Strange yacht names

[catmandoo]

it seems to be the fashion among continentals to give their boats English names . However direct translation produces strange results eg

WET DREAM.

anyone seen similar oddities ? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[michael_w]

Wind Song
Wind Dancer
Mac 26

et al

 

[Gin]

Passing Wind
Cunning Stunts

 

[moondancer]

A boat on the Crouch called :

Fannys Prospect

 

[Sybarite]

A French America's Cup entrant called French Kis sponsored by a firm called Kis.

John

 

[jimmynoboat]

I saw a racing dinghy for sale once called ... 'Blow Job'

 

[Sgeir]

I like the one on the Clyde with the very Classical sounding name of Batheus. Which is fine.

Particularly when pronounced with a west of Scotland accent.

 

[EdWingfield]

I recently saw a derelict mobo up a muddy creek near Newcastle named 'Toon Tanic' /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[A_7]

'Psorosis Of The River' always makes me chuckle.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Scruffy narrow boat on the Grand Union called 'Gin Palace'

 

[FullCircle]

There is a 707 on the Crouch called Joe Blob.

Used to be a Beneteau First Class 8 (I think) calld DV8.

 

[Jonny_H]

The RS range of dinghies has some interesting names in the fleet:

Nice RS
Oh RS!
Kiss my RS
RS Hole
RS over tit
etc etc

Jonny

 

[Deleted member 478]

Written up-side-down on a laser dingy;
oopsie-lasie

 

[PeteCooper]

When Sonatas were popular on the Clyde there was one called 'Wicked Willy'. At one of the Kip based regattas the Sonata moored next to this one got the temporary name 'Ferocious Fanny'. At another regatta a boat called 'First by Farr' had not done very well, so it became 'Last by Miles'.

 

[Gerry]

Posted on a navtex message looking for missing boat FANNY MAGNET! No it wasn't 1st April. Boat was posted missing off the Azores, we saw the message in Gibraltar and the very same boat T boned us in Tobago late one night!

'This way up" bit of a temptation to fate that one!
'Dogs Bollocks' small motor cruiser in Vilamoura, Portugal.

Big Bill , we thought most appropriate as it was an expensive new boat but the owner told us it was named after The Blues Brothers charactar!

Amongst the superyachts in St Maarten - One More Toy,
Golden Cage.

 

[ex-Gladys]

People really don't think of the impact of having to repeat the name thrice over VHF do they? That's why Gainsborough Lady became Gladys....

 

[LymingtonPugwash]

As a youngster in Lymington, I bought a mean looking black hulled Osprey racing dinghy and very innocently decided to name it 'Black Shadow' /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif and had the name painted very large down the length of both sides of the boat! It was almost a month before anybody actually felt sorry enough for me to tell me why everyone was so amused at the name and used to snigger whenever they saw it!
Ahh, those days of lost innocence! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif





For those innocents out there, who like myself have no idea, those were the early days of the 'Durex' company beginning to market strange 'rubbers', one of which was called......... 'Black Shadow'.............. Well? How was I to know?





Actually, a friend and fellow Osprey sailor named his boat, 'Don't Panic!'...... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Always thought that was one of the best names out for an all out racing dinghy!

 

[gerryl]

I've seen 'Shy tot' in the solent several times...

 

[Cornishman]

About 20 years ago there was a small Moody (29 I think) called Don't Panic. At the same time the RN had a frigate called HMS Sirius. How I longed to hear a vhf call "Don't Panic, this is Sirius" but I never heard it.

There is an X Class yacht which races regularly at Saltash SC called Xtorsion8

 

[Gerry]

Wonderful! Thats one I would love to hear!
Best I ever heard was True Love calling Romance.........both male single handers???