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Steve
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Initially Posted - 02/20/2002 : 18:31:11

Since it's not quite sailing season here in LA (Lower Alabama),and this forum helps to pass the time, I thought I might see if anyone would like to share how they named their boat, what it means etc, if this isn't violating some sort of nautical etiquette. I've always been interested in boat names and frequently wonder "where the hell did that come from?"

I, for one, agonized over what to name my boat for about a year. Then one day a friend stepped on board, popped open a cold beer, and said "well, now we're on island time". It's been Island Time since then.

My first boat, a Catalina 22 was named "The Great Escape" which I thought was a bit much, but I made up for it by selling it and buying a newer Catalina 22 named "Teenie Weenie". Once, while going into the dock to purchase some adult beverages I actually bumped (crashed) into a piling which sent my sailing buddy head over heels into the cabin. Of course, all the drunks on the dock thought that was hilarious. And then, one of them pointed out that the name of my boat was the "Teenie Weenie" which set off a whole new round of laughter.

Oh Well...

Steve
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OJ
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Response Posted - 02/20/2002 : 19:08:12

I used to crew on a friend's C&C 33 out of Cleveland. The boat dealer called all excited at about 1 am one Friday night and asked us to come down to the showroom to see a new boat that he'd just received. So we risked life and limb and drove through a snowstorm to the dealer. As soon as my friend saw the boat he knew he was going to buy it - to which he commented "I've got to be Out Of My F'ing Head to buy this boat," to which I replied "and you can call it Oomfh for short!" <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
As for my current boat, classical music can evoke so many emotions - as can sailing - as does Beethoven's ninth. Oddly, the call name OJ certainly evokes a contrasting reaction than Ode to Joy, doesn't it? <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

Steve Madsen
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OJ(Ode to Joy)

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John G-
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Response Posted - 02/20/2002 : 19:14:30

I live in New York city and I have always named my boats “Peregrine”. The Peregrine Falcon is one of the swiftest raptors there are and is making a come back in the cities on high ledges feeding on the plentiful pigeons. Click on the bird below. I also grew up a "service brat" living all over the world and Peregine fits that as well see the following definitions.

Peregrine is listed in the dictionary as;
Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin peregrnus, wandering, pilgrim tending to travel and change settlements frequently; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "

Also see;
Peregrination
Per`e*gri*na"tion, n. [L. peregrinatio: cf. F. p['e]r['e]grination.] A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries. ``His peregrination abroad.'' --Bacon.

“Peregrine” and I tend to wander aimlessly wherever the wind takes us. 

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 John G- "PEREGRINE" C25-#4762 FK

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Doug
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Response Posted - 02/20/2002 : 20:33:55

Once the admiral decided were going to be a boating family and started to understand the concept of "Twofootitis" we named our C22 Domino Effect. Our C25 was named Noeta because it sound vaguely native and also is kind of a riddle. People often ask what Noeta means. I just tell them to spell it.

Doug - #1913 Noeta

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rkowalke
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Response Posted - 02/20/2002 : 20:54:38

We simply got a sheet of paper and filled it up with names that came to mind.
My wife likes music and I love to sail so we eventually through the process of elimination ended up with SEANOTE, which fit our little 25' Capri.
Maybe our larger boat will be name SEACHORD or something that sounds good.
Haven't decided yet but will when we successfully sell ours and move on up to the 27' or 30' Catalina depending on the deal.

Robert
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Douglas
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Response Posted - 02/20/2002 : 22:04:43

Boats usually being refered to in the female gender I picked Wind Lass and the dink is called Wench.

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Bristle
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Response Posted - 02/20/2002 : 22:15:51

Passage was Passage when we bought her... The Admiral thought that was good enough--sort of our "passage" into yachtdom (from daysailing, board sailing, racing, etc.) I was interested in doing our own thing, but I think she was actually not happy about the renaming ceremony she'd heard about! Next time...

Dave Bristle, 1985 C-25 SR-FK #5032 "Passage" in CT

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 02/20/2002 : 22:40:01

I started this same thread about two years ago (guess) and it was one of the most popular. Flying Wasp is the name of Judge Smails sloop in Caddy Shack and it is a movie both I and my co-owner quote all day long.

dw

Duane Wolff
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On the Hard for another Winter
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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 02/20/2002 : 23:27:04

As all you "oldies" are aware (but the "newbies" may not) we had a C22 called "Bluewind". When she sunk we got much static from the "old salts" in our Club. When we bought our C25 we made a pre-emptive strike against all the rude comments and named her "This Side Up" (with an arrow pointing upwards on each side of the name - just like on large appliance cartons)<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
Derek

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Mark Maxwell
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Response Posted - 02/21/2002 : 02:06:29

Hi Steve,
Here's a link to the thread that Duane started almost a year ago on this subject. Make a pot of coffee and get comfy.......there's alot to read <img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>
http://www.trailersailor.com/webbbs/catalina25/archive/index.cgi?read=10522

Mark-
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'Impulse'
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Ed Montague
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Response Posted - 02/21/2002 : 03:09:31

Our first named boat was 'Popsicle Toes' after our first ever sail on her in the middle of March and spending a great amount of time turtled. We had on only jeans and t-shirts. On the way home my recent bride threatened divorce, the FM radio station was playing a song about cold feet in love using the term Popsicle Toes, an apt discription of our feet and my wifes impression of Hobie 16 sailing.

My wife's family has a long history of ranching and farming. Me being the city boy, would tease her when having fun by shouting Yahoo. Pretty soon it became a term we would shout or mutter for all occasions. A term that could mean true joy or if muttered, just the opposite. When I came home a few years ago and told her that I had just purchased a Catalina 25 she shouted Yahoo and meant it joyously. The rest is history.

My suggestion to those of you buying a boat is to not be in a big hurry to name her. Sometimes the personality of the boat isn't apparent until you get to know her. And of course, if the boat comes with a name already and is totally not you, you get the added fun of name change ceremony. have Fun.

Ed Montague on 'Yahoo'
1978 #765 SK, Stnd, Dinette

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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 02/21/2002 : 12:28:09

I agree with Ed about not getting in a hurry... it may be, that the right name will find the boat...rather than be conjured.

I struggled for a year or so...with several suggestion from the family....though none seemed to really fit...

Then one day I was reflecting on two great heroes in my life...my father and grandfather...both Richards and wished for a way to express gratitude. R&R also fit the popular military term which described what sailing and the boat offered...so my boat got a double fitting name.

Arlyn C-250 W/B #224

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John Mason
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Response Posted - 02/21/2002 : 13:34:38

When we bought our boat, I did the brain-racking for that perfect name, but nothing really stuck. Then my wife began to do the same in russian (she's Ukrainian), but nothing. So we quit.

Then one day she was telling me a legendary story about a beautiful girl that all the men in the town tried to court. But she rebuffed them telling them that the man she would marry would arrive in a ship with red sails, just as her dream had fortold. Years later, and all the townspeople thinking she was a little crazy, a man comes into the pub where she was working and asks about her. He's told to forget her, she's waiting for some prince with a ship with red sails. He happens to be a prince from a far off land and his ship happens to have red sails. You can guess the rest.

So I asked her the name of the story. Ali Paroosa. And what was the name of the prince's ship. Ali Paroosa. And while she is beautiful and would be the first to tell you I'm no prince<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>, our meeting had some similarities to the story. Ali Paroosa is russian for red sails. Now I just have to buy red sails<img src=icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle>.

John Mason - Ali Paroosa
1982 - FK/SR #3290

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RL
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Response Posted - 02/21/2002 : 15:16:34

When we got 'Free Spirit' we did considerable research and discovered all the bad luck that will befall those who change the name of a boat that has not been more than 50% restored. Not believing in bad luck we were able to a couple of ceremonies to be performed at a boat name changing. However we could never find a virgin and we weren’t about to destroy a good bottle of $7.00 champaign. So we just stayed the "Free Spirit". However we are looking for a name from history of a boat that was involved in a mutiny or piracy, where the crew was lost and resorted to cannibalism to survive. This may be proper and fitting name to consider, however we're still looking for the virgin and someone to spring for the champaign

Free Spirit

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MattL
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Response Posted - 02/21/2002 : 15:40:12

When my dad and I got our old boat, he came up with a great name. His name was Harry and mine Matt combined made Matt - A - Harry. Now with our new boat. Our two sons are Casey and Everett. My wife is more into horses and thinking of a name to relate to that I came up with E C Rider.
Matt

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 02/21/2002 : 18:05:47

RL "the crew was lost and resorted to cannibalism to survive."

If memory serves me correctly, there was a ship called the "Essex" which was sunk by a whale, one lifeboat was left and the crew drifted for days and resorted to cannibalism to survive. (This may have been Melville's inspiration for "Moby Dick")
Derek (who always has enough food & beer on board...)

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John G-
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Response Posted - 02/21/2002 : 18:34:18

Derek – I was intrigued by your post so with a little help from Google I found this book review.

"....Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex (The Lyons Press; 141pp; $12.95) .....the original 1821 narrative of the ramming and sinking of the whaler Essex in the South Pacific-which is said to have inspired Melville to write Moby Dick.
The Lyon Press 1999 edition includes not only Owen Chase's version but those of two other survivors of the incident, the Captain of the Essex and Thomas Chapple, one of three crew members who fetched up on Henderson Island. The slight volume also includes a facsimile of Melville's notes on these first hand reports.
In an informative introduction Paul Lyons states that "two facts stood out in the story of the Essex. The ship had been stove, seemingly deliberately, by a whale, and in the aftermath the crew had resorted to cannibalism to survive. The first fact was the more remarkable, since in the history of whaling up until that time there had been no recorded instance of a whale maliciously attacking a ship…while cannibalism was not unprecedented." Naslund's accounts of Una and her friends in the whaleboat appear to be based directly on these reports. Imagine what Melville might have produced if he had been diverted by the subject of the "last horrible extremity." 

[url="http://www.peregrinefund.org/"]<img src="http://www.peregrinefund.org/images/intro_mid_image.GIF" border=0>[/url]
 John G- "PEREGRINE" C25-#4762 FK

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Shelby
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Response Posted - 02/21/2002 : 19:36:58

This is pretty boring, but I was told "Third S" came from the three sports the previous owner loved. Skiing, Sailing and sex (not sure of the order). Even though my wife and I have scuba to add, we like the three chosen.

Shelby on "Third S" '82 C25 #3208 SKSR

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Response Posted - 02/21/2002 : 20:29:16

Here in Oklanoma the summer temps get into the 95-100 range and sunny. We do our sailing in the evening returning about 11 pm. We do not get a sunburn this way instead we get a Moonburn...So we named our boat "Moonburn"

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William Matley
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Response Posted - 02/21/2002 : 21:31:32

Chortle was Chortle when I bought her and it seemed to me that she didn't want to change, so she remains some place between a grin and a giggle.

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MattL
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Response Posted - 02/21/2002 : 23:39:56

John G,
A friend of mine use to have an Essex automobile. The story I heard was that the car got its name because your essex when you drive in it.
Matt

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 02/22/2002 : 00:25:02

John G. - thanks for your confirmation. It's nice to know that my old memory still works...even if I can't find my car keys<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
Derek

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jguyot
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Response Posted - 02/22/2002 : 18:18:41

We've had a hard time trying to decide on a name. Our last boat we had for over 2 years and just couldn't come up with a name we could both agree on. We have just enjoyed this boat so much more, that one day we just said "this is the life" Since my wife is "French"; she said how about "Sail La Vie" (Loosely Translated..... "Sailing's the life" <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

Jerry Guyot
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Phredde
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Response Posted - 02/22/2002 : 21:44:24

Phredde was Phredde when I bought her with a partner. We pronounce it Freddy, but who knows where it came from any why, it just seems to fit - for now.

I've since bought out my partner, so Phredde's all mine. But after a few more orders to CD I'm sure to be at that magical 50% mark and with or without a virgin, or a partner, be able to safely re-christen her what she's always been: Happy Hours

Till then, you can call me Phredde <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

Phredde
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Rick Heaverly 86 C25 5382
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Response Posted - 02/23/2002 : 04:43:44

Invictus
Comes from a poem by William Earnest Henley the Admiral came across.

Out of the night that covers me
Black as the pit from pole to pole
I thank whatever gods maybe
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody but unbowed.

Beyond this place of rath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate
How charged with punishment the scroll
I am the Master of my fate
I am the Captain of my soul.

Rick Heaverly

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 02/23/2002 : 10:06:49

Rick - I always thought that poem was by William Blake (who was a blind atheist). Can someone check on that while I go sailing....<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
Derek, heading for "This Side Up"

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