Boat names

[Kudzu]

I love reading everyone input. This is some interesting reading.

Not being a wordsmith by any stretch of the imagination I search dictionaries or now the Internet dictionaries. I came up with a name for my woodworking shop/business years ago. Toyed with it as a boat name and have not ruled it out.

Excelsior. Because of it's meaning, it makes me think of using my favorite hands tool(s). :mrgreen:

[Barry Pyeatt]

A bunch of boats ago, I had a salvageable boat that I picked up for $100. My daughter helped me get it home and promptly named it the "Leaki-Tiki). It stuck and after we got it fixed up and sold it; the new owners loved the name and it is still the "Leaki-Tiki.

[Greg Luckett]

Barry, that is a pretty good name, Leaki-Tiki. How old was your daughter then?

[Knut]

Hi (I did threaten to come back on the forum once and a while!).

As you may remember my Weekender got the name FreeAtLast. The story is that when I came to Miami in Jan 2000 I did so partly because I needed new surroundings and challenges to occupy my mind. I walked out of 26 years of marriage for reasons that don't belong here. One element of the boat name plays on this background. It also so happened around the time of my wrestling with the boat's name, that I got my divorce papers in the mail and I told my Brasilian partner that I was Free At Last.

Another important element was that I always feel a freedom being on the water in a sailboat that can only be compared with mountain climbing or fishing trout far away from urban life. So the logical boat name suddenly landed in my head and stuck!

Now lately I have been struggling with a name for my 20' Balboa (I am finally ready for launch and therefore I also need a name). A new spin of all the wheels to find something pleasant and with meaning. This time I got good help from my Partner, who suggested FreeAgain A perfect fit and some double meanings embedded again so the choice has been made.

(I am kind of stuck with this forum after my Weekender building and because of all the interesting postings that can be found. I hope nobody minds an "associated" plastic-skipper sneeking in a posting at intervals. I am now ready to go messing-about in the Florida Keyes, so it may take some time until the next posting)

Good building and boating to everybody!!

[Barry Pyeatt]

Kudzo,

I think she must have been about 14 or 15. She was greatly inconvenienced by the experience and it kinda turned her off to boating for a few years. Seems she had to bail a lot while the boat was under tow. It was an appropriate name at the time. :roll:

[Marshall]

I am having a difficult sell for my new Weekender's name. Despite numerous protests from my wife and my mother-in-law, My Weekender is going to be named BREAKING WIND. Expalning that the wind drives my boat and waves are often called breakers. Granted the other meaning of Breaking Wind is the double meaning of why I chose this name.

It should be in the water by Fathers Day ! Can't wait to sail on the St Croix river in BREAKING WIND !

[Greg Luckett]

Can one hope that there will not be a bad aroma in her wake?

[Mark Hughes]

I, like Greg, named my Vacationer after my paternal grandmother, who passed away nearly a decade ago. She was always known as Adelaide, and it wasn't until my late teens that I discovered her actual first name was Regina. I have liked that name combination ever since, so the Regina Adelaide it is. If she were here to see it, she would make a bunch of bluster about using her name so, but inside she would be tickled pink, I'm sure.

[Kudzu]

Despite numerous protests from my wife and my mother-in-law' date=' My Weekender is going to be named BREAKING WIND. [/quote']

I wasn't going to mention this boat name but what the heck. Local yard used to have an old Cruiser mounted 20+ feet in the air as a sign on the highway. One day when I was in the yard I was admiring the cruiser from behind when I noticed the name.

Pissuponu II

[tdrown]

If you know my last name' date=' you can see the reason for these names.

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I think playing with my last name would be strictly out of the question for boat names .

-Tyler S. Drown

[Steve Day]

Good point, Tyler.

I think you are correct.

Perhaps there is something you can do with Tyler.

Steve

[Steve Downs]

I named my weekender after a model of a pirate ship I put together as a child. I've always wanted my own pirate ship, something I could actually sail so when I saw the article about the Weekender in Popular Science years ago I could see the potential to make a real traditional looking boat. It's taken a long time to get started but it's underway at last and I'm having a good time with it.

[Capn Trey]

Nokoni comes from a Native American Word which means Wanderer.

[rolandblais]

I call my weekender "Maiden Nevada" because I think it's punny.

This is a decent book of boat names (clickable):

Found this there too:

300,000 names on a cd-rom. Hoo-Ha!

Peace,

Roland

[Russ Sylvester]

Named mine 'Opus I' since it is the first boat I ever built (but not my last). Also because I collect Opus One wine from california. No, it had absolutely nothing to do with any penguin. Thought about calling it 'Thorn' after SWMBO said that building this boat was such a pain with all the sawdust. The other choice was 'Jessica E' for my daughter but I figured I would save that one for a much larger boat.

A long time ago someone came up with 'Unsinkable II' which I always liked. 'Collapso' was the another one I liked.

[John Kinnane]

Saw a yacht with the name 'Wylya' on Pittwater near Sydney a few years back, have a guess what the tender was called !!!!

[Greg Luckett]

Guess I am too dense :? What was the tender's name?

[Charlie Jones]

Don't know how I missed this thread earlier, but here's our boat names.

Our 21 foot Lindsey sloop was in my barn in east Texas for 15 years until I met Laura and she decided she really loved sailing. We treked up there and got her, brought her to our place here in south Texas and rebuilt her totally. We had been pondering names for quite some time when one day Laura called me to come look at something- she had penciled the name Necessity on the transom. I asked her why that name and she said -"because it is" So that's "NECESSITY"

I built a B and B yachts Minipaw dinghy for use with Necessity, and of course it had to be named "INVENTION" since NECESSITY was the mother ship.

I built an 18 foot CLC Sharpie for Harmony Boatworks which we loaded into a truck and hauled to Chicago for display, along with others, in Strictly Sail. The boat didn't sell and after some negotiations with other principals, we decided to take her back for ourselves. She had her maiden voyage up there though, sailing in the Chicago area. We decided that it would be neat to meet the boat somewhere half way, so the guy who had it hauled her to Kentucky Lake where we met him. The boat was sailed for the second time on Kentucky Lake. We then trailered her down to Mississippi to visit a friend on our way home and sailed along with he and his wife in their catboat, on the Escatapaw River in Mississippi for the boat's third sail.

We then trailered on home and the next week or so, sailed her on Matagorda Bay here in Texas.

So- the boat has been across country (north to south) twice, through many states and her first four sails were in four different bodies of water, in four different states. What other name could we possibly choose but "TRAVELER"

Oh- and Laura, after having broken in to sailing on first a Hobie 14 and then a Prindle 18, acquired a Sunfish. Sailed the boat a couple of times and dubbed it "ESSIE". From escargot, or sloowwwww

[Mike Donlin]

I'm with Greg, I can't figure out the tender's name either.

I named my weekender "Steel Away". I have been building steel buildings and steel grain bins for 30 years, a welder for about that long, and so when it came time to build a wooden boat the name seemed like a good fit, since there isn't much steel on these boats.

This is a neat thread, I like to read about how all the names came to be.

[John Kinnane]

The dingy's name was 'Down There'. I had a Bertram once called 'Footloose' and the tender of course was 'Fancy Free'.