What's yours called?

[Humblebee]

In another post Angus McDoon mentioned "George" which I think referred to his autopilot. Ours is called George too, has yours a name???

 

[pmagowan]

Ours was called Christopher Bungy as he was a bungy cord around a tiller. After some sterling work he was knighted and became Sir Christopher Bungy.

 

[veshengro]

I never had an Autopilot but I did have a Hydrovane wind steering gear on both my Ocean going boats. Both wind vanes, bright red in colour were named Eric in honour of the Viking voyager, Eric the Red.
It amuses me now to think that long after I've snuffed it, anyone reading one of my old logs books and knowing that I was always singlehanded, will wonder, at least for a time ,who the heck was Eric...

 

[rogerthebodger]

George was what aircraft autopilots wase to be called

I was also the name of an ICL 1900 series mainframe computer operation system was called

Long time ago I just call mine AP

 

[ProDave]

Ours is called George. In case nobody has twigged, named after the inflatable "auto pilot" called George in the movie Airplane.

 

[Daydream believer]

My wife's uncle was a dedicated radio operator. He was able to read 2 morse signals at the same time when he worked at Bletchley in WW2. He had contacts all over the world. His garden was full of aerials & one room of his house was stuffed with gear
His call sign was- George,2 Dog, Peter, Queen
So when I installed my Aries, to supplement my first electric autopilot, called George (Many autopilots were called George in the war I believe) We decided not to call it George 2, but "Uncle Claude" after his call sign. Uncle Claude has looked after me on many occasions when the Raymarine George has failed miserably.

 

[crewman]

We called it Otto(pilot)

 

[johnalison]

Sorry but just 'it'.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Ours is ‘Ray’, as George is a bit passe.

 

[Ray Purchase]

We had a Beetle called Ringo.

 

[capnsensible]

We met some people in the Cape Verdes with a hydrovane like ours. We chatted. Ours was a bit boring Robbie the rudder. There's was Carly, as in Simon, you're so vain.

 

[Gurrig]

Otto Von Helm

 

[DJE]

Knew one called Pontius.

 

[BobnLesley]

Out autopilots were all called Arthur, named for an early sailing instructor who taught us the advantages of sailing in a relaxed/low effort manner: "Nothing to be gained in arriving a half hour earlier if it leaves you so tired you need two hour's sleep to recover on arrival."
Our wind vane was named 'The Lizard' because it was a Monitor.

 

[Goldie]

Previous boat was ‘Otto’, the current boat (hydraulic ram) is ‘Moaning Myrtle’.

Wind vanes we’ve had ‘Maggie’ (‘cos the lady was not for turning), ‘’Pubes’ (was an Aries - I’ll leave the rest to you…) and Scarlett (as in ‘Gone with the wind’ a red Hydrovane).

 

[LiftyK]

Named by my son many years ago. Daddy’s big telephone.

It’s a tiller autopilot ST1000 I can see why he referred to it this way and the name has stuck .

 

[Gustywinds]

Hadn’t really thought about it but I think the new one will be dubbed “Marvin”.

 

[Mister E]

You useless price of ££££

 

[Corribee Boy]

Sinbad the Simrad.

 

[jbweston]

On my previous boat it was Keira. After Keira Knightley who proved in Pirates of the Caribbean what a desirable crew member she could be.

On my new boat it hasn't got a name yet. Like the upper classes, I think it's important to get to know a baby before giving it a name based on its character.