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Silar_Phas
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Initially Posted - 05/07/2008 : 14:05:18

I know that a name has to find its boat ( or is it a name has to " come to your mind " ) but I just can 't figure a name for my boat ...

well I need help , do u have any nice name for a new boat ?

Sebas, quebec ,proud owner of 250wb 2007 hull #926 ...

Edited by - Silar_Phas on 05/07/2008 20:53:50

Al
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Response Posted - 05/07/2008 : 14:46:26

Check out http://www.yachtsee.com/boatnames.htm

Pick a category that sounds interesting then go through the names till something jumps out at you....Have Fun....!

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piseas
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Response Posted - 05/07/2008 : 16:18:50

How about the name,"Cant Think Of A Name!" or "No Name".
Al, nice site for boat names.
My trouble is I have the name but cant find the font I like.
Steve A

Edited by - piseas on 05/07/2008 16:19:47

Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 05/07/2008 : 18:50:39

The boat's name is important. Don't hurry it. Launch and sail without a name. A good name will come to you. Involve the whole family in it.

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 05/07/2008 : 19:12:16

Being from Quebec, you might appreciate the name on my friends boat...

S'ail La Vie

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528
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Response Posted - 05/07/2008 : 20:12:06

Congrats on your new boat. Don't rush the naming of the boat. I don't have a suggestion for the boat, but in the mean time, you could name the Crown Vic "Steady as she goes"....

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GaryB
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Response Posted - 05/07/2008 : 20:28:26

How about "Cat with No Name"! Get the take on the America song "Horse with No Name!

Edited by - GaryB on 05/07/2008 20:28:46

Silar_Phas
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Response Posted - 05/07/2008 : 20:47:19

steady as she goes... lol

I really like u guys ...

nice forum

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JohnP
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Response Posted - 05/07/2008 : 20:49:16

You will be sailing the boat with your friends and family perhaps for years to come. I bet you can find a name that is relevant for your lifestyle and your philosophy.

I like the name "Pocket Rocket", don't you?

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Steve Blackburn
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Response Posted - 05/07/2008 : 21:20:33

Don't take this the hard way but reading the Crown Victoria thread sent chills up my spine. I would recommend: Obliviously Brash

I think JohnP put it best, go with a name that means something to you. In my case when we left Quebec City my son (8 then) put it best "Ca va etre une Nouvelle Vie papa". Since "Nouvelle Vie" is way to long and none of the anglos could pronounce it, I tried shortening it using Latin which became Portuguese somehow down the road. Just for the beauty of the phonetics (to me anyways): Vida Nova.

Like Randy suggested, I sailed for over 1 year thinking about names. Think of something that is easy enough to understand on the radio and idealy multi-lingual. For example "Turlututu" is NOT a good name LOL. I was also thinking of Tibato (you'll get it) but then remembered that English speakers would have a heck of a hard time with that one probably pronoucing it like Tie-Bay-Toe.

And hey, we like you too! You'll love this forum filled with very knowledgable and experience people. Don't be afraid to ask seemingly "stupid" questions and be ready to listen and follow advice (you'll save lots of time and money in the long run). Unlike other forums very seldomly (if any) will you see uneducated recommendations. Welcome aboard and Bienvenue!

Edited by - Steve Blackburn on 05/07/2008 21:32:28

GaryB
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Response Posted - 05/08/2008 : 07:45:51

Now see I would have pronounced Tibato as Tibideaux

Unfortunately someone else is already using Tibato. Check out Page 7 of this link under For Sale -->> http://cps-ottawa.com/docs/2007_02_Ripples.pdf

Edited by - GaryB on 05/08/2008 07:54:08

willy
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Response Posted - 05/08/2008 : 09:12:00

How about Bluesette ? It is the name of a jazz compositon by Toots Thielman and sounds kind of French! I was saving the name for the day I had a 40 footer! It's a great piece of music that actually reminds me of sailing!

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Prospector
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Response Posted - 05/08/2008 : 11:54:41

I think the name has to be between the boat and its sailors. You can't really have someone else name your boat, although something someone else says could become its name. Comme ca...

Some friends were sitting around and talking about their boat in the living room trying to come up with names when their eldest daughter (a decided non-sailor) walked through. They had been suggesting and rejecting names for close to 2 hours, and she just said "The way you guys are going on about this, you're all crazy, I'm putting you in the asylum"

The boat was named "Asylum", which has more than one meaning:

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a·sy·lum Audio Help (#601;-s#299;'l#601;m) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. An institution for the care of people, especially those with physical or mental impairments, who require organized supervision or assistance.
2. A place offering protection and safety; a shelter.
3. A place, such as a church, formerly constituting an inviolable refuge for criminals or debtors.
4. The protection afforded by a sanctuary. See Synonyms at shelter.
5. Protection and immunity from extradition granted by a government to a political refugee from another country.

When we picked out our name we kept a few tenets on hand as follows:
1. It had to be short.
2. It had to be recognizable if said in a rushed panic over the radio
3. It had to be easily spelled in phonetics
4. It had to be so unobtrusive that people wouldn't be asking what it meant, why we chose it, where it came from, etc.
5. It couldn't be a duplicate of other boat names in our marina.

We chose Iris

Edited by - Prospector on 05/09/2008 17:34:20

Turk
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Response Posted - 05/08/2008 : 12:42:09

Mount the lettering upside down which says: "If you can read this, She just fell off the back end of my Crown Vic!"

Sorry . . . .

Edited by - Turk on 05/08/2008 12:42:32

barleyrooty
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Response Posted - 05/08/2008 : 14:54:44

You say tib"ay"to, I say tib"ar"to, let's rip the old name off!

Sorry. Someone had to say it.

Here are some old french/quebecois sailing ship names:

http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~jacktar/shiplist.html#louis

Edited by - barleyrooty on 05/08/2008 15:04:37

Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 05/08/2008 : 16:03:36

My new one went as "Whatsername" for several months while I was searching--the bridge operators got a kick out of that. I don't know about Prospector's fourth tenet... I enjoy unusual names and asking where they came from. (Go ahead--ask me.

) I don't especially like plays on words, like Vitamin Sea and Blue Bayou. But what I like and don't like has no bearing here. Think about your favorite music, books, places, moods,...

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jguyot
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Response Posted - 05/08/2008 : 16:53:50

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by dlucier
 Being from Quebec, you might appreciate the name on my friends boat...

S'ail La Vie
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Hey! You can't use that name........... I'm using it!!

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GaryB
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Response Posted - 05/08/2008 : 19:14:36

When I was younger we used to go to the drag boat races. One name that always stuck with me was "Quitcherbichen"

Edited by - GaryB on 05/08/2008 19:15:43

Prospector
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Response Posted - 05/09/2008 : 07:32:01

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Dave Bristle
 I don't know about Prospector's fourth tenet... I enjoy unusual names and asking where they came from. (Go ahead--ask me.

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I thought that too, but we had a friend whose boat was named "Anam Cara" he couldn't step on the dang thing without someone waltzing over and asking if it was german or dutch or chinese, then wanting to know its progeny. It took away the escapism of just being on your boat puttering when you had to explain the dang thing every half hour.

Chaque-un son gout and all that, but to me, I prefer an unobtrusive name that has a deeper meaning for me than the person who walks by and thinks - "Iris - he musta named it after his grandmother" and keeps on going.

(Edited because I am coming to realize that I can neither type, nor spell)

Edited by - Prospector on 05/09/2008 17:30:31

Dave Bristle
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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 05/09/2008 : 09:48:27

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Prospector
 ...I prefer an unobtrusive name that has a deeper meaning me than the person who walks by and thinks - "Iris - he musta named it after his grandmother" and keeps on going.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">That describes "Sarge" precisely.

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Bob Jack
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Response Posted - 05/09/2008 : 16:23:08

New names are hard...I had Catalina 22 (from 1978 to 1988) named
"No Ka Oi" by the P.O... I came to love that Hawaiian name because the boat had a noble past and an even better future after I sold her...She's still sailing and racing in Florida, under the same name . I went sailboatless for the next two decades and then I bought my new Cat 250 in January 2007.... I still haven't named her. Got a couple ideas, but I want to use Hawaiian again and there are so many choices to make.. font, color size. The leading contender is "Pia Moku"..but i just can't seem to pull the trigger... It's so darn important...gotta live with it for a long time.. I wish us both luck,
Bob

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yjacket
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Response Posted - 05/09/2008 : 16:44:59

Don't worry about the name for her. Sail her, get to know her personality. The name will come. I sailed my SJ21 for a couple years before i named her---

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MartinJW
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Response Posted - 05/10/2008 : 08:08:38

What about "Soda" or "Seven"?

Obscurely referencing,
George C.

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MartinJW
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Response Posted - 05/10/2008 : 08:34:54

We've been lucky in that the names of our boats have really just sort of come to us. Our only criteria has been that the name must be short-ish (less than maybe 10-12 letters and no more than 2-3 syllables) and easy to understand, which might be important in an emergency when you're identifying yourself over the VHF radio.

Our first boat was a used Capri-16, which the previous owner had named Blue. She was about 17 1/2 feet long overall, but her beam was about 7 1/2 feet - she looked round to us. My wife took one look at her and laughed: "She looks more like a BlueBERRY, than a sailboat!" So, the name stuck.

(By the way, the Capri-16 actually had a small cabin with a porta-pottie, cooler, and two quarter berths; we regularly "camped out" in her for a couple of days at a time. Also, she was surprisingly fast despite her short waterline and chubby beam. Finally, she was very, very simple: halyards, mainsheet, jibsheets, downhaul, outhaul - no winches, no furling, no traveler, etc., and I think that this made her very NON-intimidating for someone new to sailing like my wife. This was my wife's first sailboat and first serious experience with sailing; she fell in love with this little boat and sailing in general, and we've been messing about in sailboats ever since.)

Our second boat - a 2007 Catalina 18 mk II - was purchased when we were living in a town on Lake Tahoe. Although we had loved Blueberry, we thought that our new C-18 was much more beautiful and sleek. When we took possession of the boat in the spring, the wildflowers were in full bloom, especially the Lupines. Since the (new and beautiful) boat's arrival had coincided with the (new and beautiful) spring Lupine flowers, we named the new boat Lupine.

So, now we find ourselves the proud new owners of a 2008 C-250wk and we've been casting about for a suitable name. Since this all started with our C-16, we wanted to pay homage to the little boat, and so we've named the new boat Bluebell. This gives us a reference to our first-ever sailboat and contains a floral element connection to the first new boat that we ever owned. We're happy, and we hope the sailing Gods are pleased.

So, there you have it; more than you ever wanted to know about the nomenclature lineage of the Wallace's sailboats.

Happy sailing and good luck finding a suitable name,
(Kali &) Martin

Edited by - MartinJW on 05/10/2008 08:51:13

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