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GaryB
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Initially Posted - 03/21/2008 : 21:45:23

My wife and I have been trying to come up with a new name for our C25. She thinks she's got a new name picked out. Since my initials are GB she wants to call it HeBGB or He B GB or HeBeGeBe or HeBeGeeBee. I'm not that sold on the name.

What do you folks think? Feel free to give your honest opinions.

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GaryB
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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 03/21/2008 : 22:14:59

Not sure I'd want to sail a boat that gave me the hebegeebees! LOL

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GaryB
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Response Posted - 03/21/2008 : 22:26:37

That's kinda what I was thinking!

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josh-hansen
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Response Posted - 03/21/2008 : 22:31:01

I think you're on the right track. Our boats are too small and recreational for serious names like Diligence or Intrepid (IMHO). I went with Nautilus (after the great captian Nemo's sub), which my kids chose and I sometimes regret.

Good By (intials GB)

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GaryB
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Response Posted - 03/21/2008 : 22:46:55

Or Good Buy! :)

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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 03/21/2008 : 23:24:48

If you want to check out some names, you could do a search in Yahoo for "Boat Names" or check out some of the online boat graphic mfrs, they usually have a bunch of samples you can look at for ideas.

We finally settled on a name we came up on our owm - Robin's Nest. "Robin" is my wife's middle name and the boat is like another home...or "nest". Our children recently graduated college and we are sort of now in the transition of becoming empty "nesters".

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John Russell
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Response Posted - 03/21/2008 : 23:35:10

just remember it's going to be something you'll hav to repeat on a radio someday. Make sure it will be intelligible. That's one of the things I don't like about "Kaija" It's Latvian and, the last I checked, that's not a terribly common language around northern Ohio. I'm sure when I say it over the radio the receivers are saying something like "What did he say?" or, "Huh?" I'd change it but it's painted on the side and I don't want to do all that work.

Also, if you have to explain it every time you say it, maybe it's not as clever as you first thought.

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bigelowp
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Response Posted - 03/22/2008 : 08:36:08

That works -- I went with a more subtle apprach with Limerick, which, besides being an Irish city, means "non-sencicle five verse rhyme" and as we have five in our family and buying any boat (read: per the Admiral) could be considered nonsensicle. . . anyway go for it!

Most importantly though, get a copy of John Vigor's boat renaming ceremony/ritual and follow it thouroughly so HeBGB has a safe, long commission.

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Renzo
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Response Posted - 03/22/2008 : 08:55:18

A boat name is one of the most personal choices a person can make, other than naming a child. so I won't presume to suggest a new name but if you do decide on a play on your initals, might I suggest spelling it HeBeG.B.

What ever you decide make sure you realy love it because you are going to say it and hear it and write it and explain it over and over again for a looong time.

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Mike013
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Response Posted - 03/22/2008 : 09:18:03

My 4 year old granddaughter named "Ariel" after the Little Mermaid. Sometimes kids can come up with the best names.

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 03/22/2008 : 12:20:59

My latest name, Sarge, has great family significance--everyone was elated by the choice... But when I call the railroad bridge operator once, he said I'd get better service if the name was "Chief".

(Guess which branch he retired from.)

Sorry, Gary--you're on your own here. Nobody can begin to help but your family, and none of our opinions are worth two cents.

Edited by - Dave Bristle on 03/22/2008 12:22:54

piseas
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Response Posted - 03/22/2008 : 22:59:01

Sorry, dont like name, it sends shivers up my spine.
Steve A

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Voyager
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Response Posted - 03/23/2008 : 00:49:17

I didn't change the name of Passage when my wife and I bought her last year, because the name has lots of cool meanings and because I like the name. (I never did get around to asking Dave why he named her Passage, but I can guess).

I just read an article in the March Issue of "Windcheck", a local sailing magazine (www.windchecklis.com) about renaming your boat. They had some pretty good advice on several ways to do it - mainly so as not to incite the gods of the deep!

I named my Sunbird daysailor Voyager, because she used to take me to places and made me deal with conditions I would not have guessed I would have attempted in a 16 foot boat.

For a long time before I bought a new boat, I thought I might name my next boat the Summer Wind, like the song Frank Sinatra made famous.

That song title struck me because summer is so fleeting here in Connecticut - by the time you get into the swing of summer, it's already August. And then, just a little while more, it's all but over.

Or so I used to think.

I've come to enjoy the still-warm days of September, and through most of October. That's the time when the last of "the Summer Wind" really kicks in - on those sunny late summer - early fall days.

I know at least for me, a boat's name ought to tell a story, or have some kind of meaning.

. . . . and it also has to be easily recognizable over the radio!

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stampeder
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Response Posted - 03/23/2008 : 12:47:34

I like Hebejebe or a derivative of.

I like it when kids name things. Having the Admiral participate has long term benefits. (means she's bought into it on an emotional level)

Main thing for me with Dog names and boat names etc, is if you have to shout it out in a crowd, would you be embarrassed or proud?

We had a lot of fun naming our boat Labarca. Our dog had a lot to do with it, even though she doesn't speak Spanish as well as I do.

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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 03/23/2008 : 13:21:37

We've already named our boat, and since it is probably the last one we'll ever buy, I'll pass this on to you. I just thought of this last week, and don't tell our boat, but I would have named her "Jellico Kat" after the characters in the musical "Kats".
I just think it would be a kool name for a Catalina boat, if it hasn't been taken already.

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 03/23/2008 : 19:10:23

Good thing you didn't... It's "Jellicle Cats" from Cats.

Edited by - Dave Bristle on 03/23/2008 19:11:01

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Response Posted - 03/23/2008 : 19:16:04

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Voyager
 I didn't change the name of Passage when my wife and I bought her last year, because the name has lots of cool meanings and because I like the name. (I never did get around to asking Dave why he named her Passage, but I can guess).<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">She came to us as Passage, and we liked the almost spiritual quality of the name. It marked a sort of passage for us into empty-nesthood. Later, the nest became much too empty, and Passage became lonely, so moved on.

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GaryB
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Response Posted - 03/23/2008 : 21:59:46

Hey Larry!

Check out this site! http://dallas.craigslist.org/boa/616289969.html

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John Russell
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Response Posted - 03/23/2008 : 22:11:17

Is Larry really a closeted stinkpotter masquerading all this time? Pshaw!

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JohnP
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Response Posted - 03/24/2008 : 21:22:21

Ain't no stinkpotter, nope! Unless he's leading a secret life in Dallas!

If Larry buys this boat he can have a pair of boats with exactly the same name. One for windy, one for calm days. Or one for his laid back friends, one for the big boss who wants cocktails and big wakes.

Yeah, double boat units, too!

Edited by - JohnP on 03/24/2008 21:24:58

GaryB
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Response Posted - 03/24/2008 : 22:23:06

I'd be more than happy to keep his Dallas boat exercised!

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 03/25/2008 : 09:27:57

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by GaryB
 I'd be more than happy to keep his Dallas boat exercised!
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">There's your closet stinkpotter!

(At least I'm out of the closet.)

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Prospector
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Response Posted - 03/25/2008 : 14:38:02

Is that exercised or exorcised? Either way, it all works. Another note on the name thing. Be sure that the name is both clear to say and easy to spell.

A part of the reason we elected to rename our boat was that the name was half a mile long and spelling is not always a strong point, let alone in phonetics. Let alone a name that doesn't match its phonetics.

We chose a name that would have an obvious meaning to folks on the dock, but a second, deeper meaning to our family.

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GaryB
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Response Posted - 08/21/2008 : 12:19:01

Anybody using the name Stray Cat for a boat name?

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 08/21/2008 : 12:30:18

Cat names are a good play on words
Felix, great graphic possibility
Cool Cat
Cat's paw
cat box
nine lives
frisky
tabby cat
Tom Cat
Top cat
and of course... Sylvester

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cat1951
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Response Posted - 08/21/2008 : 13:08:03

How about just plain old: GEE BEE You could use a Bee for the mascot, or the short winged plane of the 30's.... or Grand Banks, then you will have a true Grand Banks schooner.

Edited by - cat1951 on 08/21/2008 13:09:08

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