You may want to have her rethink the AMERIKA concept.

Later,

Tom

I agree.

You won't always have a chance to explain
the meaning before somebody makes a negative assumption.

On topic/off topic: She could always call the boat "Al-Merica". When we were
kids we were taught that the western continents were named for Amerigo
Vespucci, a map maker, (He would have named it Vespuccia.....but doesn't matter
because it isn't true). When the Templar Knights excavated under the old Jewish
Temple during the (forget the #) Crusade, they found Islamic documents that
referred to continents beyond the great western ocean and that called the land
masses "Al-Merica". This knowledge was retained by the Templar Knights until
the "official" western-Euro discovery of he continents by the Spanish in 1492.

Osama bin Ladin would like to see the original name reapplied. :-(

Using the name Amerika sounds very eastern-Euro, socialist, etc. Using the
original name, "Al-Merica" would be *extremely* ill advised at the moment.
Why not have somebody in the family simply change the spelling of their name
from a "k" to a "c", and go for a lot less controversy?

Back on topic:

As far as the JSJ goes, that could cause trouble as well. Some bunch of yahoo
kids will think that's an open invite: Jet Ski Jump