Okay, folks. I don't know if this has been discussed here before, but what does everyone own, what's the name of your boat and how did you arrive at that name?
OR, favorite boat name that you've had or heard of?

Chris, it sounds like you're not sold on WW--any thoughts of what that might be changed to?


Looking forward to the snow melting and boat launching!!

-John

Okay, I'll start.

Let me start with the last question first....
My old boat name and possibly my favorite boat name was "Mutinous Dog" (from the movie Wind--"I've got a tired old boat and a crew of mutinous dogs!")
I still love that name.

So, my Rebel keeps with the "dog" theme (some friends gave me the nickname "Bulldog" many years ago) but we went with "White Dog" based on the twice-distilled but un-aged bourbon that comes from right from the still. Very powerful stuff and will get you going right quick. We even went with a font on the transom that looks like the name been stamped on the barrel.

Brings together two of my favorite things--bourbon and sailing (though never at the same time)!

Anyone else?
-John

My boat came with the corny name "Hang on sloopy", emblasoned in large bright blue 1970s script type down both side of the hull which I removed as quickly as possible. Even the coast guard thought it was funny....and they have no sense of humor.

I was planning on changing it (sailor's bad luck be damned) but while I was thinking about it my kids started calling it sloopy, the sloop, sloop, sloopinator, sloopers, etc....and now the name has stuck. I was tempted to sidestep a little bit with SLOOP-E, but that thought didn't last long.

My favorite boat name is my old 12' boat which I called Pond Scum.

Bree

As is well-chronicled, my boat is named Winsum Wind which I think is just plain retarded...

For a new name, I've tried taking recommendations for the wife but most of hers are too long to fit on the transom.

I'm not sure what I'll name her but it won't be until next season. I like the name "Gusto" for some reason.. it just popped into my head one day. "Prozac" would be funny..

I'm a big fan of Ev's boat name.. not only because I spent a good deal of my youth listening to GNR, but it's just cool on a lot of levels.

I think it is cool when, like John has done, different personal elements can be combined to build a unique name.

When we bought our boat she was named Lone Oak. We could appreciate the strong image it evokes but to us it also means standing alone w/ roots firmly planted. Definitely not going to be us when we go cruising. In respect of her former name I have done some trim in the salon using local oak. I ran the edger at the sawmill when it was sawn which adds a personal touch that will be w/ us wherever we sail.

April and I have always been GnR fans and went through many of the same issues depicted in their songs. The personal relationship stuff, NOT the heroin stuff, never done it.
We both like the part in one song that goes;
Ya get out on your own
And you/take all that you own
And you/forget about your home
And then you're/just fuckin' gone...

Well that is what we plan to do after the last kid graduates in 2012 so we think it sums it up and w/ a bit of attitude. But if sweet old ladies ask what the JF stands for I will probably just say Jenny Finch.

The javelin came with the name Taylor Maid, It will get a new name if I get around to buffing out the hull. I like the name Que Onda, which means how's it going but can also mean what waves! since we live on a lake but have some rail road tracks between us and the lake I wanted to put "The Wrong Side of the Tracks" but it just doesn't seem to fit.

For my big boat, I would like to put Pilgrim Shadow. As it is that boat that will help search for El Dorado. (I am going with the utopia interpretation and not the death interpretation for that poem )

I did a lot of thinking about a name for the boat I would buy last summer. I was thinking of sumething that related the pure fun/joy/peace I feel on the water.

This was short circuited when I found my boat. It was owned by a fellow in Madison named Guy, and the boat was named Fungi.

I know if you name a boat after a person it's supposed to be your wife, but. . .

I found a little more information about Winsum Wind. Now the name seems slightly less lame than it was before, but still mostly lame in my opinion

Apparently Winsum is actually a Dutch town founded in 1057 that has two traditional Dutch windmills. I just thought it was someone who couldn't spell

The name is still getting changed! I'm not dutch.. I'm a Swede!

Our boat didn't have a name when we got her. The PO really didn't sail much during the one season he had her (jib still in the bag and factory wrappers still on the winches).

Marilyn & I like to vacation in Mexico and you get in the habit of ordering "one more" of what ever you're drinking at the moment. Making/taking time to actually go sailing on the boat vs. mowing around it in the back yard became our goal. We were always looking for just "one more" day on the water.

We named the boat UNA MAS (Spanish for "one more")

Boat launch starts on May 1st @ SSYC and can't get here soon enough.

My vessal had no name when I bought her. Sailed for a few years without bothering about a name. Decided to 'play with words'... and spent not an inconsiderable amount of time with naming her 'Blow Me'. The joke is OBVIOUS, of course, and I chuckled to think that cars passing her when towing on the interstate that said "Rude!"... might be an hour down the road before they recognized the joke (i.e. wind blown vessal). I truly did enjoy the thought of her known as 'Blow Me' (odd sense of humor, I know)... until, suddenly, I realized that every one of you GUYS would be hailing me on the VHF, saying 'Blow Me!'... well... to ME! ROFLMAO, that name suddenly died a quick death, as, no offense to anyone's sexual preference, but that's CERTAINLY not something my ears would ever want to hear (my ears, personally, are a tad homophobic, and quite proud about it!

I then toyed with the idea of naming her 'Wet Dream'. Again, playing the word game. This one I also actually liked, as the 'wet' of the name was self obvious, whereas 'dream'... well, I'd dreamed of owning a sailboat since forever (which of us has not?)! I still like the name, and will probably use it for my next vessal.

However, I was driving to Izumi's one night for Sushi... was not thinking about my boat AT ALL... and, when thinking about enjoying the good meal to come... unbidden, the name 'Sushi Bucket' literally just popped into my mind for the sailboat! Wow, came out of no-where! She's been called 'Sushi Bucket' ever since! End of story.

'Blow Me', however, I still think (with my sad humor) to have been my best, but, as stated, wasn't about to have every guy in the harbor yelling that at me over the VHF! Now... had I been born female...