Why do you call your boat...

Fairwinds

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We dreamed about getting a boat for years (well, mostly I did I guess, the other half was more practical but well into it once it happened).

I was sure we would call the boat 'Clear Spot' or 'Curved Air' - both early musical influences. When we eventually bought Fairwinds I thought the name was a bit corny but not bad enough to change immediately, so we kept it. Since then we have not seen another Fairwinds anywhere on our travels . . . I think it is such an obvious name that most have eschewed it.

After the first season we never discussed changing the name again.


- W
 
When we bought "Foinaven" years ago, we thought it was a lovely name and were reluctant to give it away with the boat when we sold.
Then we bought "Colymbus", a big green boat that seemed to fit the red-throated diver description until the colymbiforms were discontinued as an ornithilogical group.
When we bought our final "this'll see us oot" motor sailor, it had to be "Duntakkin" or "Thistle Dubh" but we settled for "Sahona" as a place of pleasant memories, easy to spell and identify over the air, and (almost) unique on the listings.

http://www.itu.int/cgi-bin/htsh/mars/ship_search.sh

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When we bought our boat we wanted to transfer 'our' name from our previous boat, which is now up for sale again, she was called Out to Play, which just about says it all and was the only one registered with that name.

Alas the new owner wanted the name, so we chose Galadriel, queen of the elves in Lothlorien (Lord of the Rings). Not so much because Galadriel is a fine lady, which of course she is, but more that we are away with the fairies most of the time!
 
Great name - mundane story

Amulet - I regard it as a near perfect boat name.

It would be nice to claim inspiration.

Getting close to launch we had no idea what to call her.

We did, however, have to decide what colour to paint her. The blue we picked out was called Amulet by the paint manufacturer. I love it, and people routinely tell me it's a great boat name. I claim all the credit!

That was 1964, but she's still the same colour.


See:

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~cameron/Sailing.html

for the Amulet story
 
Forgot to say - always choose a name which duplicates no letters. You can then buy one set of alphabetic stencils to paint names on lifebelts and other gear.
 
Sinu-k-Tain => "Daughter of the wind"

Is the name given to a tiny humming bird in Tiera-del-Fuego by the extinct Ona Indian tribe – said to be the result of a love affair between an albatross and a whale……
 
Full Circle as we first met in 72, went our separate ways, but got together again and married 2 years ago.
Our previous boat was called Second Chance for much the same reason.

I expect if we ever bought another boat it would be called Darby & Joan.
 
Previous boat was called Slow Boat From China because she was built in Guandong.When I sold her I couldn't keep the name for my new to me boat so named her Slow Boat.Neither of the boats is slow,very much the opposite.
 
Tiffany, because being an old Audrey Hepburn fan I love "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and there's nothing better than a bacon and egg banjo when you wake up on board :D
 
Evadne was given her name by the Southampton doctor who first owned her in 1963. Being part 1 registered I was too poor to change the name when I bought her 20 years later.

After a while it grew on me, though I always thought it sounded like a 1980's drag artiste, until a more erudite friend told me she was a water nymph in the Greek pantheon.
 
Billjratt said:
When we bought "Foinaven" years ago, we thought it was a lovely name and were reluctant to give it away with the boat when we sold.
Then we bought "Colymbus", a big green boat that seemed to fit the red-throated diver description until the colymbiforms were discontinued as an ornithilogical group.
When we bought our final "this'll see us oot" motor sailor, it had to be "Duntakkin" or "Thistle Dubh" but we settled for "Sahona" as a place of pleasant memories, easy to spell and identify over the air, and (almost) unique on the listings.

http://www.itu.int/cgi-bin/htsh/mars/ship_search.sh

To get some ideas and see how many you're sharing with...........
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Shame to see about 20 Paragons, and 12 Tulas. Only one Dave!

R
 
We're the only British Milestone. She had that name when we bought her - initially we thought about changing it, but then realised that we were nuts, as it's a perfect name for us. Milestone is not only our first boat, but she is our first home together; a true milestone.

We often call her Miley for short - a lovely nickname, very feminine.

Her original owner had called her Millstone, which is an awful name for a boat! Luckily the previous owner changed it to Milestone when he came to register her Part 1 and Millstone was already taken (!).
 
snooks said:
Pixie, Because I take Pics on the sea ;)

It's also a nice fun name, and we thought it was better than either of her previous names: Blue Baker and Dorset Dodger
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Gosh Mr Snooks! I once did a race to the Freisan Islands on Blue Baker. What a sweet little thing she was. That must have been about 12 years ago.
 
Boat names

I named my first boat 'Funadama'.
Working for a Japanese company at the time,their house magazine described the boats and engines of Japanese fishermen, including the story that all these boats had a shrine at the foot of the mast. Daily prayers and offerings were made to the shrine so that the spirit living in the shrine looked after the boat and its crew. The Japanese word for that sea spirit was 'funadama'.
When in dire conditions, and the spirit could not save the boat, it would sound gongs and whistles to warn the crew to abandon ship.

My current boat is 'Masquerade' as she is not really an 'old' gaffer, being more a vintage fake. My wife thinks we named the boat after one she saw in some morbid film on tv.:)
 
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