What's Her Name?

[Rick486]

Our Hunter 44DS is Maxine, after our beloved miniature Dachshund who we lost back in the day. Our dinghy is named Wink after another Dachsy, another day. Our Whaler is called Tashmoo, after our home in Maine.
Great thread Simon.
Rick

 

[nat55]

Which bathroom does she use?

She isn't fussy...... they all have seats.....

 

[RussC]

Our M25 is Silent Running, from the old si-fi movie. and our little V17 is Aye Pod,..... cause I like the name .

 

[Alansails]

We Named her "ANAM CARA"
Which is Gaelic for Soul Friend....

 

[JimInPB]

(we name all the big boats in Sea Scouts after Star Trek ships, so I decided to keep tradition rolling).

The only two Sea Scout boats I know are a pair of J-24's named Scout's Honor & Scout's Pride. Did those guys not get the message bout the Start Trek names? Or is a J-24 not considered a big boat?

 

[TomY]

When we bought her she was a him, ABU (meaning "father of" in Arabic), well that just wouldn't do...we re-named and re-gendered her to MAIA, which is why I suspect we have had issues with the tranny.

MAIA in mythology is one of the Pleiades....not to mention that she has quite a nice figure.....

MAIA I love that name, Nat. You take your boats seriously.

We changed the name of our boat (all our boats). People often ask why the name? "Was it a gift?",...no...

Xmas denotes a special, secular, event or for us. It has connections to our marriage, family, home, love. It is a strong word, for a well loved boat.

 

[Charlie Jones s/v Tehani]

Tehani is Polynesian- means "Caress" I suspect it should be spelled Te' Hani, but she was built in 1961 and that was how it was on her stern when I got the boat. Figured she'd had the name for years, silly to change

My dinghy is called "Pat"

 

[Sailm8]

Ours is named English Rose. This was the name chosen by the original owner and Englishman and a very fine gentleman who was dying from cancer. Just couldn't bear to change the name. The dinghy we named Rose Bud.

 

[Newport Bob]

My first boat, a gray hull, white deck Mirage 24, was named Shadowfax- the silver grey horse that ran faster than the wind
After damage from another boat that bounced thru the mooring area during a storm she was changed to a Pierson blue hull color and christened Mermaid.
This started the tradition- another Mermaid cal2-29 and my email - nptmerman (live in Newport, Ri)
AND then after a 2nd marriage-this time to a competitive sailor - we combined the names of our two previous boats (after selling to buy) on a Catalina 36. From her Blue Moon and my Mermaid to ... Lunea - Lun from hers and Ea from mine ( Ea = Babylon for Mermaid).
And on to the current vessel Sirene, = Mermaid in French ... but of course since its French boat.

 

[Newport Bob]

Also, many years ago I sailed on a boat named Andiamo "I'm going". He named the dinghy "I'm Coming"

 

[Fred Villiard]

KARFRE, wife name Karen and mine is Fred

 

[williamtl]

Named my boat after my Mom Ora Lea. I really liked the tribute until the first time I used it on the VHF.

 

[agprice22]

Firefly. She came with no name. We wanted to describe speed, lightness, and agility.

 

[WayneH]

Well, I'm on my third boat. The first was Mni Ole, 16 foot AMF Sunbird. Mni Ole is Sioux for Seeker of Water. My second was Unole! which means Wind! in Sioux. I bought her from a good friend and changed her name because I didn't want to take everything from him. When I traded the boat back to him for a lot of interior work on my latest boat, he promptly changed the name back. The latest boat is named Impetuous and she is documented so we didn't want the hassle of changing the name with the Coast Guard.

 

[Terry Cox]

Belle-Vie was named by the PO and we liked it, so it stayed. Translates from French/Canadian into, "The Good Life".

 

[Calif. Ted]

I once bought a boat in San Francisco named "OM" with the corresponding Sanskrit symbol, just to add to the name surrealism the original owner was a John Paul Jones.

 

[NYSail]

We renamed our new boat Souleil as a play on words on Soleil adding the Soul as that is what it is for me and my wife. Soleil is defined in French-The sun
also

A very velupsious girl and pretty.

So overall a fitting name for our Souleil!

 

[JimInPB]

Also, many years ago I sailed on a boat named Andiamo "I'm going". He named the dinghy "I'm Coming"

I'm pretty sure that Andiamo is Italian for We go. I think that "I'm going" is Sto andando.

 

[Captmayhem]

O'day 23 named "no hurry" always get a kick out of that name as we tow her
Thought of changing the name but really can't come up with anything fitting.
As an aside, that Alden looks stunning!

 

[HMT2]

My boat was originally named Drum, I'm a Methodist minister so we changed her name to Sanctuary so that when I was out sailing and folks called the church looking for me the person could say, "Sorry, he's not available...he's in the Sanctuary." (Can I get a rimshot please?)