[QUOTE=Faruiza]
You know a virgin?!
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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… <snerk>
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…
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.”
[QUOTE=Tupug Anachi]
Wow, page two already and nobody has come up with Fairy Ferry?
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I’m not identifying the guilty party, but someone rolled his eyes at this one.
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.
[QUOTE=FairyChatMom]
<snip> 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…
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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!
[QUOTE=Sharky]
You must conduct a ceremony to appease Neptune to avoid bad luck. Boat Renaming Ceremony
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You call that a ceremony? Nobody has to vomit, get hit, dress in drag, eat anything raw, or touch anyone else’s ass?
[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?
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All of that is reserved for the christening ceremony.
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All right, then what you do when you cross the equator? Eat a baby?
