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Frosty said:
Weebles,

I've noticed the same thing when perusing Yachtworld lately. Every once in a while I'll see a note in a listing that the current owner is "reserving the name" so you have to change it. But since as far as I know US states and even US Federal Documentation don't have a "there can only be one of X" rule, I'm not sure it's really meaningful (?) I mean, what's to stop the buyer from using the name over again?

(Not saying I'd be a jerk about it, but just not sure I understand "reserving" a name.)
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Looking at the mmsi logs, there are no restrictions on names as there are for race horses. All I can think of is that for some reason, an owner just doesn't want the name to survive him. In my friends case, the previous owner was buying the same brand, just next size bigger (went from Horizon 52 Power Cat to a PC60). So I guess he didn't want two Horizon PCs with same name floating around.

For the record, Quintessa or Quintessence are lousy names. Speaking of being mis spelled.

Shakey Reed doesn't do it for me. I'm reminded of the scene in Cool Hand Luke when a worker in a chain gang goes into the brush to relieve himself. He's say "shaking the branch, boss" to show he hadn't run off. Which Paul Newman eventually did anyway.
 
Naranda, has a nice sound to it and is unique. Personally we don't like cutsie-pie pun names.
 
caltexflanc said:
Naranda, has a nice sound to it and is unique. Personally we don't like cutsie-pie pun names.
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I don't either. But one comes to mind. I was a aboard a friend's boat and took a cut from the ICW to the Gulf. Clearly, it bore little resemblance to the charts and we were confused. A good Samaritan on a 45-foot MY hailed us and led us out. A retired doctor, his boat was named "No Patients."

BTW - when charts say "not recommended without local knowledge," its for a reason. Cut was down towards Boca Grande. I forget why we took the cut - bridge further down was broken or something so we took the cut rather than backtrack many miles.
 
Had a friend that was a defense attorney - named his after an earlier movie - "Dances with Plaintiffs"
 
I guess we who don't like "cute" or punny names all have our one exception. I got a chuckle out of name here on TF: "Loafs and Fishes" :lol:
 
How about “Reed Song”? Easy to say, easy to spell, pulls from your wife’s background and the sound she remembers...
 
Beaverlake said:
How about “Reed Song”? Easy to say, easy to spell, pulls from your wife’s background and the sound she remembers...
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That's nice, Beaverlake. As you say, simple -- two four-letter words -- unusual, and harks back to Shakey/Shaky Reed.
 
Sorry, but since you asked.. I don't really like any of them. We need a little more information about you to come up with a nice catchy name. What do you, or what did you do for a living, any hobbies, kids, wife name, where do you do your boating, etc.

Pete
 
Some words and their variations/bastardizations should always be avoided at all costs when naming a boat. Should be completely off limits. Anyone considering using these in their boat name should know that they are no longer funny (probably never were) and have been used by hundreds of thousands of other boaters. Here's a short list, far from comprehensive.



Sea (c, see, seize, seas etc.)
Fantasy (fantasea)
Reel (real, reely etc.)
Buoy
Gull (Guhl)
Nauti (Naughty, knottie etc.)
Knot (not, naut)
Mermaid
Fishy
Hooker
Lure
Sandy

For a catamaran any name that relates to two of something or to cats (the animal), or uses cat in the name (catastrophic, catatonic, double etc)


Hercules, as mentioned earlier, is a great name for a tug. There is a famous sportfish called "Finest Kind." I've always loved that name.


I'd also like to humbly submit our boat name, Morgan, as a good one. It is named after our now long departed lab, who I got as a pup the day I met my wife. She was with us for 17 years including the births and early childhoods of both our sons. It's only six letters, easy to pronounce and unusual. Also sounds sort of salty (I named the dog after the boat company). I don't like that some people associate it with a terrible brand of rum, but that can't be helped, I guess.
 
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Heck, just call her Nancy.
 
Thanks, some of you have talked me out of "shakey reed".

No to Nancy. She was my first wife and her grandfather was the engineer on Galloping Gertie.

By the way, how about "Galloping Gertie"? I live near Tacoma and it is quite funny.

Doug, I wanted to name my boat after Popcorn my dog. But I'd be sad every time I see the name when he passes.
 
Panic, times running out.

Anyone like, "Galloping Gertie" ?? "Kalakala"??

Nobody has it on USCG search site https://cgmix.uscg.mil/psix/psixsearch.aspx and search the vessel name.

Did I search right? Someone had to have their boat named this?



Most all know Galloping Gertie.

The Kalakala was beautiful old ferry in Seattle. I've always loved this vessel and collected all it's postcards.

Can't find out what Kalakala means though? Anyone in the PNW seen either of these names on a boat?
 
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My late husband and I bought a boat together before we got married. Each of us said the same thing so often--"it's my boat too!"--that we named it the only one thing we could have: MINE TOO


I've aways liked the name a lifelong sailor who finally decided it was time to switch to power gave his trawler: PLAN B


--Peggie
 
Reminds me of the finding Nemo "Mine" birds. I love those birds. Wonder how I can name my boat around them without saying "mine mine mine". They don't have names.

Love your book!
 
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Kon-Teaky
 
Tin Man said:
"FBI Surveillance"
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My son has taken to naming his wifi hotspot "FBI Surveillance Net 3" or some iteration... I have no idea whether it causes others to pause or not, but he gets a kick out of it. Hopefully no one ever decides to pinpoint the source and harass us over it!:eek:
 
Kon-Teaky great. BTW, my favorite ride at Disney was the "Tiki Room" as a kid. Maybe "Tiki Teaky"

No bites on "Galloping Gertie " or "Kalaka"?
 
Ducatihottie said:
Panic, times running out.

Anyone like, "Galloping Gertie" ?? "Kalakala"??

Nobody has it on USCG search site https://cgmix.uscg.mil/psix/psixsearch.aspx and search the vessel name.

Did I search right? Someone had to have their boat named this?



Most all know Galloping Gertie.

The Kalakala was beautiful old ferry in Seattle. I've always loved this vessel and collected all it's postcards.

Can't find out what Kalakala means though? Anyone in the PNW seen either of these names on a boat?
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From Wikipedia......"November 1934, William O. Thorniley, publicist for PSNC and president of the Olympic Peninsula Travel Association, named the new ferry Kalakala, which was said to mean "bird" in the Pacific Northwest Native American trade language"
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I love a lot of native American names, (primarily of places in PNW). This ones a ferry.

Would "Kalakala" be wrong? I like it better knowing what it means.

OR would it be sacrilege to borrow native American names and place them on a boat? This without permission? Note: I'm not native American.
 
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My all time favorite boat name story, true...shared with me by a dockmate of the owner:



George had always wanted a boat but his wife Ruth didn't. He tried for years to convince her to let him buy one, but the answer was always the same: NO! Finally, after much begging and pleading, she relented...on one condition: she would never have to go near it or even see it. George agreed...at last he finally had a boat. He named it RUTHLESS.


--Peggie
 
Ducatihottie said:
I love a lot of native American names, (primarily of places in PNW). This ones a ferry.

Would "Kalakala" be wrong? I like it better knowing what it means.

OR would it be sacrilege to borrow native American names and place them on a boat? This without permission? Note: I'm not native American.
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Klee Wyck, the name of my boat, is a phrase from First Nations language. Translates something like 'laughing one'.
 
Hi Peggy and Bill. I'm assuming "Bill" is not native American? Are there any problems naming boats after Native American places, folklore or things? Were so lucky here in Seattle and the art is everywhere.
 
Breaking this up into two posts. My dream and my boats name.


Today is the day.

Perhaps a day I've been waiting for my whole life. Heck, I have two water tattoos on my back for "Aquarius". This to find out later that Aquarius is an "air" sign and not "water" sign. Oh well.

So now I'm determined to get my boats name right.

How important is a boats name to me? Everywhere I traveled I looked at boats and BOAT NAMES.

As A kid looking at boats and boat names in Put-In-Bay Ohio. Winter trips in the Winnebago to Florida waters. As an adult looking at boats and boat names in San Diego, San Francisco, Hawaii, Seattle, Boston and more.

How about visiting the HUGE Yachts and their names in Monte Carlo, Villafrenche Sur Mer, Cannes, Shanghai, Portofino, and even Cartehegna.

Could I get near the boats? No. But they were so big you could barely read their names from afar.

So who of us boat owners haven't inched their way onto docks to look at boats and their names? Sometimes while you're parents lost track of you?

Do you remember that feeling, "I'll never have a boat like that"? Well now we own boat's. And now I finally get to name one.

So who here hasn't dreamed like I am today of naming a boat one day? I am so happy.

Sorry have to bring pirates into this. C'mon now, who hasn't dreamed of being a pirate? Pirates have to name their boats too.
 
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Ducatihottie said:
Do you remember that feeling, "I'll never have a boat like that"? Well now we do. And now I finally to name one.

So, who here hasn't dreamed like I of naming their own boat one day?
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Yea, I remember saying to myself "What a beautiful boat! What I wouldn't give to have her!"

So here's another suggestion: How about "Left Nut?"
 
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