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Clever boat names
x-no-archive:yes rhys wrote:
On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 19:26:11 GMT, WaIIy wrote: I'm not too much for the punny boat names. One of the best I saw was on an 80+ sized boat... "Sorry Kids" Heh. Well, I LOVE punny names...or at least hearing about them. But I think a prime consideration has to be *not* "is it funny?" but "is it confusing to the Coast Guard when you are trying to ID your sinking vessel?" Perhaps a spoilsport opinion, but if it takes three attempts to understand "SV Why Knot", I would suggest that "dangerous" has trumped "cute". One of my husband's normal exclamations is "OK Whatever" (When he retired, they gave him an "OK Whatever" plaque) We considered naming the boat that, but I thought about calling the CG- CG asks, What is the name of your vessel - A. OK Whatever. CG What is the nature of your distress OK Whatever? etc. I also thought about spelling out OK in words, but the word for K is Kilo, and I thought that might lead to unfortunate conclusions. However, I don't mind the puny names so much as those names with a whole lot of vowels in them. We've met people on a boat named for the blue crab and the name means beautiful swimmer or something like that, and when they check in on the SSB with Herb, they call themselves something that is easier to understand. I know of a Mainship with a name like that in beautiful script on the stern, but they have a dinghy over it name and say that no one can ever understand their name so they call themselves "Mainship" on the radio as if that was the boat's name. We met some folks on a boat named ARCTURUS, which is a star, but he said folks have a lot of trouble with the name on the radio. It must get tiring to have to explain your boat's name all the time. grandma Rosalie |
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Sailing dinghy in Paignton, England:
Sailbad the Sinner. |
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Sailing dinghy in Paignton, England:
Sailbad the Sinner. |
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Everytime someone asked me where I was going to go for the weekend, I would
answer. " I am going to the boat" . The name for my boat, a 27 foot Doral Monticello, is "The Boat" Jim Carter |
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Everytime someone asked me where I was going to go for the weekend, I would
answer. " I am going to the boat" . The name for my boat, a 27 foot Doral Monticello, is "The Boat" Jim Carter |
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On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 04:27:21 GMT, Rosalie B.
wrote: However, I don't mind the puny names so much as those names with a whole lot of vowels in them. We've met people on a boat named for the blue crab and the name means beautiful swimmer or something like that, and when they check in on the SSB with Herb, they call themselves something that is easier to understand. You don't want to **** off Herb. G We met some folks on a boat named ARCTURUS, which is a star, but he said folks have a lot of trouble with the name on the radio. It must get tiring to have to explain your boat's name all the time. Now, that tells you something, as Arcturus, being one of the better celestial navigational stars, would have been as familiar as "Polaris" twenty years ago. Anyway, your point about a lot of vowels is interesting. Under less than ideal transmitting conditions, more vowels would equal less meaning conveyed to a distant station. I wonder how the French, Spanish and Italian Coast Guards handle the inherent "ah-ee-oo" sounds on their radio communications at sea? I would guess they have to do a lot more spelling out than people speaking Germanic languages. I regularly intercept pretty weak 'n' crunchy TX from distant stations while sailing, and I can usually follow the plot just from the way the consonants are flowing. R. |
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On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 04:27:21 GMT, Rosalie B.
wrote: However, I don't mind the puny names so much as those names with a whole lot of vowels in them. We've met people on a boat named for the blue crab and the name means beautiful swimmer or something like that, and when they check in on the SSB with Herb, they call themselves something that is easier to understand. You don't want to **** off Herb. G We met some folks on a boat named ARCTURUS, which is a star, but he said folks have a lot of trouble with the name on the radio. It must get tiring to have to explain your boat's name all the time. Now, that tells you something, as Arcturus, being one of the better celestial navigational stars, would have been as familiar as "Polaris" twenty years ago. Anyway, your point about a lot of vowels is interesting. Under less than ideal transmitting conditions, more vowels would equal less meaning conveyed to a distant station. I wonder how the French, Spanish and Italian Coast Guards handle the inherent "ah-ee-oo" sounds on their radio communications at sea? I would guess they have to do a lot more spelling out than people speaking Germanic languages. I regularly intercept pretty weak 'n' crunchy TX from distant stations while sailing, and I can usually follow the plot just from the way the consonants are flowing. R. |
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There is a boat named "whatever" in my marina. When the wife found out the
name they originally picked out had been used, her husband told her on the phone to name it whatever. She did. Another funny one around here is "excuse me". Racing sailboat... funny to hail him though. "Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me... this is Anastasia III". Somebody invariably asks... "so what do you want?" hehehe! -- Keith __ "There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works." - Will Rogers "Rosalie B." wrote in message ... x-no-archive:yes rhys wrote: On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 19:26:11 GMT, WaIIy wrote: I'm not too much for the punny boat names. One of the best I saw was on an 80+ sized boat... "Sorry Kids" Heh. Well, I LOVE punny names...or at least hearing about them. But I think a prime consideration has to be *not* "is it funny?" but "is it confusing to the Coast Guard when you are trying to ID your sinking vessel?" Perhaps a spoilsport opinion, but if it takes three attempts to understand "SV Why Knot", I would suggest that "dangerous" has trumped "cute". One of my husband's normal exclamations is "OK Whatever" (When he retired, they gave him an "OK Whatever" plaque) We considered naming the boat that, but I thought about calling the CG- CG asks, What is the name of your vessel - A. OK Whatever. CG What is the nature of your distress OK Whatever? etc. I also thought about spelling out OK in words, but the word for K is Kilo, and I thought that might lead to unfortunate conclusions. However, I don't mind the puny names so much as those names with a whole lot of vowels in them. We've met people on a boat named for the blue crab and the name means beautiful swimmer or something like that, and when they check in on the SSB with Herb, they call themselves something that is easier to understand. I know of a Mainship with a name like that in beautiful script on the stern, but they have a dinghy over it name and say that no one can ever understand their name so they call themselves "Mainship" on the radio as if that was the boat's name. We met some folks on a boat named ARCTURUS, which is a star, but he said folks have a lot of trouble with the name on the radio. It must get tiring to have to explain your boat's name all the time. grandma Rosalie |
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There is a boat named "whatever" in my marina. When the wife found out the
name they originally picked out had been used, her husband told her on the phone to name it whatever. She did. Another funny one around here is "excuse me". Racing sailboat... funny to hail him though. "Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me... this is Anastasia III". Somebody invariably asks... "so what do you want?" hehehe! -- Keith __ "There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works." - Will Rogers "Rosalie B." wrote in message ... x-no-archive:yes rhys wrote: On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 19:26:11 GMT, WaIIy wrote: I'm not too much for the punny boat names. One of the best I saw was on an 80+ sized boat... "Sorry Kids" Heh. Well, I LOVE punny names...or at least hearing about them. But I think a prime consideration has to be *not* "is it funny?" but "is it confusing to the Coast Guard when you are trying to ID your sinking vessel?" Perhaps a spoilsport opinion, but if it takes three attempts to understand "SV Why Knot", I would suggest that "dangerous" has trumped "cute". One of my husband's normal exclamations is "OK Whatever" (When he retired, they gave him an "OK Whatever" plaque) We considered naming the boat that, but I thought about calling the CG- CG asks, What is the name of your vessel - A. OK Whatever. CG What is the nature of your distress OK Whatever? etc. I also thought about spelling out OK in words, but the word for K is Kilo, and I thought that might lead to unfortunate conclusions. However, I don't mind the puny names so much as those names with a whole lot of vowels in them. We've met people on a boat named for the blue crab and the name means beautiful swimmer or something like that, and when they check in on the SSB with Herb, they call themselves something that is easier to understand. I know of a Mainship with a name like that in beautiful script on the stern, but they have a dinghy over it name and say that no one can ever understand their name so they call themselves "Mainship" on the radio as if that was the boat's name. We met some folks on a boat named ARCTURUS, which is a star, but he said folks have a lot of trouble with the name on the radio. It must get tiring to have to explain your boat's name all the time. grandma Rosalie |
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On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 18:34:16 GMT, "Jim Carter"
wrote (with possible editing): Everytime someone asked me where I was going to go for the weekend, I would answer. " I am going to the boat" . The name for my boat, a 27 foot Doral Monticello, is "The Boat" Jim Carter Perhaps you should have named it "The Office". -- Larry Email to rapp at lmr dot com |
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