CLIPPER Posted September 16, 2004 Report Share Posted September 16, 2004 Obtaining a boat gives one the pleasant problem of naming her . 8) What did you name your boat and why :?: I named mine after my granddaughter. [attachment over 4 years old deleted by admin] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Williamson Posted September 16, 2004 Report Share Posted September 16, 2004 Well, I finally named my weekender. I am naming her "Violet's Bloom" When I was 8 years old my Mother (Violet) died of cancer. I grew up believing that If I wanted something bad enough, I would have to make it happen. I wanted to learn to sail, and I've wanted to build a boat for several years so..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kudzu Posted September 16, 2004 Report Share Posted September 16, 2004 I name my Cris Craft "Makin' Waves". I had a buddy who was a pilot at the time. When you asked him had been doing he would reply he had been boring holes in the sky. So when someone asked me what I had been up to I could reply "Makin' Waves" Still thinking on a name for my CS-20 I am planning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kydocfrog Posted September 16, 2004 Report Share Posted September 16, 2004 Seems to me there's two good ways to name a boat. One is you can pick something that reflects the sheer delight of "being a boat." This is the kind of name that you can imagine your boat announcing proudly or happily to all the other boats "Hi gang, my name is ..." The other, like Jan has, is you name it to honor or recall a person or personal passage that lies at the core of your own story. Charlie Girl II is named for my wife, as was the original Charlie Girl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowtail Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 They say that when naming a kid, you should do a doorstep test - you stand on your back doorstep, yell the name as loud as you can, and see how foolish you feel. I suspect you need to do something similar with a boat. I've got my half built 14 ft Yellowtail sitting in the shed, un-named. But then again, I'm not working on her at the moment (got a dink to finish), so I'm guessing that a name will come once I start. My little 8 footer is called Redback. The design is Welsford's 'Tender Behind', which he admits was a play on words. I decided to take the play a bit further - there's a famous Aussie song about a man who went to the dunny one night, and was bitten on the bum by a Redback (poisonous spider). The two sort of went together nicely. Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P Doug (WA) Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 I have no imagination so my first boat will be named after my wife the "Patti Rae". There is also a gain from this. When I told her what I was going to name it she quite making cracks about me building a boat. I'm not totally stupid! :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 P Doug I did much the same - VAZTR is named after the first initial of my wife, me and our three children, now none of them have an excuse not to sail in her!! :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussMartin Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 My Weekender is going to be the Ruth Paxmore, for a character in James Michener's Chesapeake: She was the wife of the Quaker carpenter who didn't know how to build boats but learned by doing it. For me, that seems somehow appropriate. My inspiration for this goes back to late 1989, when I was doing work for a client that required me to spend several days in Newport News, VA. After visiting Colonial Williamsburg, the rest of my spare time was spent prowling marinas. I ran across a drop-dead beautiful 32-foot restored skipjack (refitted as a pleasure boat) named the Rosalind J. Steed from the same book. It was for sale--$12,000--and I had the money but didn't want to solve the problem of getting her trucked overland to Missouri. I've kicked myself from time to time ever since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Pennington Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 I named my white water dory after I took her down the river for the first time, OOPS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russ Sylvester Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 I named the weekender 'Opus' as it was my first work. When I get around to building another it will be 'Opus II' and so on. The O'Day I refused to give the Opus name as I didn't build it. I did have some fun in naming it 'Second Star'. In the Disney movie 'Peter Pan' at the end there's a shot of Peter sailing the 'Jolley Roger' (Hook's ship) off into the clouds towards the second star to the right and on 'til morning. I always thought that was cool. Besides SWMBO says that I will never grow up. I think she meant that in a good way(?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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