his Mafeking, as in ma feckin' boat.

 

[aslabend]

High Plains

 

[Penton Hooker]

You could always resort to a cocktail of family names, or Lady whatever s.w.m.b.o.'s name is.

I well remember a boat called 'Pistol Dawn', always made me smile.

Did pass a boat once where two girls names had been amalgamated, the result was an unpleasant medical condition, best not repeated on here just in case its the name of someone's boat on this forum.

 

[Lakesailor]

Choose a name that is relevant.

My first yacht on the lake was called Substitute, because I sold my Mini and wanted something else to do.

My second was called Slippy because it was a lot quicker than the previous boat.

My clinker dinghy came to me after a chance remark to the owner (I didn't know he had it) so it became Serendipity.

My last yacht Feckless was a private joke between me and a friend.

My new boat will probably be called Smudger 'cos I was a photographer.

As you want to trail-sail why not something like Drybum?

 

[old_salt]

Good name for a Drascombe that will go no further than an Estuary,
"Dream of White Horses".

A few explanations here:-http://www.google.co.uk/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=Dream+of+White+Horses&btnG=Google+Search&oq=Dream+of+White+Horses&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=0l0l0l828l0l0l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0

 

[yellowspinnaker]

DoubleD?

 

[Seajet]

I've mentioned this here before, but I think I came across a great name for a boat when reading the history of HMS Vernon at Portsmouth, the mine & torpedo development centre & training school.

The base had a motley selection of boats for various duties, some of which took part in evacuating the troops from Dunkirk.

One boat did particularly well, rescuing hundreds of soldiers, and the skipper later learned a grateful soldier had named his newborn daughter after the boat.

The boat - and girls' - name; Fidget.

 

[electrosys]

I've decided to call my latest one 'Pandora' on account of all the unexpected evils I discovered after opening-up the buoyancy chambers ...

You could always search through the various Greek and Roman goddeses for something suitable - Athena, Artemis and so on ...
http://www.paleothea.com/Goddesses.html
There's even a goddess of laziness - hmm that's appealing.

Or if you really want to be controversial - try 'Asherah' - who apparently was the wife of Yahweh, the monotheistic god of Judeo-Christian religions - who has been ever-so-carefully air-brushed out of biblical history.

God's missus as a boat-name - yeah, why not ?

 

[Csail]

Think naughtiest one was master baiter on a fishing boat i did.

 

[Sandy]

I'm struggling to think of a name for my Drascombe Drifter....Any ideas?

I like Avocet.

 

[Jim@sea]

"Lucky Bugger"

 

[sarabande]

Herring

 

[fixh1]

Just call it 'Dras', wich is dutch for a bit wet (for land).
'Dras land', is land (with e.g. grass) that is wet, but not completely flooded.

Regards,

Hans Fix

 

[Leonidas]

I like "sailbad the sinner"

If you have the bottle.

or "this way up"

or Sloopie

I wouldn't recomend Sea Rush, it's a silly name, but it would cost me 50 squid to change it.

Previous boat was "Arghiro" from Arg (Silver) but with female diminutive, so effectively precious little one. Not seen the name anywhere else.

My pal called his Mafeking, as in ma feckin' boat.

How about: Sir Ossis of the River. Or is it rererved for mobos ???

 

[ianat182]

How about 'BOBSWORTH' cos they cost a few don't they.?

ianat182

 

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

My first sailing dinghy was named Ataxia, which was quite appropriate because where I wanted to go and where the boat chose to go were often quite different...

My newly acquired Centurion 32 is called Follia Pura (Italian for 'sheer madness'); also appropriate since I still have not sold my Centaur.

 

[jellylegs]

Hobo....?

 

[alahol2]

'Allegro Non Troppo' probably sums up a Drascombe Drifter.