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waterbaby
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Initially Posted - 01/28/2012 : 20:32:39

After almost a year of trying to come up with a name for our boat - I think we found it! Yeah!!!

Cacique (Basically it means Chief in the Taino indian tribes)

We're going to sleep and think on this for a few days - but what do you think?

1986 TR/SK #5250 Sunshine

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 01/28/2012 : 20:41:54

I like it! We went through probably two dozen names before we settled on ours. How is it pronounced? CAH-see-kay?

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Response Posted - 01/29/2012 : 08:59:05

Brush up on the phonetic alphabet, you'll need it for the radio.
Charlie Alpha Charlie India Quebec Uniform Echo

I have the same problem. My boat, Kaija, becomes Kappa Alpha India Juliet Alpha on the radio. The DPO named it. It supposedly means either seagull (I was told upon purchase)or lovebirds (Google translater) in Finnish. I'm glad I've never been in a serious situation when I've been asked "Huh???" When I say the name.

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Response Posted - 01/29/2012 : 09:23:25

A quick Google yields the top search results for Cacique as a plus size bra brand followed by being the number one brand of Hispanic cheese.

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islander
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Response Posted - 01/29/2012 : 09:44:52

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">A quick Google yields the top search results for Cacique as a plus size bra brand <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
Well Kate, Can you handle that???

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Response Posted - 01/29/2012 : 10:40:01

a boat named plus sized bra would not be a bad thing???

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John Russell
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Response Posted - 01/29/2012 : 11:05:01

A little decorum for the newbie guys.

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waterbaby
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Response Posted - 01/29/2012 : 15:39:29

OMG!!! You GUYS!!! :) I think I can handle the bra size, but the cheese pushes me over the edge.

We were debating the spelling, and thought we'd go with the more 'correct' version. Obviously this is problematic, so lets try it this way 'Cacike' Charlie, Alpha, Charlie, India, Kilo, Echo

Anything interesting with this?

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Voyager
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Response Posted - 01/29/2012 : 20:17:57

A pair of ladies in my home port of Milford do "a Plus size bra" one better. Their 20 ft runabout is called "Sea Cups"!
I couldn't make this stuff up.

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Response Posted - 01/29/2012 : 20:58:37

Hello Waterbaby,
I am originally from Brazil.
Cacique is the indians chief for most part of the Southern American Indians. There is also the PAJE (PAH-JAZZ) would be the sound of it, and that is the tribe's Medicine Man.

There is CURUMIN meaning Young Indian Boy.

I am trying to help, I swear!

Cheers

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islander
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Response Posted - 01/30/2012 : 06:26:32

So if I Google 'Cacike' It corrects my spelling and sends me right back to...Well you know..

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Response Posted - 01/30/2012 : 06:48:42

search [url="http://www.google.com/search?q=Cacique&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=SID&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&source=hp&q=Cacique+defined&pbx=1&oq=Cacique+defined&aq=f&aqi=g-j1&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=13498l15188l0l15619l8l7l0l1l1l0l140l696l5.2l8l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=588b3e7678b699e9&biw=1366&bih=638"]"Cacique defined"[/url]

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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 01/30/2012 : 16:00:48

If you are lookig for native american indian names, here's a few:
TADEWI = wind (Omaha)
WAKANDA = possesses magical power (Sioux)
EHAWEE = laughing maiden (Sioux)
KACHINA = spirit, sacred dancer (Hopi)

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redviking
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Response Posted - 01/31/2012 : 06:25:00

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Sam001
 a boat named plus sized bra would not be a bad thing???
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

I just spent way too much time looking at casique models.

Renzo, where have you been?

Vessel names should be clear and understandable. I have heard all too often the Coasties requesting a clearer understanding of a vessels name, so knowing the alphabet is a good idea. However, this does not always work so well. I once was relaying a mayday from a fishing skiff who could not get his outboard started in the Gulf, and the Coastie asked me to spell the name of my vessel, "Lima, Yankee, Sierra, India, Sierra, Tango, Romeo, Alpha, Tango, Alpha - How copy?" Coastie comes back and says, "Can you spell that for me again?" Sigh, "L-Y-S-I-S-T-R-A-T-A"

Another time, when in heavy shipping traffic in the dark as we neared Annapolis, I hailed a car carrier, agreed on how we would pass and then another ship hailed us, "Hey Lyposuction!"

sten

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Response Posted - 01/31/2012 : 09:05:24

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by redviking
 Vessel names should be clear and understandable...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Roger that, Lyposuction!

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redeye
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Response Posted - 01/31/2012 : 10:32:11

Yepper.. I wanted to recommend "Chief Taino".

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redeye
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Response Posted - 01/31/2012 : 10:42:56

<< Vessel names should be clear and understandable >>

I've always said you want your vessel name to be something that when you pronounce it over the radio on a dark and stormy night with bad reception, the coast guard ( or others ) can possible hear it once and still make a pretty good stab at it...

Always wanted to name a boat: "Marco"

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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 01/31/2012 : 10:56:41

<clear and understandable>
That's one reason why I wanted to keep ours short and simple, but also indicative of having fun, hence "Recess"! Don't know about you guys up north or out west, but that's what we called playtime when I was in school.

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Response Posted - 01/31/2012 : 11:32:45

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Renzo, where have you been?

[/quote]Hawaii, and he didn’t take any of us with him

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Response Posted - 01/31/2012 : 13:03:25

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> Clear and understandable<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
That's what I was hinting at in my earlier post. Unique and deeply meaningful names may be nice but they can be a real hindrance to communications. I'd keep the special names for my kids or dog, etc., and simplify the boat name. This might be the season that my "distinctive" name gets stripped off the hull if I can afford a bottle of champagne for Neptune. Oh, yeah, and IF I'm have the ambition to rub out the gelcoat and still put up with the old shadows. That's a big IF.

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Response Posted - 01/31/2012 : 18:48:00

Yup--nobody has yet asked me to spell Sarge, although my emergency instruction sheet includes the phonetic version: Siera-Alpha-Romeo-Golf-Echo. Quick and easy. (Half as long as Lypowhatever.)

One time a bridge operator did suggest I might get better service if the name was Chief. Some here can relate...

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John Russell
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Response Posted - 01/31/2012 : 19:38:11

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Stinkpotter
 Yup--nobody has yet asked me to spell Sarge, although my emergency instruction sheet includes the phonetic version: Siera-Alpha-Romeo-Golf-Echo. Quick and easy. (Half as long as Lypowhatever.)

One time a bridge operator did suggest I might get better service if the name was Chief. Some here can relate...

<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Once upon a time the Army had more boats than the Navy and they still might. So, Sarge may actually be more prevalent on the waterways. BTW, they have more planes than the Air Force, too.

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waterbaby
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Response Posted - 01/31/2012 : 21:36:45

Ok, Ok. Thank you for your feedback. The name doesn't work, partly because I don't want anyone confusing our boat with an oversized bra and also because it's just too difficult. I have to agree with your advice about keeping it simple, since everytime I try to tell someone the new name idea I have to stop and think about how to pronounce it.

I've always been facinated with native american indians, but that wasn't why we thought of this name. Hubby is from PR and offered this one to me. We've been going back and forth for months. I find one I like, he doesn't like it. He finds one he likes - no way Jose for me. He came up with this one and it was the first one we both liked.

Heres some of the options I've come up with that he thinks are too girly. Soulmate, Miss Me, Splash (cause I read the book and liked it), Take Out, and my latest fav, Bounce.

Here's some of his options that I think are just too - uh - well... I dunno, just not right. Dragonfly, Fasination, Melody, Harmony (these last three have songs and he's got an idea in his head that we'll play a song everytime we dock. I think that's a fun idea, I just don't like the names. Maybe if he said 'Whip It'?)

There have been others, lots of others but they were all shot down the minute they were spoken aloud.

As you can see we are seriously challenged here. (I like Marco by the way.) I want the name to be fun and not serious, I think he's looking for more depth in the name. This poor boat will never get a name....

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John Russell
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Response Posted - 01/31/2012 : 21:47:47

How about "My Boat"?

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Ape-X
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Response Posted - 02/01/2012 : 04:29:08

waterbaby, just wait until you try to find the font for putting the name ON the boat. :O)

We ended up with Moe' Uhane (Hawaiian for "dream") in Ravie font.

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redviking
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Response Posted - 02/01/2012 : 06:10:25

I think this one would be a good name.

sten

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