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
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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.”
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.
