pet names for instruments!

[Nostrodamus]

Boat owners seem very proficient at giving various bits of their boat pet names.
The auto pilot always seems to be named.
What names have you got on your boat for various places or things?

 

[Magaz97]

Windicator
Depthicator
Speedicator

 

[DJE]

When the kids sailed with us everything seemed to get named after Harry Potter characters. The engine was Hagrid and the gps was Hermione.

I know of a boat where the autopilot is called Pontius!

 

[prv]

The autopilot gets a name (George) because it does something that a person normally does. I don't feel any need to name other parts of the boat.

Pete

 

[maby]

Windicator
Depthicator
Speedicator

I leave the dehumidificator running most of the winter. The Eberspacher has a variety of names in January and February when it refuses to ignite, but all of them would be reported as asterisks here!

 

[PatrickB02]

The tillerpilot is Eddie - Steady Eddie
And the outboard is Freddie - 'cos its a Mercury..!

 

[geoid96]

Our auto pilot is known as "Otto" and the chart plotter as "Penny". In the latter case, this follows on from the car sat nav that was always called Penny Pathfinder by our daughter.

 

[dylanwinter]

my tillerpilot is "Raymond"

 

[seumask]

Tiller pilot is called "A-go", because when our son was 5 "A-go" and "Darney" were made up as fiticious friends by him on our first big family cruise to the Channel Islands, they stayed on board ever since, and seems to like it! Darney does the electronics bit and A-go does tiller bit! We were so impressed with A-go and Darney's abilities to surf the boat in big sea's that they are favorites on board!

 

[Leif-J]

Out tiller pilot is Helmer - a bit old fashioned Danish boy's name, and quite appropriate, we think!

 

[SeamanStaines]

I seem to remember that calling the autopilot George started in the RAF?

The autopilot gets a name (George) because it does something that a person normally does. I don't feel any need to name other parts of the boat.

Pete

 

[Wansworth]

my tillerpilot is "Raymond"

do you ever call it "Ray"......for short?

 

[Georgio]

My tillerpilot is called "Ray" while the Wind-Pilot is called "Wendy".

Nothing else on board is named but I do talk to the boat, and Wendy when sailing alone. Ray is less of a conversationalist.

 

[Wansworth]

My tillerpilot is called "Ray" while the Wind-Pilot is called "Wendy".

Nothing else on board is named but I do talk to the boat, and Wendy when sailing alone. Ray is less of a conversationalist.

Maybe you should call it "RAYMOND" ...might respond to a more formal relationship.

 

[Koeketiene]

What names have you got on your boat for various places or things?

Autopilot: Snorky (kids came up with it - because of the 'snoring' sound it makes when in use)
Wind genny: Moulinex (because when the wind picks up, it sounds like the wife's blender)
TackTick windex: useless POS - because it is
Aft lazarette: is called 'the cellar' - because it is cavernous

 

[Seatrout]

"Plastic Pete" the Pilot
"Penelope Penta" (only when she behaves!)

 

[Iain C]

My tiller pilot is also Ray...but he's a Raymondo, a charachter from "Ashes to Ashes"

That's naturally spread to the engine, a Lombardini, so sometimes it's a case of "fire up the Lambo" (or Lombo, depending on how we're feeling).

And lastly, we have the luxury of diesel heating. We call that unit "Justin"


















Justin Bieberspacher.

 

[capnsensible]

We spent a season in the Caribbean with an outboard called 'Start you b@stard'.

 

[OGITD]

The only thing named is 'George' ..... so just how did the standard / generic name for the Autopilot become George?

Many other things can aquire the name 'F-Kin' (whatever it is) .....

 

[capnsensible]

Our aft cabin has been called the playpen.