mocruising
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"Momentum Offal" Actually "Momentum of Fal" the name came with the boat, My wife and I are strict vegans!
What's in a name?.....your boat.
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little_roundtop
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One of my "hobbies" is studying the US civil war. Little Round Top is a hill which lay at the southern end of the Union defensive line at the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1863). On the second day of the battle a major assault was launched against Little Round Top which was then the very end of the Union line. The loss of that hill would almost certainly have resulted in the loss of the battle and, quite likely, the entire war. The successful defence of Little Round Top is one of the major events of the civil war, it earned one of the unit commanders there (Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain of the 20th Maine Volunteers) the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Edit: A close second was to call the boat Broadsword and the tender Danny Boy. Then we could reprise the scene from the movie "Where Eagles Dare" with Richard Burton speaking into the radio saying "Broadsword calling Danny Boy, Broadsword calling Danny Boy".....
Edit: A close second was to call the boat Broadsword and the tender Danny Boy. Then we could reprise the scene from the movie "Where Eagles Dare" with Richard Burton speaking into the radio saying "Broadsword calling Danny Boy, Broadsword calling Danny Boy".....
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status
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Akira - anglicised gaelic for anchor
but also a play on *******ised gaelic, Kira or properly Caora = sheep, hence A Sheep.
We were going to call her Flossy but I could not imagine myself saying it over the radio with a straight face.
p.s. Please substitute gentleman of unknow parentage for asterisks above!
but also a play on *******ised gaelic, Kira or properly Caora = sheep, hence A Sheep.
We were going to call her Flossy but I could not imagine myself saying it over the radio with a straight face.
p.s. Please substitute gentleman of unknow parentage for asterisks above!
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RupertW
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Rising Star
Partly to remind us of the number of times we'd seen a beautiful star rise over the horizon and got into a flap about it as we thought it was a ship.
Mostly though because Rising Star is the hospital ship in Battlestar Galactica and we are both massive fans of that and earned our yacht money from the NHS.
Partly to remind us of the number of times we'd seen a beautiful star rise over the horizon and got into a flap about it as we thought it was a ship.
Mostly though because Rising Star is the hospital ship in Battlestar Galactica and we are both massive fans of that and earned our yacht money from the NHS.
Lakesailor
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Mine should have had "for Mini" but that would have been sillyBut mine will have force x after it
WF36
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Yacht = FOR SAIL
RIB = NOT 4 SAIL
RIB = NOT 4 SAIL
Bobc
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I've never re-named any of my big boats, as I can't see the point.
However, there was an especially memorable naming session for my new 12ft skiff at Weston SC a few years ago (it's got a clearcoat carbon hull, and white decks with green spashes on it). After quite a few beers, chased down with a bottle of Sambuuuukakakaka, a vry pi**ed IainC proclaimed that it should be called...
Curry McSplurry.
...and that's what it's been called ever since!
However, there was an especially memorable naming session for my new 12ft skiff at Weston SC a few years ago (it's got a clearcoat carbon hull, and white decks with green spashes on it). After quite a few beers, chased down with a bottle of Sambuuuukakakaka, a vry pi**ed IainC proclaimed that it should be called...
Curry McSplurry.
...and that's what it's been called ever since!
Achillesheel
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My boat, an Achilles, was originally named "Chill Sea" (anag, geddit?!) but thankfully the owner before last renamed her "Blue". Although it does limit colour schemes somewhat!
We have had several conversations with marina offices when they ask what hull colour she has.....
And we have just named her tender "Bob", cos it does.
We have had several conversations with marina offices when they ask what hull colour she has.....
And we have just named her tender "Bob", cos it does.
Vern
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My Osprey, recently acquired came with the name; 'Elvira Madigan' and I am keeping it as such.
Just for information, Elvy currently resides at Langstone, but before that She raced about off Poole apparently. Although this name was given by the last owner.
She is fibreglass and the Osprey Association have said that she is c.1964/65.
Later this year, I and a good friend will be sailing her along the length of the Thames (Letchworth start). Just have to learn to sail her first...and fix a small hole, paint, get a road trailer, harness and create a folding mast too.
All to raise £120,000.
www.lengthofthames.info
Just for information, Elvy currently resides at Langstone, but before that She raced about off Poole apparently. Although this name was given by the last owner.
She is fibreglass and the Osprey Association have said that she is c.1964/65.
Later this year, I and a good friend will be sailing her along the length of the Thames (Letchworth start). Just have to learn to sail her first...and fix a small hole, paint, get a road trailer, harness and create a folding mast too.
All to raise £120,000.
www.lengthofthames.info
AntarcticPilot
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The name, "Capricious" came with her - it took me and my brother several weeks to make the connection that she is Moody!
I named my Dad's Halcyon 27; in those days, Part 1 registration was de-rigeur for a new yacht, and of course, that means a unique name. You had to supply three names on the form, I think, and they rejected the first two as being already in use, and settled on "Peristella" - a sort of combination of Greek and Latin meaning "Around a Star". I got a (mild) telling off from the guy who taught us Latin and Greek for mixing up the languages! It was the custom in the family that boats' names always began with "P"!
I named my Dad's Halcyon 27; in those days, Part 1 registration was de-rigeur for a new yacht, and of course, that means a unique name. You had to supply three names on the form, I think, and they rejected the first two as being already in use, and settled on "Peristella" - a sort of combination of Greek and Latin meaning "Around a Star". I got a (mild) telling off from the guy who taught us Latin and Greek for mixing up the languages! It was the custom in the family that boats' names always began with "P"!
Gordonmc
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The name "Farewell 2 Arms" came with the boat.
Former owner was an ex-soldier.
Who only had one arm.
Former owner was an ex-soldier.
Who only had one arm.
snowleopard
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Times crossword:
Large cat small weight (5)
Large cat small weight (5)
Corribee Boy
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I inherited the name 'Seattle Star' for my Corribee, which she's had since new. I wanted to call my little tender 'Prawn Star', but my children objected.
Habebty
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HABEBTY
Arabic (feminine) for "my sweetheart"
I have seen an Habebe which is the masculine! For my sweetheart, or so my Egyptian son in law tells me!
Arabic (feminine) for "my sweetheart"
I have seen an Habebe which is the masculine! For my sweetheart, or so my Egyptian son in law tells me!
Chrissie
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My boat was Mantilla when I bought her, the night the deal went through the children and I went to the pictures to see Pirates of the Caribean, she became Black Pearl, it seems such a short time ago, but the children are grown up now.
achwilan
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Achwilan
Ac'hwilan is the breton name of a kind of wren
Many years ago Ac'hwilan I had a roof with colour stripes, just as the bird...
Ac'hwilan is the breton name of a kind of wren
Many years ago Ac'hwilan I had a roof with colour stripes, just as the bird...
maxcampbell
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I built a "Secret" class boat from a kit, I called mine "Whisper", so she's Whisper the Secret. Others called their's "Mystery" and "Whisht" (scots for something like "keep quiet", amongst others.
We did also build a Shimmy class dinghy, which we called "Sheik".
We did also build a Shimmy class dinghy, which we called "Sheik".
Baggywrinkle
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Our boat is "McKelvie", the name of the cat owned by Irene McLachlan of Ardinamir Bay on the Scottish island of Luing. we visited her every summer holiday on my parents boats while I was growing up.
"YOU'RE GOING THE WRONG SIDE OF THE BUOY!!" she would yell at errant yachtsmen as the entrace to her anchorage was strewn with rocks.
I really liked her cat, so it's in memory of the pair of them - and I don't care how everyone else spells McKelvie, to me it is has always been so.
"YOU'RE GOING THE WRONG SIDE OF THE BUOY!!" she would yell at errant yachtsmen as the entrace to her anchorage was strewn with rocks.
I really liked her cat, so it's in memory of the pair of them - and I don't care how everyone else spells McKelvie, to me it is has always been so.
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DogWatch
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My son's racing dinghy was called Damp Flaps.
I thought it referred to the transom drain flaps, but apparently it had another meaning which teenagers understood.
was it a common design? as in, every soft **** has one?
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DogWatch
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My hard dinghy is named 'benny' as in 'benny the ball' and the inflatable is 'officer dibble'. Odd really as I would never have named my boat what she is, I have just resigned myself to it now.