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JimB517
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Initially Posted - 01/08/2004 : 16:41:11

...Sotally Tober. That's the word from Boating magazine that recognized the clever name chosen by Dan Svitko of McKeesport, Pa., for his 23-foot Sea Ray Sundancer. He's been honored with the magazine's 2003 grand prize in its annual boat name contest.

Other leading contenders for the best boat name were:
Liquid Medication
Miss Mymoney
Floating Doc, which belongs to a doctor in Austin, Texas.

BoatU.S., which makes graphics and lettering for boat names, jokes that some boat owners spend more time thinking up a name for their boat than they do for their child. It says the most popular boat names for 2002 were:
Liberty
Victory
Aquaholic
Bite Me
Endless Summer
Seahorse
Footloose
Sliver Lining
Miss Behavin
Moondance

Indiscipline 1978 FK SR #398

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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 01/08/2004 : 17:27:43

There's a J-24 at my lake that is named "Cutthroat" and is owned by an ear, nose and throat surgeon.

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ppetracca
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Response Posted - 01/08/2004 : 18:13:39

Another DWI on the water? Funny they select the name that glorifies a serious problem (at least at most lakes I've visited). Of course, a powerboat.

I'm no tea totaler, but I do have opinions when it comes to putting across an image.

...ok...stepping down off my soap box now.

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Douglas
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Response Posted - 01/08/2004 : 20:06:19

Although the name that won may seem funny it might be wise to point out one thing. Think of what its going to sound like if you have to make a may day or emergency call to the Coast Guard. I wouln't expect a person who would name a boat like that would take sailing seriously.Or anything else they might do on the water.

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oldsalt
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Response Posted - 01/08/2004 : 20:55:03

The cleverest boat name I have ever seen was plastered in big letters across the transom of a real pretty, heavilly equipped, Viking Sports Fisherman: "THANKS DAD".

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osmepneo
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Response Posted - 01/09/2004 : 07:51:57

Gotta agree with Patrick and Douglas - there is a serious problem with DWI on the waters, and a name like "Sotally Tober" honors that problem. And, tells folks that its ok to drink and drive on the water. It's not, and we should not honor it.

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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 01/09/2004 : 08:10:57

Right on Patrick and Don...

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Kirk McKay
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Response Posted - 01/09/2004 : 10:40:07

My favorite name at our Marina is:

Someday Came.

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svmoxie
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Response Posted - 01/09/2004 : 10:51:26

[url="http://www.goodoldboat.com/index_main.html"]Good Old Boat[/url] magazine recently held a "Funny Boat Name" contect for its subscribers. The winner was a boat that had turtled several times and the owner named it "Don't Panic" with the name upside down on the hull. He won vinyl boat lettering... I wonder if he is supposed to change his boat name?!

I won second place with the dinghy name "[url="http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b4df28b3127cce864ba895654e0000001610"]Row vs Wade[/url] "

and won a bag from [url="http://www.weekendrproducts.com/"]WeekendR Products[/url]. I already had the smaller version of his bag called The G'tAway and this time I am getting the larger version, The Weekend'R. If you haven't seen Ken Kloeber's offerings you should check out his website. I am hooked on these clothing/gear bags. Here is a [url="http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b4df28b3127cce864bc8eee4350000001610"]link[/url] to an image of the top of my bag. I had my boat name and sail number embroidered on the top flap.

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 01/09/2004 : 11:04:43

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Steve Milby
 There's a J-24 at my lake that is named "Cutthroat" and is owned by an ear, nose and throat surgeon.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Theres a stink boat around here called Skin & Bones - a dermatologist married a orthopedic surgeon.

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cat5951
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Response Posted - 01/09/2004 : 11:52:06

I always liked 'Never Again II'

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 01/09/2004 : 12:52:37

I thought it was a funny name. While not a tee-totaler, I agree, drinking and boating don't mix. Nor do drinking and driving or drinking and teenagers. I've never liked boats named for money or alcohol. Still, its a clever funny name.

I mainly published this list as an alter-ego to my other thread on the names of our boats. I think these are some of the worst boat names.

Sailors are so very different from power boaters. Sailboat names invoke beauty, mystery, love, dreams. Those other boat names invoke power, arrogance, wealth, and disrespect for the environment. Sailors carve the water using nothing but wind, leaving the ocean as they found it, and consuming few of our vanishing resources.

I've been one of each and "Indiscipline" still represents for me my perpetual quest for freedom and desire to be the person I want to be not what culture, society, or "the management" tells me to be. While no one is more free than the ocean sailor, you still are not free to sail directly into the wind. You're only free to go where the wind and the current will take you.

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 01/09/2004 : 15:58:32

I named my Spirit 23 "Barber Hauler", I am a registered barber and owned a shop back then. So many people liked it that when I returned to sailing this year several people remembered the name and want me to name my new boat the same.

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timpky
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Response Posted - 01/10/2004 : 10:49:03

There is a sailboat at my marina named "Carried Away" and they naimed their dinghy "Carried Back". I thought that was pretty clever.

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osmepneo
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Response Posted - 01/10/2004 : 12:55:31

At my former club one family named their dink, Ruth 1:16 (. . . wherever you go, I will go; and whereever you lodge, I will lodge . . ..") Always thought that was pretty cleaver.

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Brooke Willson
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Response Posted - 01/11/2004 : 06:45:03

I have a pastor friend who named his Flying Junior "Visitation," so when he was on the water his secretary or his wife could tell callers that he was "out on Visitation."

That pastor is now a bishop, by the way!

I named my first boat "Conference" for the same reasons. . . I was "in Conference."

Brooke

Edited by - Brooke Willson on 01/11/2004 06:45:59

FrankV
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Response Posted - 01/11/2004 : 18:07:59

There was a boat in our marina named "Irrational Exuberance" The owner lost his job, like so many in the DFW area, and had to sell it.

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glstout
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Response Posted - 01/12/2004 : 14:55:26

A few years ago I came upon a copy of a magazine called "Boating". The editorial bent of this so called boating rag was definitely pro stink boat; very anti Sail. It appeared their belief was "it's ok to sink it if it sails". If this is the same publication referred to above it follows that they would award a prize for an irresponsible boat name.

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 01/12/2004 : 15:22:33

If you really want to see arrogance at work, take a water taxi for a few hours, that's right the ticket is good all day, around Fort Lauderdale......obscenely expensive mega-stink-pots with total screw-you-attitude names.....I chose not to remember any

Oscar

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PZell
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Response Posted - 01/12/2004 : 16:00:06

The one that catches my eye in our marina is an all out
racing machine (sail) that's called 'Running with Scissors.'

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Raskal
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Response Posted - 01/12/2004 : 18:13:52

I was going to name my dink "mini-me" for the lil' guy in the Austin Powers flicks but I figured a hundred others would have the same name before my paint dried...

Rich K.

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cathluk
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Response Posted - 01/12/2004 : 19:17:25

One power boating couple on our dock named their 27' Searay "Outa Control". The license plate on their car was "In Control".

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