Careful not to anger the white mice, they are after all in in control of this planet!

(the nerds in the group get this)

We had a NACRA 6.0 that was named that (not backwards, but forwards) in deference to it being a cat and a boat that gets wet.

Of course, after calling the Tuesday results out in the bar by boat name a handful of times (the score-keeper NOT being the squeamish type) the name was changed to "Liquid Courage"...

"Gee Brain, what are we going to do today?"

thats funny too, but I was talking about the ones looking for the ultimate question, they have the answer, its 42, but they're looking for the question!

Wait a minit- I thought it was the dolphins were in charge.

No the dolphins were just the most inteligent beings here, and when we didn't listen to there warning they started to leave. Or will start o leave, I really dunno what tense to use here.

once upon a time in a galaxy far far away?

In our club we have:

Lickalotapuss - which can only refer to beating other cats (sailed by ex Dart 18 World Champ);
Eat My Kittywake - another sailor determined to be in front!
And my favourite is Jammy Dodger for a red Dart 18 with a white waterline stripe.
Visitors have included Hullraiser and Scorched Cat.

My Spitfire was already named White Tiger (the previous owner names his boats after rare cats - appropriate in my corner of the UK). I stuck with it partly through superstition about changing boat names, and because I quite liked it. I like it a lot better now that a friend (and sailing rival) rescued a fluffy toy white tiger from his daughter's donation to the jumble. It now sits astride my spinni pole and is often the first to cross the line! (This will please Wouter - his scalps inculde various F18s and Nacra 6, all rated as faster than the Spitti, a grandfathered F16.)

To change the theme a bit, does anyone else have a mascot on board?

Simon

Wait a minute!!!! If dolphins are the smart ones why do WE have the sailboats? Hmmmm? Answer that.

Also I don't think 42 is the answer. Wouldn't it have to be a prime number?

Finally, I think women rule the world...... Think of all the stupid things you have done (or will do) just to get a piece. My father-in-law with 3 blonde ex-wives taught me this.....


Greg

So are you saying that the blondes are the smart ones, for divorcing him when they discovered he wasn't interested in their minds?

Maybe. But they weren't very smart to believe his line of bulls$%t in the first place, if you ask me. He can't afford to even divorce his current wife. So, he is just dating.

The white mice were EXPERIMENTING with the planet, weren't they?

And thanks for all the fish

Jay
N18sq sail# 42 (!)

To get a little bit back on topic -- on the F16 forum somebody apparently wants the number 666 for his Blade. This was my response:

What is in a name, or in this case a number?

I would not tempt fate by asking for a number like 666. I tend to be somewhat superstitious about boat names and numbers.

Rick and a bunch of people on his boat were rescued once in the Gulf Stream by a freighter named "Kindly." (Good name.)

A big monohull sailboat that we were hired to maintain for a while was named "Incorrigible." The wife of the original owner of the boat died of cancer. And the wife of the current owner (at the time we were involved) also died of cancer. (Bad name. The second owner should have changed the name to something less aggressive sounding. Boats are supposed to be female in gender.)

A young sailor (college student) drowned when trapped under a Hobie 16 named "Wet Screams." We were there in Vancouver, BC when it happened. The next day when I saw the name on the boat, it really freaked me out.

After that I decided it is very important to be careful what you wish for when you name a boat.

To tempt fate or embrace it - a ways back a sailor named Phil Weld was capsized while sailing his Newick-designed trimaran "Gulf Streamer" - it happened in the Gulf Stream when the boat was hit by a rogue wave. His next Newick tri to replace it was named "Rogue Wave".

Well the mice own the planet, they commisioned it, bought and paid for, so I just automatically put them in charge. As to why we have sailboats and dolphins don't, I think its just so that have somethign that makes wakes for them to play in.

so I'm on topic how about "Puss 'n Chutes"

Slightly OT--

We've renamed a friend's power boat "PADDLE BACK"

...Think about it.

I'm planning on naming my nacra 5.5uni "Water Lily White"... my non-Caucasian, non-Utahn friends will get a kick out of it

I'm thinkin' about it Eric.

What about something like....." $ 2.59 9/10 NOT"

I saw a Cigarette boat in Lauderdale,years ago, named "C.A.Jones" Think about it. Wayne

How about....

"Sailbad the Sinner"

I saw that on a sloop yacht once in Guadeloupe. I might call my H16 that, if I can't think of anything that would make it worth it being original! =)