Yes, I'm well aware of the implications. A little story here:

The rowing team for our university is very well supplied... they have a couple of brand new 8-man shells out at the lake. One of them is named "Canis Lupis" (our university is the Wolfpack). I thought the latin name sounded nice, almost intimidating. I had been thinking about what to name my boat... things like "this side up" and so forth interested me, but after finding them unoriginal, I was left with little options. Later I almost said screw it, and just wanted to put one of those shark's teeth images on each bow. But then, I put the latin and the shark together, typed into google "Latin for Shark" and the first thing that popped up was "Squalus." It sounded pretty cool, almost intimidating. Jake overlayed the image on a diagram of a N5.2 and I was instantly sold. The font is the same they use on the Porsche 911. I have to say that every time I've taken the boat out, I've got compliments on its looks, even a couple of powerboaters down in Wilmington found it attractive. So I'm going to temp fate and keep the name.