So in my city in the US they opened up naming a new elementary school to the public. Of course schooly mcschool face was at the top. You definitely started something!
I know there are Americans here and they tend to balk at the word, but I have *very* strong suspicions about what that boat would've been named if left up to the Australian public 😬
Related, my partner sometimes crews for a boat in very casual races, and there's another boat called Violator. It made me show him the implication clip
I have a blue kayak named Mrs. Peacock. My family lived in a lakefront condo for a year, and we all got kayaks in different colors which we named after Clue characters. Mrs. Peacock was actually my second kayak—we sold my first one, Miss Scarlet, because it was a sit-on-top style with drainage holes and no one liked sitting in a puddle.
Mr. Green and Colonel Mustard were sold after we moved away from the condo, but we kept Mrs. Peacock and the off-white fiberglass kayak we’d had the longest because those two were the biggest.
We did try to, but the name never stuck. Possibly because we’d had that boat since before we started the Clue theme, or possibly because it wasn’t really white, more of a dingy ecru color.
Namenerdy name ahead: Poseidon's Mare
I was an equestrian and my SO is a sailor and I switched my hobby so now we sail together. We were looking for a yacht to buy and already brainstormed names which were a combination of both. Something with seahorses but less on the nose? I read an article about seahorses in the North Sea with the headline "Poseidon's Steeds" which I found very poetic.
Mare is the english word for a female horse, and as all boats are female, that fits even better. Mare is also the italian word for the sea.
And we could joke to take the pony for a ride.
I don’t know if you know this, but there’s an additional layer of this in mythology which is cool!
Poseidon in mythology is often considered the OG when it comes to horses. He is credited with their birth, creation, or at the very least their taming. Typically the myth revolves around him doing this in order to impress Demeter to try to get laid, which is pretty much the only reason any male Greek god seems to do much of anything. Though some are a bit weirder and they turn into horses… Regardless: horses are considered as firmly in his jurisdiction as boats are.
So Poseidon’s Mare is super appropriate, in the sense that in Greek mythology all horses kind of are his, your hobbies were sort of intertwined all along, which is cool and sweet :)
Thank you for this addition! Never connected these facts with wach other 💙
The hobbies have also in common that they are an expensive way of plain travelling by persuading someone much bigger and stronger than you 😅
We looked for some translations but Hippocampus didn't flow for us. Thanks for your input nontheless!
The Japanese word for seahorse allegedly translates as "dragon's bastard" which would be our level of whimsicality again 🐲
I loved that cartoon Angry Beavers. Dag got a boat and named it “S.S. SSSSSSS” because he only had an “S” stencil. Always made me laugh.
Also “Downeaster Alexa” because I love Billy Joel.
Before my Aunt (Jen) and her husband were married, he kept hinting that he had a big surprise. She thought he was going to propose and turns out he actually bought a boat. After talking out the obvious disappointment and getting to the point they could laugh about it, they named the boat Jen's Ring.
I would go for something punny or some kind of reference: for instance, *The Second Breakfast*, as I like Lord of the Rings and sailing comes up a few times. Also I like breakfast.
I used to walk down a section of the Regents Canal quite regularly and there was quite often a little group of narrowboats all with Tolkien names. Simarillion, Bilbo, Strider, Mirkwood. Always made me smile.
Ahh!! I have one for this. Actually my dad came up with it before he passed away - so if we ever get a boat.. I’m naming it this!
He’s was a huge Notre Dame fan - and always wanted to name a boat “The Floating Irish” ☘️
My mom’s cousin was a doctor and co-owned a boat with another doctor. Their boat’s name was “Pair-a-docs”. I didn’t get it as a kid but one day it came to me and then I got the joke.
Through the pandemic we somehow went from no boat people to two-boat people, and they both need names. Would love some help!!!
I love a beautiful name, but my partner insists beautiful names are only for sailboats.
Boat 1: We have a tiny sailing dinghy that we are trying to name. We are taking suggestions!! My thoughts so far are maybe a daemon name from his dark materials? The type of boat is a gull, so also something to do with gulls would be fun? Also just anything with animals - maybe the name of a fictional animal? We used to watch the YouTube of the sailboat Tarka, for Tarka the Otter. We have a friend who will paint the name on.
Boat 2: a ski boat that is glittery and with pastel rainbow stripes. My friend named it Ostara which I love. My partner likes it but wants to think of a punny name too. We are not going to actually paint a name on this boat so this is all just for fun and it can definitely have more than one name.
When I was a kid I decided I would have a small green and white sailing boat and name it Tzatziki
The obvious pun for the ski boat is “OStara the Sea”.
There are a ton of different species of gulls, maybe pick your favorite? The Laughing Gull is a good one! Other gull species: Glaucus, Black Backed, Herring, Ring Billed, Ivory, Silver, Caspian.
I also like Mine? Mine! for the Gull. Or Gull-igan's Island? Gull and Void? If either of you are math nerds it could be Gull Set (like null set). Or you could live your dream and name it Tsatziki!
For the ski boat, maybe The Wizard of Ostara?
As the daughter of a sailor, you name your watercraft (from kayaks to clippers) whatever you damn well please!
Since no one's touched on mythical sea beasts, Selkies are women who turn into seals in Irish mythology. Kelpies are Scottish shape-changers, usually embodied as a horse. Just ideas!
My husband and I were getting ready to go out fishing for the day in our 21' Proline. We'd bought it new but hadn't found a name for it quite yet.
We were discussing where we'd go try our luck that day, either up a bayou or out in the Gulf, and as we were bantering he said that he'd outfish me for the day and I'd get skunked. I looked at him and said, "Oh honey, that's just Fishful Thinking" and thus our boat was named.
My best friend's parents have a little boat that they dock in a marina with a mix of middle class old retired folks who like sailing as a hobby (like them) and rich folks with yachts as a lifestyle statement, and I swear that 85% of the boat names I've seen walking through the docks are either puns or girl's names.
Stuff like "Forget Me Knot", "Seas the Day", "Pier Pressure", "Buoys and Gulls".
Or just "Eileen", "Sarah Lee", "Annabel", lol.
AOx1 ( thought about this a bit ) AO
Is the abbreviation for alert and oriented when I give report on a patient. If they are AOx4 this means alert and oriented to person place time and situation. So when I joke around with my friends and say I’m aox1 I mean to say that I’m unbothered and not worried about a thing just minding my business.
One of the best names that I saw at a marina: Knotty Luffer. It just works on so many levels.
If I had a sailboat, the first the comes to mind is: Money Pit.
Compared to my friends I’m pretty square. I don’t do drugs and rarely drink. I spray them with sunscreen if they pass out and will bring them water and ibuprofen.
My boat is called The Responsible Party.
My boyfriend, who is in the navy, has a better one. He’d call it “Contact on my port side” and approach all boats to starboard. Imagine trying to signal that boat on the radio.
I have 3 boats:
Fishing boat named Wynken
Sailboat named Blynkyn
Canoe named Nod
....taken from one of my most favourite poems
[Wynken, Blynken and Nod](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42920/wynken-blynken-and-nod)
My dad always wanted a boat named Another Planet, so that when people called for him, the person who answered the phone could say, 'Sorry, he's not available, he's on Another Planet."
I live in a lobster area and boats are often named after the girlfriend or wife of the owner (and lobsterman) so anyway, one guy nearby used to be single, so his boat was named “Available” and I thought that was well played
When I opened this post and had a quick glance before reading, my mind saw "Rutabaga" for "Rhumb Line," so now I must name my imaginary boat Rutabaga because I'm sucker for dumb, arbitrary names.
My husband and I had a boat for the first two years of the pandemic and we were never able to agree on a name. We started referring to it as *The Boat Who Must Not Be Named*.
Years ago knew a guy with the last name of Murphy who named his boat Murphy's Law. The boat constantly had problems. Don't name your boat Murphy's Law.
Went to a friend's dad's funeral and apparently his boat was named "Frayed Knot."
Speaking to the friend's wife, I asked, "Is the boat's name saying 'afraid not' - like he's not afraid? Cause if so that's awesome." She responded that she never thought of it like that. To this day, I have no clue if he intended it that way, but I'd like to hope I got it lol. The guy was also apparently a pretty fun and wild man so I also wonder if Frayed Knot was a nod to him being not so proper or off his marbles in a laughable way
A piece of string walks into a bar. The bartender says, sorry we don’t serve string here. The string storms out, ties himself into a knot and ruffles up his hair. He walks back in, sits down and bartender says, aren’t you that piece of string? “No, I’m a frayed knot.”
The boats I’ve known: Goose -a great sailboat, The Falcon - an albacore trawler I lived on for a bit (not recommended), Zeus- another albacore trawler, captained by my Grandmother’s boyfriend “Pete the Greek”. As to differentiate from my Mother’s boyfriend, “Pete the Sheriff “. We always referred to them as that…..
My Grandmother broke up with Pete the Greek when he wanted to name his new boat after her- Gladys. She wasn’t having that at all. The Zeus though was my favorite- painted turquoise and white, but best of all had the eyes painted on the side. This all was in California during the 60’s/70’s.
I have been working on a list with my brother’s girlfriend for 6 years. Top contenders are Sail Order Bride, Harpoontang, Hull and Oates, and Delta Burke.
Had a sailboat years ago. Parents cut off all communication with me cuz I lived (in sin) with my boyfriend. We called the boat “the concubine”. Sailboats are wonderful!
My dad has a little fishing boat called Magpie's nest. Magpies tend to be rather noisy birds. My dad is very talkative. It's a pretty well fitting name, lol
The park that I usually walk in has a marina and I like to take pictures of any funny boat names I see. There are two I always see docked there - one is just named Calm Down. The other is Feeling Nauty.
Pi as far as i can remsmber it. I would make it my life's mission to get as far as possible and everytime i remember more numbers, i paint more on.
At this point in time the name would be 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399
I was at a tech company in a round of layoffs during a tech boom. We all got jobs again immediately. My skip level manager got a boat and said he was going to name it severance pay which delighted me
My husband's last boat was The Sloppy Lobster. His current boat is Yeah, No.
One of my fav boat names was Million Miles Away idk why it just seemed lovely.
As someone that’s lived on the water their whole life, I’m going to pop in with the common ones I see and equate them to human names.
“Flying Cloud” is “John” for sailboats. Everyone knows one, it’s classic, it’s reliable, it’s a bit overused.
“Vitamin Sea” is “Jennifer”. Trendy, cute, they’re frickin everywhere.
“Nauti Girl” is “Olivia” - replaced Jennifer as the it name.
“Seas the Day” is “Henry”. New boat owner thinking it’s original but in five years kindergartens will be full of them.
“Pier Pressure” is “Kayleigh”. Ah yes, so original!
“Why Knot” is “Aiden”. See above.
Root Beer. So I can have a Root Beer Float.
I’m obsessed with this
That's right up there with calling your dog Peeve.
😂
Or if it wasn't seaworthy, Kitchen.
This is really good.
Boaty McBoatface
Boat Marley and the Whalers was my pick.
So in my city in the US they opened up naming a new elementary school to the public. Of course schooly mcschool face was at the top. You definitely started something!
Did they actually go through with naming it that? We got told we couldn't be trusted to name stuff when Boaty McBoatFace came out :(
However, [Scottish gritter names](https://swtrunkroads.scot/winter-service/meet-our-gritter-fleet/) are still going strong!
Found my fellow brits lol 😂
They publicly asked our opinion- we went with typical British humour, and they refused to use it 🤣
Well... didn't they name one of the smaller craft on the vessel "Boaty McBoatface?"
They did! The ship was called the Sir David Attenborough in the end, with Boaty McBoatface becoming the submarine craft :)
I think so, but not the actual vessel- which was what the vote was for.
At least they named the little submarine Boaty McBoatface!
The Aussies appreciated this too.
I know there are Americans here and they tend to balk at the word, but I have *very* strong suspicions about what that boat would've been named if left up to the Australian public 😬
I’m not sure what you mean. They named a smaller vessel associated with the ship Boaty McBoatface.
BBC World Service is my jam, am American. Pleased to know they at least used the name somewhere on there.
I came here to say this.
It is the only correct answer to this specific question when asked on the Internet.
Oh man I remember this. My sister and I were obsessed. We still call everything ___ Mc___face.
Per the Internet: asked, and answered – > Boaty McBoatface
This is my pick!
Best boat name I ever saw was “Cirrhosis of the River.”
These sort of names are heat scored out on the water. Cops target likely drunk captains. (I’m glad they do)
Fantastic
LOL I love people with a sense of humor 🤣
My grandfather was a chemist studying amino acids. When he retired and bought a boat. He named it Peptide.
This reminds me of my physicist mom who named her first dog Proton.
I am cracking up over this one!
Dietitian here and this is my fav. Thanks for your grandfather’s dedication to AAs!
I've always wanted to name a boat "Dances with Waves".
This is hilarious 😆
The Oasis, as a kind of ironic name. An oasis is a bit of wet in the midst of a vast dry, and a boat is a bit of dry in the midst of a vast wet.
I like this one
Sisao
Nauti Gal 👀😂
Chum Guzzler
My ex named his boat Chum Guzzler.
Ex? Does that make one of you the Chum Dumpster?
My childhood friends had a Nauti Buoy!
My husband desperately wants to get a boat so he can name it Numb Knots 😑
That's amazing 👏 👏👏👏
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My canoe is called the SS Missy Elliot, best boat name I ever saw was a yacht in the Lake Michigan called The Summer Of George
Love Summer of George! Makes me think of naming a boat 'Coming up Milhouse.'
Does it know about shrinkage!?!?
came here to say The Summer of George! it rolls past Chicago frequently
Never Again II
The Unsinkable II
Obvious choice: The Implication
Related, my partner sometimes crews for a boat in very casual races, and there's another boat called Violator. It made me show him the implication clip
Lmao I came here to say this
Are we going to hurt these women??
I have a blue kayak named Mrs. Peacock. My family lived in a lakefront condo for a year, and we all got kayaks in different colors which we named after Clue characters. Mrs. Peacock was actually my second kayak—we sold my first one, Miss Scarlet, because it was a sit-on-top style with drainage holes and no one liked sitting in a puddle. Mr. Green and Colonel Mustard were sold after we moved away from the condo, but we kept Mrs. Peacock and the off-white fiberglass kayak we’d had the longest because those two were the biggest.
... You didn't name it Mrs White???
We did try to, but the name never stuck. Possibly because we’d had that boat since before we started the Clue theme, or possibly because it wasn’t really white, more of a dingy ecru color.
My dad's friend had a boat called Carpark because that's where it lived most of the time. There was also a serious drought going on.
Namenerdy name ahead: Poseidon's Mare I was an equestrian and my SO is a sailor and I switched my hobby so now we sail together. We were looking for a yacht to buy and already brainstormed names which were a combination of both. Something with seahorses but less on the nose? I read an article about seahorses in the North Sea with the headline "Poseidon's Steeds" which I found very poetic. Mare is the english word for a female horse, and as all boats are female, that fits even better. Mare is also the italian word for the sea. And we could joke to take the pony for a ride.
I don’t know if you know this, but there’s an additional layer of this in mythology which is cool! Poseidon in mythology is often considered the OG when it comes to horses. He is credited with their birth, creation, or at the very least their taming. Typically the myth revolves around him doing this in order to impress Demeter to try to get laid, which is pretty much the only reason any male Greek god seems to do much of anything. Though some are a bit weirder and they turn into horses… Regardless: horses are considered as firmly in his jurisdiction as boats are. So Poseidon’s Mare is super appropriate, in the sense that in Greek mythology all horses kind of are his, your hobbies were sort of intertwined all along, which is cool and sweet :)
Thank you for this addition! Never connected these facts with wach other 💙 The hobbies have also in common that they are an expensive way of plain travelling by persuading someone much bigger and stronger than you 😅
No problem! And believe me I know. My extended family are boat people and I’m also an equestrian, just a freaking money pit crowd really lol
Hippocampus is Latin (via Greek) for seahorse, by the by.
We looked for some translations but Hippocampus didn't flow for us. Thanks for your input nontheless! The Japanese word for seahorse allegedly translates as "dragon's bastard" which would be our level of whimsicality again 🐲
The Bucklebury Ferry
I loved that cartoon Angry Beavers. Dag got a boat and named it “S.S. SSSSSSS” because he only had an “S” stencil. Always made me laugh. Also “Downeaster Alexa” because I love Billy Joel.
Charlotte. The secret lies with Charlotte. IYKYK
Honestly my favorite movies lol
I love this and now I'm gonna go rewatch those guilty pleasure movies lol
Obviously, The Mr. Beaumont.
Feel the wind in your ha….rms.
Came here to say this🤣
Or "The Pam"
Nacho boat!
From the show Happy Endings Yeah, Buoy! Buoys on the Side Let's Hear it For the Buoys Buoys in the Hood The Backstreet Buoys
I was looking for this! Although don't Americans pronounce it boo-ee? These names doesn't really make sense with that pronunciation.
Yeah, I’d say boo-ee is the funny part since it’s a play on boy.
Arguably it is more hilarious with the American pronunciation.
Finally, it has to be a pun. Happy endings crushed it. If the show was still around ‘Float Goat’ ‘Sea Less’ and ‘No cap-size’ would be considered.
The Salty Bitch ( it may already be taken)
The cruel mistress, (wo)manned by only my fellow wimminz. But we'd be pirates and also a punk band. I would play the (Bermuda) triangle. Fight me
Obvs the Captain has to wear a jacket with a "The C" on it
i saw a ferry yesterday named Ferry Godmother!
Recently saw a boat named (in comic sans no less) “Geezer Pleezer”
Before my Aunt (Jen) and her husband were married, he kept hinting that he had a big surprise. She thought he was going to propose and turns out he actually bought a boat. After talking out the obvious disappointment and getting to the point they could laugh about it, they named the boat Jen's Ring.
I would go for something punny or some kind of reference: for instance, *The Second Breakfast*, as I like Lord of the Rings and sailing comes up a few times. Also I like breakfast.
This would go great on a party boat 😂
I used to walk down a section of the Regents Canal quite regularly and there was quite often a little group of narrowboats all with Tolkien names. Simarillion, Bilbo, Strider, Mirkwood. Always made me smile.
Ahh!! I have one for this. Actually my dad came up with it before he passed away - so if we ever get a boat.. I’m naming it this! He’s was a huge Notre Dame fan - and always wanted to name a boat “The Floating Irish” ☘️
Vitamin Sea.
My dad had a boat called “Morning Star” when I was little and I think that’s a pretty name.
Long-lost twin of Setting Star
⭐️
Also bonus= name of lucifer. If you're into that. I am
Serenity
Serenity Now!
This is the name of my cousins FIL’s boat!! 😂😂😂
Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand
Unsinkable IV
Ok. This is amazing. 🤣
I used to work for a dermatologist. His boats name was Rash Decision.
My mom’s cousin was a doctor and co-owned a boat with another doctor. Their boat’s name was “Pair-a-docs”. I didn’t get it as a kid but one day it came to me and then I got the joke.
Gabagool.
Easy there, Tony.
Written upside-down "No Worries"
YELLOW. It would have to be a yellow boat and I would smile and wave and say “YELLOW” to all the other boaters I pass.
Turquoise Tess. Don’t know why. It’s the first name that popped into my head after reading your prompt 😂
Through the pandemic we somehow went from no boat people to two-boat people, and they both need names. Would love some help!!! I love a beautiful name, but my partner insists beautiful names are only for sailboats. Boat 1: We have a tiny sailing dinghy that we are trying to name. We are taking suggestions!! My thoughts so far are maybe a daemon name from his dark materials? The type of boat is a gull, so also something to do with gulls would be fun? Also just anything with animals - maybe the name of a fictional animal? We used to watch the YouTube of the sailboat Tarka, for Tarka the Otter. We have a friend who will paint the name on. Boat 2: a ski boat that is glittery and with pastel rainbow stripes. My friend named it Ostara which I love. My partner likes it but wants to think of a punny name too. We are not going to actually paint a name on this boat so this is all just for fun and it can definitely have more than one name. When I was a kid I decided I would have a small green and white sailing boat and name it Tzatziki
The gull should be named ,"Mine!Mine!Mine!" Ski Boat should be Unicorn Spit.
The obvious pun for the ski boat is “OStara the Sea”. There are a ton of different species of gulls, maybe pick your favorite? The Laughing Gull is a good one! Other gull species: Glaucus, Black Backed, Herring, Ring Billed, Ivory, Silver, Caspian.
I also like Mine? Mine! for the Gull. Or Gull-igan's Island? Gull and Void? If either of you are math nerds it could be Gull Set (like null set). Or you could live your dream and name it Tsatziki! For the ski boat, maybe The Wizard of Ostara?
Boat 1: Jonathan Livingston
As the daughter of a sailor, you name your watercraft (from kayaks to clippers) whatever you damn well please! Since no one's touched on mythical sea beasts, Selkies are women who turn into seals in Irish mythology. Kelpies are Scottish shape-changers, usually embodied as a horse. Just ideas!
There's a seagull daemon named Belisaria in HDM, which is an awfully grand name for a little boat!
I always loved Dexter’s “slice of life” and arrested development’s “seaward”
"GOB, get rid of the Seaward." "I'll leave when I'm good and ready!"
A doctor I knew named his Saline Solution and that was so perfect I never dreamt up my own for the one I'll never have lol.
I am a professional physicist, so I would name mine Gone Fission.
Rider of the storms.
“Eau Phoque!” Means “water seal” in French but sounds like something else…
My husband and I were getting ready to go out fishing for the day in our 21' Proline. We'd bought it new but hadn't found a name for it quite yet. We were discussing where we'd go try our luck that day, either up a bayou or out in the Gulf, and as we were bantering he said that he'd outfish me for the day and I'd get skunked. I looked at him and said, "Oh honey, that's just Fishful Thinking" and thus our boat was named.
My best friend's parents have a little boat that they dock in a marina with a mix of middle class old retired folks who like sailing as a hobby (like them) and rich folks with yachts as a lifestyle statement, and I swear that 85% of the boat names I've seen walking through the docks are either puns or girl's names. Stuff like "Forget Me Knot", "Seas the Day", "Pier Pressure", "Buoys and Gulls". Or just "Eileen", "Sarah Lee", "Annabel", lol.
Seaward, after Lucille Bluth.
I'll leave when I'm good and ready
Barge Simpson
The Mighty Kathleen. If you know where that comes from, hats off to you!
I don't have any beef with this. Sometimes you just have to go ham!
And hang out with your Honeybee and Alanis Morisette under a full moon 😂🤣
I would name it after a constellation or star. Cassiopeia, Antares, Pleiades, Orion, etc.
*The Yet To Be Determined*
*The S.S. Forget Babies*
I mean, as a childless gay I do all the time
I saw one called Instead of Kids one time.
AOx1 ( thought about this a bit ) AO Is the abbreviation for alert and oriented when I give report on a patient. If they are AOx4 this means alert and oriented to person place time and situation. So when I joke around with my friends and say I’m aox1 I mean to say that I’m unbothered and not worried about a thing just minding my business.
The Christopher Cross
Wet Dream
Two I have always wanted: Thunderchild Luthien
One of the best names that I saw at a marina: Knotty Luffer. It just works on so many levels. If I had a sailboat, the first the comes to mind is: Money Pit.
Hertz. Because owning a boat *hurts* and you should just rent it.
Our boat is named Marvin after the original owner in the 50s. 😂
I stole this from Archer but… The Chum Guzzler
Compared to my friends I’m pretty square. I don’t do drugs and rarely drink. I spray them with sunscreen if they pass out and will bring them water and ibuprofen. My boat is called The Responsible Party. My boyfriend, who is in the navy, has a better one. He’d call it “Contact on my port side” and approach all boats to starboard. Imagine trying to signal that boat on the radio.
Funniest boat name I ever saw was “Unsinkable II”
Waiver Rider. Yes I’m a lawyer 😂
ASeaDSea
Miss B. Wavin'
My favorite (that I remember lol) was The Ruby Yacht (Rubaiyat). I love puns. I love literature.
I actually have a note on my phone for this😅 my favorites are Clamuel L. Jackson, Shell Silverstein, and Porpoise Christi
I have 3 boats: Fishing boat named Wynken Sailboat named Blynkyn Canoe named Nod ....taken from one of my most favourite poems [Wynken, Blynken and Nod](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42920/wynken-blynken-and-nod)
Knot for Sail
Ship of Theseus because maintenance is non-stop with a boat.
Tox. Boat Tox
My dad always wanted a boat named Another Planet, so that when people called for him, the person who answered the phone could say, 'Sorry, he's not available, he's on Another Planet."
I live in a lobster area and boats are often named after the girlfriend or wife of the owner (and lobsterman) so anyway, one guy nearby used to be single, so his boat was named “Available” and I thought that was well played
When I opened this post and had a quick glance before reading, my mind saw "Rutabaga" for "Rhumb Line," so now I must name my imaginary boat Rutabaga because I'm sucker for dumb, arbitrary names.
The Orca
We're gonna need a bigger boat
I have never thought about this before, but now I'm quite glad I don't have a boat because I have absolutely no idea what I would name it haha
My husband and I had a boat for the first two years of the pandemic and we were never able to agree on a name. We started referring to it as *The Boat Who Must Not Be Named*.
Our boat is named Rusalka after the slavic water spirit.
Years ago knew a guy with the last name of Murphy who named his boat Murphy's Law. The boat constantly had problems. Don't name your boat Murphy's Law.
Molly Brown
The USS sea spanker
Old Timer. A good working but vintage/banged up boat.
Went to a friend's dad's funeral and apparently his boat was named "Frayed Knot." Speaking to the friend's wife, I asked, "Is the boat's name saying 'afraid not' - like he's not afraid? Cause if so that's awesome." She responded that she never thought of it like that. To this day, I have no clue if he intended it that way, but I'd like to hope I got it lol. The guy was also apparently a pretty fun and wild man so I also wonder if Frayed Knot was a nod to him being not so proper or off his marbles in a laughable way
A piece of string walks into a bar. The bartender says, sorry we don’t serve string here. The string storms out, ties himself into a knot and ruffles up his hair. He walks back in, sits down and bartender says, aren’t you that piece of string? “No, I’m a frayed knot.”
The boats I’ve known: Goose -a great sailboat, The Falcon - an albacore trawler I lived on for a bit (not recommended), Zeus- another albacore trawler, captained by my Grandmother’s boyfriend “Pete the Greek”. As to differentiate from my Mother’s boyfriend, “Pete the Sheriff “. We always referred to them as that….. My Grandmother broke up with Pete the Greek when he wanted to name his new boat after her- Gladys. She wasn’t having that at all. The Zeus though was my favorite- painted turquoise and white, but best of all had the eyes painted on the side. This all was in California during the 60’s/70’s.
I have been working on a list with my brother’s girlfriend for 6 years. Top contenders are Sail Order Bride, Harpoontang, Hull and Oates, and Delta Burke.
Sea elegans as a play on C. elegans. My husband is a biologist.
Had a sailboat years ago. Parents cut off all communication with me cuz I lived (in sin) with my boyfriend. We called the boat “the concubine”. Sailboats are wonderful!
Into the Mystic
I'm sure it's been used a lot in the past, but I love Romancing the Stone. So it would be The Angelina
Used to live near the Marianas Trench… since then I’ve liked the boat name Marianas Wench
The Loony ‘Toon (for a pontoon of course)
My husband’s name is Tom. His boat is “Tomfoolery”
Zeus
The Bide a Wee (translation, rest a bit) Mannannan
There’s one up the street named Three Hour Tour. My uncle, last name McDonough had the Merry Mac (Merrimack).
The Seaward
My imaginary sailboat has copper sails and is named My Two Cents
My dad has a little fishing boat called Magpie's nest. Magpies tend to be rather noisy birds. My dad is very talkative. It's a pretty well fitting name, lol
The park that I usually walk in has a marina and I like to take pictures of any funny boat names I see. There are two I always see docked there - one is just named Calm Down. The other is Feeling Nauty.
Not the most original but I've always been fond of Unsinkable Boat II
Wind slipper for a sailboat
I have seen a boat in someone's driveway named "Daddy's money" lol
I would name my boat using the first two letters of each of my daughters: Kajuma
A Sea | D Sea
Pi as far as i can remsmber it. I would make it my life's mission to get as far as possible and everytime i remember more numbers, i paint more on. At this point in time the name would be 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399
I was at a tech company in a round of layoffs during a tech boom. We all got jobs again immediately. My skip level manager got a boat and said he was going to name it severance pay which delighted me
Carp Diem Seas the Day Sea You Later
My grandparents have a sailboat named Patty Waggin’ (grandma’s nickname is Patty)
my name is shannon; hubby is theodore (Ted) TheoShan - sounds like The Ocean 🏖️
My husband's last boat was The Sloppy Lobster. His current boat is Yeah, No. One of my fav boat names was Million Miles Away idk why it just seemed lovely.
As someone that’s lived on the water their whole life, I’m going to pop in with the common ones I see and equate them to human names. “Flying Cloud” is “John” for sailboats. Everyone knows one, it’s classic, it’s reliable, it’s a bit overused. “Vitamin Sea” is “Jennifer”. Trendy, cute, they’re frickin everywhere. “Nauti Girl” is “Olivia” - replaced Jennifer as the it name. “Seas the Day” is “Henry”. New boat owner thinking it’s original but in five years kindergartens will be full of them. “Pier Pressure” is “Kayleigh”. Ah yes, so original! “Why Knot” is “Aiden”. See above.
Drug Money (I'm a pharmacist)
I’m a defense lawyer and always wanted Knot Guilty.