# Best boat/ship names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 13, 2004, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-boat-ship-names/259684 "2004-08-13T13:20:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-boat-ship-names/259684/21 "2004-08-14T03:28:24Z")
\*Le Boat The Filthy Rich The Beastie Boat Titanic II The Andrea Dory The Sea Hump Ship of Fool \* Remember the _Flinstones_ boat name? A combination of the first three Letters of _Nautical Lady_ and the last three letters of _Queen of the Sea_. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-boat-ship-names/259684/22 "2004-08-14T03:32:43Z")
FWIW, neither of my boats are named. ---
**Author:** ![TopherX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/50afbb/32.png) [@TopherX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TopherX)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-boat-ship-names/259684/23 "2004-08-14T03:49:56Z")
I once saw a boat in a local harbor that as owned by a doctor. The boats name was the Blood Vessel. ---
**Author:** ![legion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/838e76/32.png) [@legion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legion)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-boat-ship-names/259684/24 "2004-08-14T10:23:03Z")
Unsinkable II ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-boat-ship-names/259684/25 "2004-08-14T10:43:04Z")
If you expand your reference frame a bit in airplanes, I have a friend of a friend story about a rear engined Cessna named _Pushy Galore_. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-boat-ship-names/259684/26 "2004-08-14T10:46:03Z")
Oh, and back in the days when I was an aspiring hot air balloon pilot, I wanted one that was solid hot pink, so I could name it _Floyd_ . ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-boat-ship-names/259684/27 "2004-08-14T13:37:23Z")
HMS RAGING QUEEN! (from the old SNL skit with the late John Belushi). Another good one: “ON CITY TIME” -a boat owned by a Massachusetts county employee (he had a “no show” “job”! ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-boat-ship-names/259684/28 "2004-08-14T16:16:45Z")
> [@JackPoint](#): > > In WW2 there was a bomber pilot who went through an unnatural number of planes, mostly in the line of duty. He called them all “ **Hang the expense**.” > > A friend of mine named his boat “ **Elvis** ” based on a Mojo Nixon lyric “Elvis needs boats.” nitpick: I’m pretty sure the line is: “Elvis \*eats \* boats” ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-boat-ship-names/259684/29 "2004-08-14T16:28:41Z")
> [@vunderbob](#): > > I have a friend of a friend story about a rear engined Cessna named _Pushy Galore_. That’s the name of Bruce Bohannons record breaking [Formula 1 racer.](http://www.daisey-designs.com/nx13688/f1/pushy2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Ana\_Byrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Ana\_Byrd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ana_Byrd)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-boat-ship-names/259684/30 "2004-08-14T18:09:47Z")
My aunt has a boat (unimpressively named **June Bug** ) and has invited me on it a couple of times. In the marina, there are two boats next to each other called **Last Mate** and **Second Choice Too**. Consecutive! ---
**Author:** ![malkabat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@malkabat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkabat)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-boat-ship-names/259684/31 "2004-08-14T19:42:08Z")
One friend’s musically inclined family named theirs **Key of Sea**. On a visit to Sag Harbor one summer, my husband and I noticed (for how could you not?) this bigass yacht moored there. I can’t remember its name, but the two little motorboats on it were called the **Mistress** and the **Wife**. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-boat-ship-names/259684/32 "2004-08-15T03:48:25Z")
If I ever own a boat I’ll call her **"The Naughty Lass"** ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-boat-ship-names/259684/33 "2004-08-15T04:33:31Z")
It’s not clever or anything, but we used to have a boat called **Captain Moose** , named after the two dogs we owned at the time (Captain and Moose, natch). We’d pass other boats and invariably someone would yell out “MOOOOOOSE!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-boat-ship-names/259684/34 "2004-08-15T05:00:36Z")
The smallest wooden boat with a cabin I’ve ever seen was called Toy-Yacht-A. ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-boat-ship-names/259684/35 "2004-08-15T06:34:47Z")
A friends’ parents many years ago had a boat name **Mama’s Mink**. If I ever had a boat (not likely) I’d like to name it **Left Blank**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-boat-ship-names/259684.md?page=1)