We are buying a new boat and we just found out it has no name. Can anyone give us any ideas for a name for it? Thanks...
2007-04-02 08:09:54 · 40 answers · asked by JoJi 4 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Boats & Boating
We named ours with a name that matched the intended use and to describe it. Ours is a speedboat so we chose "spirit" named after the horse in the film - fast, adventourous etc
Why not follow the same sort of logic.
Don't use a loved ones name, or pets name etc as they say that if anything happened to the boat it would bring bad luck to the person it was named after!!
2007-04-04 09:27:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw a great one while cruising my little boat on the Broads last season, "Sailbad The Sinner"!
But a really good idea I read some weeks back on here, with just the same sort of question, was to look at the (believe it or not) racing pages! Some kinky names!
The rule, if restoring a vessel, is that if you restore the boat, then you restore her name. (Just as you restore her door handles, light fittings, deck fittings, etc. - anything else is 'rebuilding' and is, just, different!) So try to find out what that was. Accepted, it doesn't sound like you are restoring a boat, though. Just threw that in to earn my best answer!!!
2007-04-03 11:25:48 · answer #2 · answered by Girly Brains 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Traditionally boats have female names, could be named after, wife, daughter, or a combination of mothers names, but thats usually sailboats...The powerboats tend to play by a different set of rules, depending on style of boat, lived in boating communities all my life and the original names are the best with special meaning behind them...I know a lady who lives on Sailboat yr around..renamed it "Aillaih"..asked what it meant An Independent Lady Living Aboard In Harmony....she did it shortly after her divorce....made sense
2007-04-02 08:34:46 · answer #3 · answered by BrownPuPPy_eyes 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Please choose the name with great care as you need give it out when calling the Coast Guard and it sounds a bit off saying "this is the yacht 'Lucky' and we have capsized". i once saw a boat in the British Virgin Islands called 'Passing Wind' and whilst i am no prude I did not think it funny. Combine your names - for example if you are Marion and he is Don - then call it Maridon. Or go back to the Roman and Greek Gods
2007-04-02 09:40:03 · answer #4 · answered by Professor 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mr Boat
2007-04-02 08:12:18 · answer #5 · answered by Peanut butter Jelly Time!!!! 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Take the boat for a run first, and maybe a name will suggest itself.
2007-04-02 08:56:40 · answer #6 · answered by Doug G 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
wait,a name will come to you.don't use a play on words name like most people, like [ready or knot], a boats name should be elegant and feminine.my boats original name was [chapter 11] I renamed it Maggie 2
2007-04-02 10:51:00 · answer #7 · answered by easy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perpetrating Ahoy!
derived from perpetrate.
Main Entry: per·pe·trate
Pronunciation: 'p&r-p&-"trAt
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -trat·ed; -trat·ing
Etymology: Latin perpetratus, past participle of perpetrare, from per- through + patrare to accomplish, from pater father -- more at FATHER
1 : to bring about or carry out
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Avast Ye Skallywag!
2007-04-02 08:59:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Titanic, Britannic, Lusitania, Empress of Ireland, Andria Doria, Ehime Maru, Edmund Fitzgerald.
Or, if you don't want to name it after a ship that sank, how about Misty Rale, or Mystic Mile (which I both made up). Or how about reefer?
2007-04-02 09:45:32 · answer #9 · answered by Dan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Call it the Bounty ,thats what my flat is called an im Captain William Blygh played by Trevor Howard
2007-04-02 08:15:48 · answer #10 · answered by paul t 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋