Worst boat names

[Champagne Murphy]

Clabbydoo in Ramsgate harbour. The mind boggles

 

[Rogerkynaston]

Horrible Names

On our honeymoon we chartered in the Virgin Islands and the boat was called Avast Behind. I never once used the radio.

More recently we stopped in Mazagon and came across Crapula III. I speak reasonable spanish but that has no meaning (afaict) in Spanish

 

[SailorBill]

The list goes on! Some crackers (clangers?) here. Why oh why do some people name their boats with such bad taste/horrible/embarrassing/etc names? Beats me. Each to their own!

 

[Victoria Sponge]

The two worst I've seen are "Moist Lady" and "Far Q". Do these people ever think what their boat name sounds like over the radio?

 

[Blueboatman]

Ok one more.
In the 1970s in my innocent yooth I couldnt understand why all the fuss at an IOW fishing boat called MuffDiver. Eventually the owner added a very small s in front so from close up at least, sMuffDiver was a reputable working boat.

 

[Penton Hooker]

'Avast Behind', appealing!! Much more attractive than a narrow gutted one!!

I don't object to double meanings, so long as they are reasonably clever. I had a very good friend who kept his boat at Penton Hook marina on the Thames. He was also an obsessional angler, thus he chose the name Penton Hooker. It amused me then, it does now, despite continually having to explain to folk why a Broads boat should be so named!

'Legs Akimbo', another Broads based boat albeit London registered, has to be one of the all time most tasteless names that I have ever come across.

Does seem that tasteless names tend to be a motor boat thing.

 

[Caladh]

Seen in Spain a few years ago "Kevin" - a small mobo.......

 

[PCUK]

Doing up an old Reinell. Thinking of calling it Hugh!

 

[Wakatere]

And it's a pity, 'cos the red paint on the hull is faded and looks awful (not that Wakatere's spotless)

There's a fishing boat near Sultan Jetty called Castanet - I can't decide whether it's clever or awfully corny, but at least it's apt.

 

[chinita]

SIKASFUK

on a big RiB in Guernsey.

 

[MissFitz]

More recently we stopped in Mazagon and came across Crapula III. I speak reasonable spanish but that has no meaning (afaict) in Spanish

Crapula is Latin for hangover - a fellow classics student told me he found it easy to remember because he always had appalling crapulas with a hangover.

 

[alahol2]

When the previous owners of a friends boat called it 'Candida', they obviously didn't have google nor a medicinal bent. The current owner calls his tender 'Thrush'.

 

[Penton Hooker]

Coincidentally there are two such named boats on The Broads. One belongs to a doctor, probably with a perverse sense of humour, the other to a gentleman who apparently linked his two daughter's names.

However, even Royalty has been known to have a tussle with Candida, click on:
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/...ls.aspx?pos=2&intObjectID=5440631&sid=&page=6

 

[claymore]

Wind of Gare

Known locally as fairt of rhu.

 

[Bassplayer]

I generally find any boat name beginning with 'Lady' is a recipe involving pillocks who'd be better off on a gin palace mobo...

Hmmm......

Lady Fiona is named after my wife who died 3 years ago. It is also registered in Rye as that was her favourite place. And it has a Manx ensign as that is where we were married.....

and your problem is..????..

 

[Twister_Ken]

Did a Fastnet on big Swan called Yellowdrama. Never made any sense to me. Neither did its name.

 

[alan_d]

When the previous owners of a friends boat called it 'Candida', they obviously didn't have google nor a medicinal bent. The current owner calls his tender 'Thrush'.

Candida is the latin for "dazzling white" and was formerly a reasonably common girl's name. Its popularity does seem to have declined in recent decades, however.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Candida is the latin for "dazzling white" and was formerly a reasonably common girl's name. Its popularity does seem to have declined in recent decades, however.

Not according to the British Medical Journal.

 

[Penton Hooker]

Candida is the latin for "dazzling white" and was formerly a reasonably common girl's name. Its popularity does seem to have declined in recent decades, however.

I suppose it would be quite a good name in a handicap class of racing boat, for the scratch boat!

 

[capnsensible]

There is a Bavaria (!) moored in Sotogrande that rejoices in the name 'Passing Wind'.