Rename Freestyle competition

[Danny Jo]

Lakesailor rightly points out that "Freestyle" is an inappropriate name for a boat that is confined to home waters for 46 weeks of the year owing to, er, the domestic commitments of her owner.

More appropriate names might be:

Wooden wimper

Lackaball

Blow Anchor

The contributor of the best suggestion will get two pints of their chosen ale, to be collected in Oban on June 3 or June 10, or other Irish sea or Scottish loch by arrangement.

 

[MoodySabre]

"Apron strings"

"Sanity"

Or just face the truth "Scarlet Lady"

from a sympathsizer

 

[Bajansailor]

Lovely photo! Where was it taken?

Is the Freestyled Fondue a Warwick Collins design with one of his tandem keels? I remember reading a write up about her some years back. And I think she made a voyage to the Windies as well at some stage?
I hope that the FF (or whatever her new name will be) will undertake a(nother) expedition to low latitudes again soon.

 

[jimmynoboat]

'Fair Play'

 

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

"Moreaswell"

"No Strings Attached"

"Yez Ma'am"

 

[Danny Jo]

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Lovely photo! Where was it taken?


[/ QUOTE ] Thanks. Loch Fyne - Inveraray castle in the background. [ QUOTE ]
Is the Freestyled Fondue a Warwick Collins design with one of his tandem keels? I remember reading a write up about her some years back.

[/ QUOTE ] Yes.
Warwick never managed to patent it, and now sees his keel cloned as an option on some of the Etap yachts. This is Freestyle's keel

It has a number of advantages, including that of taking the ground in a vertical position, as in this picture taken of her aground in Still Pond Creek (East Coast USA).

 

[Danny Jo]

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Moreaswell

[/ QUOTE ] This one is intriguing. I had toyed with "Morawel" - from the Welsh mor=sea and awel=breeze - but friends put me off by pointing out that it is a common boat name.

More a swell - I don't get it - please put me out of my misery.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Duncruising?

Local Hero?

Vagabound?

Home Service?

Mild Rover?

 

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

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More a swell - I don't get it - please put me out of my misery.

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"More as well" i.e., you don't just have the boat, you have more as well. As in, there is also the giver of sailing licenses. The boat is NOT the (only) love of your life. Well, maybe it is but I won't tell anyone! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Danny Jo]

Sanity is out, because there are 17 of them listed on the ITU database, including one which quotes the Marx bros term "Sanity Clause"

Scarlet lady has 8 entries on the ITU database, but nobody seems to have chosen "Belle du jour". This would be great except, um, it would sound a bit slurred in "Sanity, sanity, this is Belledujour, Belledujour, over." "Belledujour, belledujour, this is sanity sanity, channel eighta foura. You been at the whisky again? over"

Fair play has 13 entries on ITU.

The one that amused my children most was "Lump sum" (seen near the southern entrance to Crinnan).

 

[Danny Jo]

Duncruising is the first onto the short list. But it might be eclipsed by the one that it brings to mind: "Fag end", the home that Joshua Slocum bought with the proceeds of "Sailing alone around the world".

 

[Danny Jo]

Time for a vote

The shortlist now consists of the following boat names (followed by the proposer, albeit indirectly)