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John Fereira wrote in message
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John Kuthe wrote in
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River Wild wrote:

Okay, this is a silly question, but has anybody here ever "named" a
kayak before?
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No. When I first got into kayaking, I posed this questions and was
told (and I agree with!) that since a kayak is like a part of your
body, unless you are in the habit of naming parts of your body (some
people are, but I don't do that either!), that it's completely
inappropriate to name your kayak.

I heard the same thing and it is based on traditional kayakers that
used their boats for hunting. The kayak wasn't just an extension of
their body. The kayaks that greenlanders built (and still do) are
sized based on their body size, and in fact various body parts are
used to determine the dimensions (okay, no quips about the size of the
cockpit). As traditional greenlanders used their kayaks for
sustenance their primary existance was directly tied to their boat.
Giving it a name was thought of as giving it a separate entity, and as
hunters, their kayak was part of who they were.

That said, I've built a couple of wood kayaks and if I build another
I'm really tempted to call it "Sportin' Wood".

i have named my kayak ( a fiber glass capella ) i will not say what it
is called.
p & h have named the boat. wilderness systems names boats; all the
manufacturers name their creations, why not us.

Technically, manufacturers don't name their boats but name models of boats.