Renaming the boat...what'll it be?

[Greenheart]

There's a Natalie Wood bio on channel 5. And putting aside her tragic and mysterious death, after swimming from a yacht...

...I was thinking I want to rename my boat, something less awful than it had been called...Super Star I believe, and more recently, Nimbus. The latter will require rubbing compound to erase...the letters, about 15" high, are still visible along the side.

I'd thought my boat should be named something at least as fine as my ambitions for her, despite remarks hereabouts that at my rate of refurbishing, she'll spend all her days in the greenery of the dinghy-park...

...so, perhaps I'll call her Splendor, in memory of Natalie Wood? As in, Splendor in the Grass? It needs cutting, she'll get osmosis at this rate.

No. Terrible idea, and American spelling.

Nice to pick a great name for a boat, which'll never embarrass her owners, or look wildly inappropriate, or too lofty, or sickly, or need explaining.

It's not so different from naming daughters, I expect. Some awful girls' names out there, which immediately condemn the parents' taste.

 

[interloper]

^^ The movie was "Splendor in the Grass," but the Wood-Wagner yacht was named "Splendour."

 

[nigelmercier]

How about Natalie Dressed.

 

[HinewaisMan]

Or "Not Waving..."?

 

[Deleted member 36384]

Protracted Promise

 

[Seajet]

When I shared an old Int 14 in the 80's we painted it yellow and called it ' Cowards Way '...

Other names which might suit an Osprey are ' Shy Talk ' and ' Bird Of Prey ' ( with the silhouette of a Klingon B of P ).

Any boat I have next of whatever type will be called ' Jenny ' after a dear departed friend.

It's always easy to think of names until you have to do it !

 

[Marakei]

You should ask your missus if she wants it named for her. I asked my other half whether he'd like a boat named after him and he said, 'oh god no', but I think asking was the polite thing to do.

 

[LittleSister]

There's a Natalie Wood bio on channel 5. And putting aside her tragic and mysterious death

Maybe 'Battered and Tipsy'?!

Or, perhaps as a different type of controversy, how about 'West Side Story' on one side of the boat, and 'East Side Story' on the other?

 

[johnalison]

I've always like the old warship names. What about Dreadnought, or Indefatigable?

 

[Greenheart]

...the Wood-Wagner yacht was named "Splendour."

Good grief, I had no idea! I'm embarrassed to have made light of it.

There are a fair number of really great evocative names for boats - with elegant names from literature & Classics, pleasingly suggestive of the owner's education.

Although possibly a ten-foot rubber dinghy doesn't look right with Eumenides italicised across a hardwood nameplate...

...but that's no excuse for the hundreds of god-awful names that are spilt over clean new glassfibre every year...you know who you are...or perhaps you don't?

 

[Humblebee]

My user name is taken from the name of my first boat and must be one of the worst...just can't be bothered changing it!

 

[FistralG]

... more recently, Nimbus. The latter will require rubbing compound to erase...the letters, about 15" high, are still visible along the side....

How about Firebolt?

 

[Seajet]

I've always like the old warship names. What about Dreadnought, or Indefatigable?

As long as you don't follow American warships, like the USS Ponce; I've always thought they could sell spectator tickets if doing a run ashore in Portsmouth with that written on their hats.

 

[Blueboatman]

Dans Dare
'Natalie Dressed' from Nigel is best so far innit on course

 

[interloper]

As long as you don't follow American warships, like the USS Ponce; I've always thought they could sell spectator tickets if doing a run ashore in Portsmouth with that written on their hats.

There have been worse, the USS Glenard P. Lipscomb for instance.

 

[Uricanejack]

Didn't the Royal Navy name all the Corvettes after Flowers.
Was there ever an HMS Pansy? or did they skip that one.
The Compass Rose was fictional. But a good story.

 

[Seajet]

Didn't the Royal Navy name all the Corvettes after Flowers.
Was there ever an HMS Pansy? or did they skip that one.
The Compass Rose was fictional. But a good story.

Well they did with the WWII Flower Class corvettes; inc HMS Snowberry etc, though I reckon that quite survivable compared to having ' Ponce ' on one's hat !