What's in a name?.....your boat.

[taz]

As there's a thread on names of boats it got me thinking, how do you name a boat?


How did you come up with a name for your boat? assuming you did name it.

Having seperated from my wife and finding myself able to do the things I want I decided to buy a boat. Although I haven't found one yet I have decided on the name:

SUBSTITUTE
Force x

for sex

 

[rafiki_]

Taz, my wife and I were on Safari in Kenya when we were discussing our new boat's name. We picked up a few words of Swahili, and settled on Rafiki, which to my knowledge means friend or friendly. We really like the sound of Rafiki, and also felt it easy to spell phonetically on the VHF.

Coincidentally we say Kweheri on a boat on Sunday, which means goodbye in Swahili.

 

[lisilou]

Well 'Lisilou' is one of my nicknames.
L

 

[Paul_G]

Taz, my wife and I were on Safari in Kenya when we were discussing our new boat's name. We picked up a few words of Swahili, and settled on Rafiki, which to my knowledge means friend or friendly. We really like the sound of Rafiki, and also felt it easy to spell phonetically on the VHF.

Coincidentally we say Kweheri on a boat on Sunday, which means goodbye in Swahili.

Swahili seems to be a popular source for boat names. Our UHURU means freedom.

p

 

[matt13]

Swahili? Mines less exotic, the initials of my 2 kids said/spelt phonetically 'eLJay'

 

[bean]

As mentioned on the naming thread our "Oranya" has had her name since 1969 and I can't find the origin. I came across a local company (now defunct) with the same name but I have since found out the company was named after the boat (director owned the boat at the time) so still no closer. I guess it may be a mix of names that meant something to the original owner - any other ideas?

 

[CX54WEK]

We inherited ours when we bought the boat but given how she treated us in the first year of ownership it seemed quite fitting

Naughty-Cal

 

[rlw]

Hmmm,

I started of calling my first 2 Sunseekers Tsunami after reading a novel that featured this phenomenon. No offence to the raggies on here but I saw some similarities with the wake Little was I to know that there was going to be a rather dramatic tsunami in Asia a year after a named the second boat Tsunami. I always used to get blank looks and asked to spell the names in the various ports in holland we visit. After the event nobody ever asked me to spell it again! The harbourmaster in Willemstad made me feel better though. After commenting on the unlucky choice of name he said don't worry I've got 4 others in the database .
When I got my current Targa 40 I decided to change to something more positive and called her Aquaholic.

rlw

 

[vas]

I guess it may be a mix of names that meant something to the original owner - any other ideas?

I'd check cyrillic and russian if I were you...

ouranos == Uranus == sky (in greek)
ourania == female first name in greek and afaik in Russian as well.

phonetically must be quite close anyway.

cheers

V.

 

[Sulley]

Mine is called Akvavit (Swedish spelling) as the other half is Swedish and Akvavit is a schnapps drunk on special occasions.

 

[vas]

MiToS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mito
greek for thread as in Ariadne, Theseus, Minotaur, Labyrinth story

 

[Elessar]

How did you come up with a name for your boat? assuming you did name it.

Boat is Evenstar.

Mrs E's name is Arwen. In Lord of the Rings there is a Lady Arwen Evenstar.
Elessar is her husband........

 

[taz]

Mine is called Akvavit (Swedish spelling) as the other half is Swedish and Akvavit is a schnapps drunk on special occasions.

Aalborg Akvavit was my tipple with(not in) coffee, when I lived in Denmark.

 

[Gavi]

We bought "Ex Libris" with that name already on her. It is Latin for "from books"... and my mother is an author. An odd co-incidence.

 

[watson1959]

Akamas was already named when I bought her last year.

Its a peninsula in Cyprus where the previous owner proposed to his wife. As he had to sell the boat due to his wife's illness I didnt have the heart to change the name.

However.....it's also very apt given that Akamas is also 'unwell' at the moment grrrrrrrr

 

[shetland]

Our boat name is Hydravion, which is a french name for seaplane - the capability to land or take off on the water!!

 

[kashurst]

mines called "Aphrodite" - goddess of love and protector of sailors (so the Greeks believed),
suggested by a friend.

my very first boat was called "Dunheanish" never found out what that meant in any language

 

[Greg2]

Last boat was called 'Breezer'.....partly after the well known beverage that SWMBO and friends drank and partly as it seemed an appropriate name for a sports cruiser....breeze....wind in your hair etc.

A friend came up with a suggestion for our current (recently acquired) boat which is 'Libre'.
SWMBO has switched to Bacardi & Coke or as they say in Cuba a Cuba Libre.

Libre also means 'free' or 'freedom' so having just finished in a very demanding job it seemed fitting with the prospect of more (boaty) free time.....hopefully!!

 

[Moody]

Previously quite well documented on here but it's Marmite - a Sealine SC 35, self explanatory really.

Neil

 

[epervier]

Sea Tryst,

on line dictionary gives Tryst as,

1.
an appointment to meet at a certain time and place, especially one made somewhat secretly by lovers.
2.
an appointed meeting.
3.
an appointed place of meeting.

So Sea Tryst is An appointed meeting at sea, too old for number 1

also she's part 1 registered so changing it could be a PIA