My boat was named boomerang when I bought her. I don't get it and most of the letters have peeled off. I foresee a boat naming ceremony where she is renamed Smurfette. I can't help it. My boat looks like a smurf.
Last edited by Tri_X_Troll; 07/13/0802:24 PM.
Ryan - H16
I prefer to go sailing because baseball, football, tennis, and golf only require 1 ball!
I'm thinking of either "The Other Woman" or "Firebolt" accompanied by a nice truefire paint job or If I ever could get black sails with a skull and cross bones I might paint my hulls black and call her "The Black Pearl"
I all ready bought a little Flag with a skull and crossbones that says "The beating with continue until morale improves"
Re: Naming your cat
[Re: blockp]
#71811 07/13/0804:02 PM07/13/0804:02 PM
The A-Cat is "slippery when wet" The Tornado was renamed DasBoot when [email]wet@!##$[/email] was complained about just prior to launch day in 1988. What can I say, I was young and dumb when I chose the name. Glad others were not as young and dumb and the name was never painted.
I foresee a boat naming ceremony where she is renamed Smurfette.
Re-naming a boat is BAD MOJO (bad, bad bad mojo)
If done right, you can appease Poseidon or your favorite water deitie. Do a search on boat naming/renaming ceremonies and you will find plenty of info.
If done right, you can appease Poseidon or your favorite water deitie. Do a search on boat naming/renaming ceremonies and you will find plenty of info.
For racing my next F-18 is going to be "Starboard" that way if im ever protested im always on starboard.
Especially helpful if the other boat involved in the protest is named "Port Whine." <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Re: Naming your cat
[Re: Mary]
#71817 07/14/0808:50 PM07/14/0808:50 PM
Years ago there was a VERY experienced skipper competing in the "Down the Bay Race" ... who tried to pass under the western approach causeway of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge ... he miss judged the clearence .... there was a loud "BONK" as he hit all four the roadway support beams .... that night a individual/group using red & black permenant markers named his boat .... "CENTER SPAN".
Sail Flat, Sail Fast HarryMurphey TheMightyHobie18/#9458, Fleet54/Div11 P19MX/#86, CRAC
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[Re: Hairbear]
#71818 07/15/0807:21 AM07/15/0807:21 AM
The boat itself isn't the special treat... It's actually named for a certain "thing" my wife and I do at "special times" which is done at fast speeds and can get quite wet. And so I named the boat after that! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />
The graphics I designed and a local sign shop did them in vinyl and put them on the hulls.
Re: Naming your cat
[Re: Mary]
#71819 07/15/0807:29 AM07/15/0807:29 AM
For racing my next F-18 is going to be "Starboard" that way if im ever protested im always on starboard.
Especially helpful if the other boat involved in the protest is named "Port Whine." <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Who was on Starboard? no, who was on Port.
Jake Kohl
Re: Naming your cat
[Re: Jake]
#71820 07/15/0807:37 AM07/15/0807:37 AM
bit of a late post contribution to this thread but was waiting for a good pic to show the boat under sail
when bought, here on a small lake in mountain japan, my boat was just known as "the nacra"
26 years old, but little used, it looked like it would clean up well, but nothing could be done to improve the uv cracked factory stickers
with a long winter it was easy enough to decided to carefully copy, enlarge and hand paint the makers name and boat type direct to the hull
about then the white tiger's head, that the sailing anarchists came up for the flying tiger, caught my eye and because it was eye catching and could just be a few black blobs of paint on a white hull i decided to paint that on too
with a "face" for the boat it now needed a name to match and with the addition of some sunglasses on the tiger head we decided on "cool cat". easy to read, understand and pronounce in a non-english speaking country
mucking around on the computer things seemed to look best if they were as big as possible, so it was decided to put big tigers heads on the bow, move the factory stuff to the stern and the fill up in between with the name
masking and painting strait lines is too much work so fonts were searched until "chiller" was found on ms word
still looking for good ideas from other boats we flogged the red lettering on the mast from the f18 capricorn
very happy with the result, makes the 4 year old hobie 16 on the same beach look old fashioned:o)