Stupid names for boats

[colingr]

Boat called "Bootle Bum Trinket" up river from Portsmouth - is this a phrase used in Merseyside or is there some other meaning, or just a silly name(IMHO)!

That was the name of Gerald Durrell's boat in My Family and Other Animals.

I think just a silly name, but slightly endearing all the same

 

[Highland Bear]

I live in hope that the owner of a certain furniture warehouse in Northampton will head off down the Nene to the East Coast in a boat named after his company, Sofa King.


He might even add the strap line he uses in all his marketing "...where prices are Sofa King low!"

 

[DogWatch]

along the same vein "Indestructible II".

also "Hard Earned Too".

both very proud Mobo owners.

In Pwllheli, BOOBS II, so obviously enjoyed owning BOOBS.

 

[goosewing]

And didnt 'Wishful Thinking' have a wee friend (dinghy?) called 'Wilful Drinking'?
Something that WT's crew subscribed to most enthusiastically......

I knew a yacht once called 'Bucephalus' - and everybody loved to call her 'Booka Phalus'.

'Uffa Fox Sake' is simply classic!

She did Martin but it had one too many on the rocks and was sunk...

 

[grafozz]

no problem

once heard a mayday in the solent when heading east from Yarmouth from a sinking mobo , called ..... yes," No Problem" , we sailed past as the Yarmouth lifeboat rescued it but the conversation leading up to it was so funny " what is your problem , No Problem ?" " No problem , No Problem, No Problem , we have a problem ! "..........
gladly all were ok and the boat , I believe, was towed in .

 

[Slow_boat]

Isn't it strange that the majority of stupid/bad taste/crass names appear to be on mobos or racing boats?

To redress the balance, in the seventies I had 'El Plates', then 'Expletive Deleted'. I crewed a GK24 called 'Ginger Nuts' and there was a Bruce Farr boat called 'Farr Canal'

There's a fast angling boat in Burnham called 'Beaver Hunter' I came across 'Beaver' in Hamford Water last year. She's a Westerly Pageant with slightly dumpy late middle aged owner to match. I can't help feeling the former would be a bit disappointed!

 

[andymcp]

We heard a VHF conversation between a boat and its tender a couple of weeks ago.

"Yacht Scrabble, yacht Scrabble, this is Junior Scrabble, over...."

Made me laugh.

 

[rickym]

Or a Farr designed "Farthing", some of the GK's are clever as are the X's, J's and a C&C called "Change of Course" a tubby Westerly called "Rotunda" is unfortunate though. Westerly Merlin's with wizard names, or a UFO called "Flying Saucer"!

Once heard a yacht called "fartybartplast" call a marina and was asked to spell the name of the boat. The laughter could be heard for miles!!

 

[Oceanis]

One I saw on a Sunsail boat was Campbell's Sloop

 

[Bejasus]

hmmm......

 

[capnsensible]

Betty Swallocks

 

[FB122]

Good names

"Liability"
"Off Duck Fivers"
"Rebecca Soul"
"Colour Climax"
"Prawn again"
"J. Arthur"

 

[ferrymaniom]

I've rooted through my photos and have found the following names inflicted on poor innocent boats:

A-Crewed Interest
Aquaholic
Quax
After You
Falling Upwards
Sea Senora
Next One Up
Toucantango

There really ought to be a law against it.

 

[Tresner]

There's a raggie type boat out here on the Left Coast named "Breaking Wind". Don't know that I would crew on that one.

 

[TradewindSailor]

There's a boat called "Irish Diplomacy" .....

 

[Woodlouse]

Just remembered about the Finnish boat I saw in Sweden a few years back that was simply called...

Prick.

 

[Ron Dean]

Kando & Nokando

Best name ever: A mirror dinghy at Tighnabruiach: "Maid Freya Kitt"

Worst name ever: My boat when she came into the family: "Percy Vere". Though the previous owners, the Taylors, had a son in a wheelchair, so I don't blame them too much. They went on to a specially adapted Fisher 25 which they called, rather nicely I thought, "Taylor Maid"

I'll tell my niece about Percy Vere. She has a sailing dingy called "Nokando".
Her son has "Kando"

 

[strakeryrius]

I saw a fast ski-boat out last weekend with the name Don't Panic - written upside down on the bow.

 

[pwc51]

My wife has always wanted to call out boat 'Blind Date' as you never know who you are going with or where you are going!

 

[Dockhead]

There was a hi-tech catamaran in Trinidad a few years back called

"the meaning of life, the universe, and everything"

I would have called it "42" ...... saves on signwriters fees , and you could have fitted it on one of the skinny transoms.

I saw that boat in St. Vincent, and had dinner with the owner. It WAS called "Forty-Two"; the meaning of life etc. was the tagline. It was a custom-built carbon fibre cat, made in South Africa. I've got a photo somewhere.

And here she is: http://www.luxuryyachtsource.com/yachts/424416d/caribbean_luxury_crewed_yacht_charter_vacation.html