"River Wild" wrote in message
om...
Okay, this is a silly question, but has anybody here ever "named" a
kayak before?

Not a kayak, but my canoes have names. My first "real" canoe was a
ex-rental Mad River Eclipse with "BLEM" stenciled in red on the inside. :-)
My buddy was so impressed with that canoe's performance compared to my old
flat-bottom fiberglass junker, he said it couldn't have been a blem.
Instead, he figured it must have once belonged to a dyslexic named "Mel"
with a last name that began with "B." So the eclipse was henceforth known
as "Mel B."

When a shiny new Bell NorthWind was added to the stable, no names came to
mind. We have ended up referring to it as "Bell B."

Good paddling,
Bob Scott




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Me thinks that it is one of those situations where if you have to ask, you
don't have the courage to go ahead and do it without community consensus.
And on this board, looking for community consensus is certain recipe for
failure (thank the good lord!)

I'm of similar mind to John Kuthe's post, but not his summation: I'd suggest
that many do have a name for their kayak but, like their name for certain
parts of their body, they seldom share it with any but their closest
friends, keeping the name for their own private enjoyment. Opposite to
Oci's guy with the "MY Z80"

Padeen




"River Wild" wrote in message
om...
Okay, this is a silly question, but has anybody here ever "named" a
kayak before? I think it is fun to give certain things a name, like
cars and boats and stuff. My kayak doesn't yet have a name as I have
never thought of something good enough for it, but I'm thinking of
it.... Hehe.

(And I think I'm gonna have to start calling my SUV "MooCar" 'cause I
put cow-spotted foam [which I got at the craft store] around the roof
rack rails to keep my kayak from slipping when it is on them! It's a
pretty funny sight! My kayak is not cow-spotted, however, so I cannot
call it "MooYak".)

John Kuthe wrote in
:

River Wild wrote:

Okay, this is a silly question, but has anybody here ever "named" a
kayak before?
[snip]

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".

Chris Webster wrote in message ...
Heh, heh. I get equally irritated with personalized license plates.
"MY-Z80", for example, or "MYTOY". I mean, the "MY" is utterly
redundandant, because, to whom does property belong but its owner, fer
Pete's sake? And as far as the "Z80" (or "280Z", or "B610", or
whatever) is concerned, if I know what a Z-80 is, then I know what I'm
looking at already, and if I don't know what a Z-80 is, I probably
don't give a flying hoot. So "MY-Z80" fatuously contains absolutely
zero information content. And that's just one category of dumass
personalized tags. On the other hand, occasionally one does see a
clever one.


So the license plate on my old Chevy Citation that read "GMJUNK" was
kinda redundant?

--Chris

Well, as a Ford owner, I'd hafta say...

riverman wrote:
You're a GUY and you don't name parts of your body??
Wow, me and old Sasquatch are laughing at that one.

Yes, I am a guy, and no, I do not name parts of my body. I find it kinda
silly that some do. Part of a childish uncomfortablenes with those
parts, I suppose. Dunno.

--
John Kuthe,
1st rule of Govt: protect people from Govt
2nd rule of Govt: protect people from each other
BUT: It must *never* become the job of Govt to protect people from
themselves!

John Fereira wrote:

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's kinda how I feel about it too. I don't name my kayak, cause that
would somehow imply that it was a separate entity from me, and I don't
feel that way about my kayak. My kayak is, to me, like a pair of pants.
When I "put it on", it becomes a part of me.

I do however name my vehicles! Or began to when I got a big ole 1985 3/4
ton Chevy Suburban. I names it Beastie, cause it was. (Shortened from
"The Beast" over time.) Then I had Beastie II, my second, less beastly
Suburban, an 1990 1/2 ton. And my current vehicle, a pretty liitle red
Caravan I call "Baby". She's a sweetheart too! :-)


--
John Kuthe,
1st rule of Govt: protect people from Govt
2nd rule of Govt: protect people from each other
BUT: It must *never* become the job of Govt to protect people from
themselves!

John Kuthe ) wrote:
: River Wild wrote:
:
: Okay, this is a silly question, but has anybody here ever "named" a
: kayak before?
: [snip]

: Do you name your clothes? Your shoes? Etc.? Then why name your kayak?

Only reason I can think of is that it makes it a little
easier to make a VHF radio call.

-Ken

John Fereira wrote in message ...
John Kuthe wrote in
:

River Wild wrote:

Okay, this is a silly question, but has anybody here ever "named" a
kayak before?
[snip]

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.
a friend bought a sail boat from a crusty older fellow. semper fi, was
the name on it.
i was taken, i asked him why he named his boat semper fi? he said "no
that is semper from florida."
i told him it was semper fi; asked if the gentleman he bought it from
was a soldier. he thought so. i told him it was short for semper
fidelis ( latin for always faithfull
i was delighted .
he changed the name to temptation.
please forgive any spelling errors if you are with the u s m c.
thought you guys would like this.

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:10:47 GMT, wrote:

It's name? (Borrowed from a bicycle movement favoring the old
materials and designs) - "The Retrogrouch".

A Bridgestone fan, by chance? I still have two.


As to names for a boat-

If it happens, it happens. While still single, I stored my boats in
the dining room. My Jensen 17 poked into the living room a bit. Over
a few beers one evening, while trying to look over the bow of the
Jensen to see the guy sitting across the room, Linda Ronstat named my
fast baby blue Wenonah- the Blue-By-You.

Only boat I've ever named, I guess.


-Dan