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How did you name your boat?

How did you name your boat? I am always curious about how people name their boat and if there is a story behind it. After seeing all of the names on this site, I am looking forward to hearing the stories...So, If you have a boat how did you come up with the name?

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Permalink Reply by Andrea on August 29, 2008 at 2:20pm
Very Clever!

Reggie said:
we named it for the method of acquisition: press "Submit" on Ebay! Besides, as a person who loves puns, "Submit" can heve many meanings
Reggie
Permalink Reply by Alain Brauckmann on September 1, 2008 at 1:31pm
My actual Elan 333 is the Rdeci Lev and means red lion, like our flag is the red lion an in Slovenian language is Rdeci Lev

The next will be rds like my name in many German Sailing Forums

Rds means : Résidence du soleil (The sun residence)
Permalink Reply by Mary F on September 7, 2008 at 3:44pm
Our boat is Sea Fox. Our last name is Foxworthy so we wanted something with "fox" in it. My younger stepson is a submariner so it is also a tribute to a highly decorated submarine named Sea Fox. Also the beautiful thresher shark is alopias vulipinas - sea fox.

I often wonder about some boat names including the one we saw at So. Dartmouth, MA called "Big Bottom Girls"
Permalink Reply by Bill on September 7, 2008 at 8:16pm
I bought my 26 mac from the family of the original owner. he had passed away. i met him a few times. He named it "KISSIN BANDIT" after the lady that ran out on baseball fields and kissed players. I kept the name.
Permalink Reply by Andrea on September 14, 2008 at 8:09am
With such history, you can't change a name like that ! :-) So now, do you swim to other boats at anchorages and kiss the ladies? lol-just kidding.

I hadn't heard of this before but found this link on wikipedia about it. Thanks for sharing!

Kissin Bandit
Permalink Reply by Andrea on September 14, 2008 at 7:58am
That will certainly be fitting, the sun residence. Wait you're already thinking of your next boat name, wow!

rds said:
My actual Elan 333 is the Rdeci Lev and means red lion, like our flag is the red lion an in Slovenian language is Rdeci Lev

The next will be rds like my name in many German Sailing Forums

Rds means : Résidence du soleil (The sun residence)
Permalink Reply by Steve on September 15, 2008 at 3:42pm
I have always liked the idea of once the lines are cast off, you are escaping to your own world.

I'm naming my Cape Dory 25 (with the required ritual of course) "Elabor" which is latin for 'escape' or 'to slip away'....
Permalink Reply by Andrea on October 4, 2008 at 12:56pm
I feel the same way anytime I am out sailing. The name says it all! Great choice-
Permalink Reply by John Shasteen on September 22, 2008 at 11:32am
Back in the 60's, at my mom's beheist, my dad named his black-hulled, Hinckley B40 "Lola." It came from a line in the musical Damn Yankees, "Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets". She said it fit the love and $$$ my dad showered on that damn boat:
Permalink Reply by Andrea on October 4, 2008 at 12:58pm
Ha ha-There is always a good story behind the naming of a boat. Thanks for sharing, I needed a good laugh today.
Permalink Reply by Reggie on September 22, 2008 at 7:42pm
what is the button you push on Ebay in early February in the frozen north on a Friday evening after a long week and two glasses of wine when the auction is about to end on a beautiful version of a perfect next sailboat?
Permalink Reply by Franc on September 22, 2008 at 9:14pm
ESCAPE!

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