It doesn’t make sense to me either. In English, “nao” would be pronounced close to “now,” not “no.” (As far as I know, the OP is not Portuguese, in which “ñao” means “no.”)
What an interesting looking vessel. I wonder how it would handle a heavy sea. Even moderately heavy. It sort of looks like it’s designed to plow through waves, not ride them.
I used to keep track of ships visiting our port on marinetraffic.com, which allows you to go anywhere in the world and see which ships are in what ports. Sometimes I’d wander the globe looking for unusual commercial ship names. I think the most charming yet odd ones must come from Asian roots. Here are some that I’ve found:
First 1 (It had to be first, of course.)
Maiden Voyage (Did they only sail it once?)
Mild Waltz (Maybe that’s what it feels like when going though a big storm?)
Great Mind
Great Intelligence
Family Island
Fairy Island
Dream Island (These are freighters, not Disney cruise ships!)
Morning Cloud
Inspiration Lake
Basic Pioneer
Flipper
Dodo
Stealth II (Makes me a little nervous to know it’s a chemical/oil tanker.)
Turmoil (Another oil/chemical tanker that scares me a little.)
Ever Smile
Ever Dainty (a large container ship.)
Skippin’ Sue
Power Ranger
A 1928 article in Radio Broadcast magazine claimed that the name of a ship that burned off the coast of Peru in 1919 was Firewood. Alas, when I did a little more research this turned out to be too good to be true–the ship was actually named Firwood.
In 1999 I was sailing with friends in the Caribbean. We moored in some bay. In the night, our skipper did a routine check, and noticed another boat moored nearby was in a very different place than an hour before – she was poorly anchored, and the wind was blowing her toward the beach, narrowly missing crashing into our boat (and others). Our skipper managed to wake up the folks on the other boat before any damage occurred.