Thought on a boats name , please

I like Harlot. I wish I’d thought of it. I wanted to call ours Fallen Madonna but couldn't get committee approval. For something more genteel I quite fancy Maiko, a trainee geisha.
 
Well thinking over how over time names etc can get changed or adapted to suit that days purpose , I am sure my Parents would have used the term Prostitute to cover the term Harlot , nowadays the term 'Sex Worker' seems the favourite , mind you the term , or endearement , 'friends with extras' or 'friend with benefits' all, seem comon usage in certain younger circles ; my how our volcabuary changes over time and circumstances !

Anyways gona have some sleep before deciding the Launch name , and Harlot does appeal to me , mind you I bet not many persons will know its original meaning , so as suggest above , I might have some explaining to do ? {:-)#
 
johnalison said:
I like Harlot. I wish I’d thought of it. I wanted to call ours Fallen Madonna but couldn't get committee approval. For something more genteel I quite fancy Maiko, a trainee geisha.
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Not many people would know that a maiko is a trainee geisha. You might want to avoid peoples' misconception of the term 'geisha' ( which actually just means 'performer') by going for the Kyoto term of 'geiko'.
 
One of the most important things with a boat name is that it can be easily be transmitted over the radio with clarity, and not give rise to confusion.

For example, I would have quite liked Bam Bam (one of my favourite Toots and the maytals songs), but it sounds far too similar to Pan Pan to be a good idea.
 
Well I am up later than I wanted to be , (many phone calls etc ) at the mo , HARLOT appeals to me ; not having a living wife these days I am safe from rebutals from that viewpoint ; only a Sister , Cousins and wider family to show any disagreements to my wishes or desires , or indeed my wayward ways of later years

Just hope that the Ladies working in the Harbour Office oh and the new Harbour Master to confuse or ruffle their feathers , just as I am getting certain changes to our Authority Rules and obligations relaxed and now have permission to tempoaraly moor up to a THA beach line for a short while ; whist swapping over moorings , (first time granted permission like that in 15 years , nobody else believes me that I do have permission) its not April 1st yet is it ?
 
Praxinoscope said:
But it’s a bit like the morse code and lags that I learned for the Yachtmaster almost 50; years ago, it’s in my poor old brain somewhere, just not sure where to find it.
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Morse is even weirder. I did it for my ham radio licence and you needed to get to 12wpm to pass. Took me a year and I suddenly shot from 10wpm to more than 20 as it went from having to think what ..-. was to simply knowing without thought. But the really odd thing was that I was then able to hold a conversation with someone whilst morse was coming from the receiver and my hand was writing down the corresponding words. The "translation" was completely subconscious.

Cant even remember the morse alphabet now.
 
Birdseye said:
Morse is even weirder. I did it for my ham radio licence and you needed to get to 12wpm to pass. Took me a year and I suddenly shot from 10wpm to more than 20 as it went from having to think what ..-. was to simply knowing without thought. But the really odd thing was that I was then able to hold a conversation with someone whilst morse was coming from the receiver and my hand was writing down the corresponding words. The "translation" was completely subconscious.

Cant even remember the morse alphabet now.
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Following that tangent, years ago there were experiments done on copy/audio typists or similar. Really good ones could cope with two streams of text at the same time. But the streams would differ in speed somewhat. So if they were the same actual text they could be arranged to be distinct initially but gradually become synchronous. At which point, unsurprisingly, the transcriber could not keep them distinct and follow the two different speeds!
 
Birdseye said:
Cant even remember the morse alphabet now.
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Fred Drift.
I did the same, my coastal radio station morse test was in 1982. During lockdown, my interest in radio rekindled. Your knowledge of morse is probably like your knowledge of riding a bike. I believe that, should you have the desire, you would be keying or paddling at your previous speed and comprehension in short order.

(even further drift, if your license has expired, it is very easy to get restored)
 
Skylark said:
Fred Drift.
I did the same, my coastal radio station morse test was in 1982. During lockdown, my interest in radio rekindled. Your knowledge of morse is probably like your knowledge of riding a bike. I believe that, should you have the desire, you would be keying or paddling at your previous speed and comprehension in short order.

(even further drift, if your license has expired, it is very easy to get restored)
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Some bike riders do stick their feet out to the extent that it looks more like paddling than pedalling!
 
mjcoon said:
Following that tangent, years ago there were experiments done on copy/audio typists or similar. Really good ones could cope with two streams of text at the same time. But the streams would differ in speed somewhat. So if they were the same actual text they could be arranged to be distinct initially but gradually become synchronous. At which point, unsurprisingly, the transcriber could not keep them distinct and follow the two different speeds!
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Major thread drift-
I learned to touch type many years ago and still do it every day. If you ask me to find a particular letter on the keyboard by eye I have to search for it, but as soon as I put my fingers on I can find it by touch. Also I feel myself mis-typing things without looking at the screen. (One of the first things you're taught is to stare at the wall while typing and not look at the keys or the screen.)
 
DJE said:
Major thread drift-
I learned to touch type many years ago and still do it every day. If you ask me to find a particular letter on the keyboard by eye I have to search for it, but as soon as I put my fingers on I can find it by touch. Also I feel myself mis-typing things without looking at the screen. (One of the first things you're taught is to stare at the wall while typing and not look at the keys or the screen.)
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It's all about keeping your hand in. I learned shorthand and touch typing. I passed the City and Guilds shorthand test at 100 wpm and used it regularly for the first few years of my career.
But then I got a "desk" job that meant I wasn't using it so much and I got out of practice. While I can still do it, it is creakingly slow and I struggle to read back.
The touch typing, however, never stopped so is just an automatic muscle memory thing.
I think all of these things are very much use it or lose it.
[See also the lights and sounds part of my Yachtmaster test]
 
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