The name game

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Jon

The Mighty Osprey

My Capri 16.5 was christened "Osprey" by its original family. They had originally bought the boat in Colorado where, they said, "Ospreys are very rare." They moved to Florida and , lo and behold, there's an osprey on every phone pole and light post! I was originally going to rename the boat but the name has stuck over time. The osprey is a beautiful bird and they often fly over as I sail so I guess my luck would probably be better if I keep the name.
 

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Paul Zetlmaier

My brother's boat

My brother bought a big old stink pot and joined the Portland Yacht Club. They decided to ask for suggestions since the boat was unnamed. Mine was "The Filthy Whore" it has a nice ring to it and that's what he'll be calling it in a year or so anyway. Still waiting for an invitation to ride!!
 
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R Burns

Named by chatty observers

EVERY TIME I LAUNCHED HER PEOPLE OBSERVED: MY, SHE CERTAINLY STANDS PROUDLY, OR SIMILAR, MEANING SHE WAS SHOWY FOR SUCH A SMALL BOAT. HER TALL RIG, AND BRIGHT TEAK TRIM CAUSED THE RESPONSE. NAMED HER: PANACHE
 
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Ros

DIVERSION

We were thinking of buying a boat. We needed somewhere to relax after a hard week of work. When my husband told his mother of our plan and that we thought we had found a boat (Hunter 31). She said "that's wonderful you need a diversion." That was its name! We bought the boat and kept the name. It has been our sanctuary and preserved our sanity. On the transom we can see the outline of a former name, "Lucky Duck."
 
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Alo Eckhart

Gallivant

My goal was, and still is, to cruise as much of the Great Lakes as possible before time and age made it impossible. I found Gallivant in the dictionary. Generally it means to wander aimlessly seeking pleasure.
 
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Stephen Digilio

SEASPAN & Excalibur

I purchased my 1990 C-30 in February 2001. It had just gone through a complete restoration so it was conveniently with out a name. My last boat was a C-25 with a swing keel. I named it Excalibur for King Arthur's singing sword because the keel cable litterly sang at maximum hull speed. That name was not appropriate for the C-30 with a wing keel so we started thinking about a name. If you remember the 2000 Presidential election was not settled until January. I came home from work every day and watched C-Span every night until "W" was declared the winner. One night while we were out driving my daughter Alexandra suggested that we name the boat what I thought was C-Span only to have her explain that she meant S-E-A-S-P-A-N. She was thinking SEA for sea and SPAN for the first letters of our names Steve, Paula, Alexandra & Nicole. The more we thought about it the more we liked it so it's SEASPAN. I had never heard of the Canadian marine company by the same name, but all the better. I've been meaning to write or e-mail them to see if I can get some logo hats, etc. That's the story on SEASPAN and Excalibur.
 
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Brad

Wild Child

Bought into a 1985 H25.5 in 1999, with the original owner (a good friend of mine,)and a friend of his wife's. He had never named the boat - said it was "kind of a thing." In 2001, he took off for California and the remaining partner and I bought him out. Two things were evident: we thought an unnamed boat was a silly kind of a thing, and we got sucked into the racing scene faster than you can say "Tacking." Picking a name with two heads in it can be a challenge, but as we raced we realized we had a relatively small, slow boat (240 PHRF). Most of the boats around us are 30 to 40 footers. This did not stop us from charging the boat end of a starting line yelling "leeward!," or flying into a mark yelling "No Room!" We got ourselves plenty of champagne and a few friends, went through a proper ceremony, and poured the stuff all over the place...North, South, East, West, our glasses, our heads... "Wild Child" just seemed to fit our small size, and our slightly brazen approach out there among the giants.
 
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Mario A. Molano

Rusty Nail

Named after a favorite drink, Rusty Nail, just sounded as good as it tasted. Over 15 years ago a friend and I agreed that who ever bought a sail boat first would name it Rusty Nail..He wishes it had been him.
 
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Tom Burns

Meri Lintu

In spite of my Scots/Irish last name my heritage is Finnish. In honor of that heritage, I collaborated with my Mother who suggested the name "Meri Lintu" (Sea Bird). The name is also appropriate because I am a retired Naval Aviator (of the Marine Corps persuasion) which meant, of course, that I spent many years flying aircraft from ships at sea.
 
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Dick Bringe

Racing with the moon

One of my favorite times to sail, providing there is wind, is on a bright moonlight night. Therefore I call my Daysailer "Moon Shadow". It's especially nice if the shadow cast is abeam and I can race with it.
 
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George Istok

Like a fine cheese

I bought a 1963 Columbia Challenger nearly six years ago now. She was named "The Great Laker" and I left that name on for the rest of the season. I wanted a name that fit a little better, and the PO's talked about useing that name for their new boat, so when she was pulled for the winter, I de-named her. I did make a proper contribution to what ever gods maybe in the form of a metal plate wiht the old name to bury in the water and some damn fine tequila to follow. In fact, the tequila inspired the new name. She was named, again with proper cerimony, Añejo, a Mexican word that means aged. Aged the way cheese or tequila (scotch, Irish whiskey, etc.) are aged. The Columbia was 34 years old and I was 55 when we became master and mate. After that many years, aged to perfection seemed to fit perfectly for her. Of course, I am a work in progress and perfection is a long way off.
 
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David Stanfield

Name game

We named our Catalina 25 Hydrotherapy.We are the third owners of this 1978 model; we chose to disregard former names. Our choice expresses our enjoyment of sailing as a therapeutic experience, even when in hotly contested racing!
 
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Dennis Baird

Naming my boat

It is important to carefully name a boat because how you name her is how you will respond to her. A year ago I finally admitted to myself that I wanted to return to sailing and the sea. I bought a Tanzer 7.5 and two weeks after buying the boat my wife and I searched for names we could bestow on the boat because my boat had no name - even though it is almost 25 years old. It took just one beer at an Austrian restaurant in Ste-Agathe to name her. We tried several good names: "Endeavour", "Intrepid" were too pretentious. Other names were just as quickly discarded. But I had recently experienced a mid-life crisis and I was discovering who I was and what I really liked. I was coming home to myself. We named her "Coming Home". And today she represents a dream being fulfilled. I have come home.
 
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Bill Rice

My wife's

Had planned on naming my new sailboat "my wife's 401K", but when the stock market went south could only afford a 22 year old sailboat and was forced to keep the boats old name.
 
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J J Larsen

The sailing vessel named LIBERTY

The vessel is named LIBERTY after the USN electronics ship attacked by Israel during one of Israels wars with her neighbors.
 
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Bob Weakley

RIPPLE uncovered

RIPPLE; Water or wine . . . both actually. I was enjoying a non-descript but deliciously ice cold Chabils blanc on a hot 1999 June afternoon while anxiously awaiting the delivery of my new 26X. I began drawing its outline in the condesate on the side of the glass. It was a big glass. As I drew I noticed the ripples in the glass. Almost simultaneously, I envisioned the twin rudders of the Mac as the extensions of the two P's in ripple cutting through the water and the rest as they say is nomenclature. Graphically speaking, my boat's name actually depicts the twin P's extension something like an lazy S. That's lazy S, as in Q, R, S, T . . . in case your wondering.
 
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Alan Huffman

Double meaning

Our Catalina 30 was named Buen Ayre, spanish for "Good Air" whne we bought it. No one could say it, spell it, or understand it. We went through a renaming ceremony with a lot of friends and a lot of champagne, and renamed her "First Course", in part because of our love of good wine and good food. We Also hope to move on to a "Main Course" in the future. In either case, the dinghy will be "Oar Dourve".
 
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Richard Norman

NO... it's not Canadian!

My wife & I could not agree on a name till we used our original home country. She was from Canada & I was born in England. All our boats have since been called CANUK ! ( CAN for Canada & UK for England)We now have CANUK lll - although she says it should be called ' CANUK -The Last'
 
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Steve Goldman

Changed the name

We renamed the boat "On Sail". This was my wife's choice as I renamed our first Boat, a 28' Newport. The boat sunk after being blown off the mooring. After purchasing my present sail boat, a 1986 Hunter 34, my wife said I am no longer to pick names. We did have a renaming cerimony.
 
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Gary Carlson

"Marital Bliss"

We bought our O'Day Widgeon new in 1974 as part of the Gold Medal Fleet. It was immediately named the "Marital Bliss" because I sail but my wife doesn't (she likes her feet firmly planted on terra firma). So the sailboat became, with my wife's blessing, my little getaway from the trials and tribulations of marriage.
 
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