Inspiration hit as I was driving from my pizza pick up this afternoon. I live in Helen, MD (Yeah, my mailing address is Mechanicsville, but I’m in Helen.) So if we make our hailing port Helen, and we name the boat Troy, it’ll be Troy of Helen.
So whaddya think? 
My husband hated that idea…
Well, here’s one place to get us a boat name…
I like it. If you are going to use Helen for your hailing port, how about…
Mount Saint (Helen)
Climb the (Helen)
A Handbasket
or
Keel-N-Time
His Sea Fit
Effen
Sloop Doggy Dogg
I’ve always wanted to see a boat named
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Camel of the Ocean**
Turnabout’s fair play.
If it was a guy’s boat, it could be named My Moustache, as in, “Would you like to go for a ride on My Moustache?”
There was a boat in the marina where I had my houseboat, and on the back was:
1 - O - 1
and the zero in the middle had a cartoon of a mangy hound with a smirk on it’s face. The actual name of the boat:
One Spot One.
Cute. 
How about:
U 4 E A
Sloop Too Nuts
I saw a sailboat very much like that one named Mental Floss yesterday. Gee, I wonder who it could belong to?
If your luck is anything like mine was when I used to sail, you could name it * Be Calmed*.
I’m not feeling too clever today. It’s about 120 degrees American in this corner of the house just now.
Sea ya’ Later.
Hole in the Water
I say, spit in the face of fate! How about
Titanic II
Andrea Doria II
Edmund Fitzgerald Junior
The Bismark
If you insist on more conventional names
*Sail Call
Sail Fraud
Wind Yammer
Undecided Boater
Phisherman
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We nicknamed my friends boat Land Ho because it never left its trailer in the driveway.
How about going generic and calling it Sailboat?
how about something anti-boater like Mr Sinky, Cap Size or Bottom Dweller.
This or New Tits?
Perhaps something that has nothing to do with water like Automated Teller Machine, Pizza or Ditch Digger.
Microsoft Bob?
Not Stupid - Just Dinghy.
I’d steal a proposed but unused spaceship name from Schlock Mercenary:
Polysyllabic Designation.
Hot Ruddered Bum
Boater here Checking in
my three sailboats currently have the names of
Walkabout
Dillworth
Zeeboli
I would caution against something cute and clever that borders on offensive. I have heard someon on the radio hailing “Bull Ship, Bull Ship, Bull Ship” and it took me untill the third time the name was called to realize that it wasn’t a random person shouting an curse word.
I have a friend that has named his boat RX to Sea, his old boat was always Baroque
I have seen Billable Hours or (ours) not sure on which spelling they used
there are also your fair share of everyday of the week’s child
Silver Girl is a name I’ve always wanted for a boat. Simon & Garfunkle, of course.
I thought it was bad luck to re-name a boat?!
If you’re in to superstition and all that.
That said, I’m glad I liked the name mine came with. It would have made me uncomfortable to have a boat name I couldn’t get with and couldn’t change. First Time Suited the experience just fine!
It won’t be mine for long anyway. It isn’t just right, and the Mr. says that if he’s going to keep throwing money into a toy, he’s damnwell going to get something he really wants. It makes me sad, but he’s right. Plus, when starting a business, one needs the available capital. He says that when the business takes off, within about 2 years we can buy a brand new one. Right. I’ll make my appointment with Egg Harbor right now!
This is a good one - I’ve always loved S&G - can’t believe this never occurred to me!
No, it’s not bad luck as long as you get a virgin to pee on her foredeck. :eek: At least, that what my spousal unit, the big-shot licensed Coast Guard Master, tells me,
Does the sailboat have a dinghy attached?
Dinghy: Paid IV
Sailboat: Knot Paid IV
Can’t top that one.
As a retired commercial captain, the only advice I can offer is to choose a name that doesn’t sound silly when you make a radio call.
Back in the early 80s I delivered a new sailboat that was named Nookie. The owner was a strip club operator.
My last sailboat was named Corsair, as a tribute to the airplanes my late father flew in WW2, and sort of a (very) weak play-on-words of rough weather (coarse air).