# Wanted: Boat names **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 23, 2006, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-boat-names/365653 "2006-07-23T00:22:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-boat-names/365653/81 "2006-07-25T19:49:09Z")
[QUOTE=Faruiza] You _know_ a virgin?! [/QUOTE] Well, there’s a fairly large Amish community in this county - I figger I’ve got as good a chance of finding one there as anywhere. Of course, enticing one to oblige us… \ Incidentally, we have an agreement. And barring an unsatisfactory survey (that’s an inspection) or sea trial (test sail) we will be boat owners again. My husband is leaning toward _Pleione_ or _Volantis_ for the name. But we’ve still got a few weeks to work it out. He’s not as enamored of \*Silver Girl \* as I am. And he thinks you’re all mostly silly. After all, the naming of boats is a serious matter - it isn’t just one of your holiday games… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-boat-names/365653/82 "2006-07-25T19:52:40Z")
S.S. More Powerful Than Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, And The Incredible Hulk Put Together ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-boat-names/365653/83 "2006-07-25T20:35:54Z")
_Kon-Tiki Barber Davey Jones’ Mocker Full Ot Sam_ ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-boat-names/365653/84 "2006-07-25T21:35:47Z")
Wow, page two already and nobody has come up with **Fairy Ferry**? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-boat-names/365653/85 "2006-07-25T22:02:06Z")
Do you like J.R.R. Tolkien at all? I could come up with some good nautically-themed names in Sindarin, if you like. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-boat-names/365653/86 "2006-07-25T22:03:48Z")
I once read in SAIL magazine that the most common words in boat names were Knot and Sloop, and most of those were puns. If you name her _Das Boot,_ you’ll have to write instructions on the keel. 😉 My stepmom named hers _For You My Love,_ and she felt bridge tenders were a little speedier when they heard that moniker. I heard of a doctor who named his sailboat _Quick Release,_ for that’s what it did to his worries. A few weeks later, he learned that phrase means diarrhea in another language. **Toot Sweet** is a pun on a French phrase meaning “quickly.” **Keel Holler** **Happy Happy Happy** **God Blows, We Go** My little sailboat has no motor, and I was confused at the BMV when I registered the boat. In the space marked “horsepower,” I finally wrote “whatever God will give me.” **Cloth Power** ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-boat-names/365653/87 "2006-07-25T23:55:43Z")
[QUOTE=Tupug Anachi] Wow, page two already and nobody has come up with **Fairy Ferry**? 😃 [/QUOTE] I’m not identifying the guilty party, but _someone_ rolled his eyes at this one. ---
**Author:** ![Sharky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Sharky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sharky)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-boat-names/365653/88 "2006-07-26T02:16:57Z")
[QUOTE=Faruiza] I thought it was bad luck to re-name a boat?! If you’re in to superstition and all that. [/QUOTE] You must conduct a ceremony to appease Neptune to avoid bad luck. [Boat Renaming Ceremony](http://www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/rename.htm) > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Although I still like Silver Girl a lot. That is a classy name. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-boat-names/365653/89 "2006-07-26T13:35:36Z")
_The Molly Brown Water Youdoin Heir Bubble_ ---
**Author:** ![Tabula\_Rasa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@Tabula\_Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabula_Rasa)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-boat-names/365653/90 "2006-07-26T14:41:06Z")
You could name her “Millie”. Then she’d be Millie – Helen (as in Helen, MD), a nice allusion to the millihelen, the standard unit of beauty needed to launch one ship. Tabby ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-boat-names/365653/91 "2006-07-26T17:06:15Z")
[QUOTE=FairyChatMom] \ And he thinks you’re all mostly silly. After all, the naming of boats is a serious matter - it isn’t just one of your holiday games… 😃 [/QUOTE] Well then. Obviously the name must be _Grumpy Gus_. 😉 I think \*Silver Girl \* is pretty. But how you can restrain yourself from using the name \*Gone With The Wind \* I’ll never know! ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-boat-names/365653/92 "2006-07-26T17:26:13Z")
[QUOTE=Sharky] You must conduct a ceremony to appease Neptune to avoid bad luck. [Boat Renaming Ceremony](http://www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/rename.htm) [/QUOTE] You call that a _ceremony?_ Nobody has to vomit, get hit, dress in drag, eat anything raw, or touch anyone else’s ass? ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-boat-names/365653/93 "2006-07-26T18:57:27Z")
How 'bout a Seals & Croft ref then? _Music_ ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-boat-names/365653/94 "2006-07-26T19:01:34Z")
[QUOTE=Belrix] How 'bout a Seals & Croft ref then? _Music_ [/QUOTE] Don’t you mean Crosby, Stills, & Nash? ---
**Author:** ![Stringer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Stringer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringer)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-boat-names/365653/95 "2006-07-26T19:25:52Z")
My friend and I were just talking about what we’d name a yacht if we were rich enough to have one. **Wake at Noon** was the clear favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Sharky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Sharky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sharky)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-boat-names/365653/96 "2006-07-27T01:27:22Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] You call that a _ceremony?_ Nobody has to vomit, get hit, dress in drag, eat anything raw, or touch anyone else’s ass? [/QUOTE] All of that is reserved for the christening ceremony. 😃 > [@micahjn](#): > > My friend and I were just talking about what we’d name a yacht if we were rich enough to have one. > > **Wake at Noon** was the clear favorite. A few years ago a friend of mine bought a sailboat named **Sleep 'Til Noon**. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-boat-names/365653/97 "2006-07-27T02:27:32Z")
[QUOTE=Sharky] [Quote=Beware of Doug] You call that a ceremony? Nobody has to vomit, get hit, dress in drag, eat anything raw, or touch anyone else’s ass? [/quote] All of that is reserved for the christening ceremony. 😃 [/QUOTE] All right, then what you do when you cross the equator? Eat a baby? ---
**Author:** ![Sharky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Sharky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sharky)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-boat-names/365653/98 "2006-07-27T04:36:19Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] All right, then what you do when you cross the equator? Eat a baby? [/QUOTE] Oh, shoot - you’re right. I had my ceremonies mixed up. I’m obviously a slimy pollywog. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-boat-names/365653/99 "2006-07-27T15:35:59Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] Don’t you mean Crosby, Stills, & Nash? [/QUOTE] Umm. Yeah. Southern Cross is the song. I don’t suppose S&C did an obscure cover that I could use to save face on this one? ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-boat-names/365653/100 "2006-07-27T15:45:39Z")
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