We are trying to name our Prindle 16, which my wife and I sail for fun and relaxation on Sarasota Bay in Florida. Any suggestions would be welcome. (We have a few of our own, like Duet, Miata, etc.)

Thanks,

Andrew

my H16 was "Twin Screw" (I have some powerboat blood in my veins). all boats since have been "boat".

I personally like one I saw on the internet not too long ago:



"My Last Boat IV"

On of my favorites on Lake Champlain is called "A Meeting". (Whenever its owner needs some time away from the office, he tells his co-workers that he's "at a meeting".)



Cheers,

How about something lite and fluffy , like....... " PUSSYWIDOW"

My favorite boat name of all time that I've ever seen -- "Poodle with a Mohawk".

Hi Kevin, There are many names in this category. Like "Assignment", as "I'll be out on assignment today". There are some websites for boat name but I do not remember the addresses. Try a web search and you will find lots of ideas.



Mike

One of my favorites:



'Piece of Sheet'

The name that Rick Bliss has on the side of his N6.0 is a good one, too - "Follow the Yellow 6.0"

I forgot to mention that we named our first Mystere 6.0 "Dances With Waves" because we bought it right after the movie Dances With Wolves came out. We had graphics made up so that the name was done in the same colors as the boat decals and with a font that made the name sort of resemble waves. It was really eye catching and we had lots of nice comments about it. Then one evening during our local club's race, we had a monster storm come roaring through and wreak havoc. Dances With Waves suddenly Tumbled In Storms and was written off after smashing up on rocks after we were rescued by the Coast Guard. My only insurance claim in 26 years of buying boat insurance but it paid back all those premiums! NOOA weather radio issues high wind warnings at appropriate times where they urge operators of high profile vehicles to consider staying off the roads. So the new Mystere was named 'High Profile Vehicle" to remind us of what happened. Interestingly, we had watched the 6 P.M. T.V. news weather report immediately before launching as we live on the bay and the race area is close enough to sail to for the 7 P.M. start. Not a word was mentioned about this storm - it took a giant right turn down the eastern shore of lake Michigan just to give us a whole new experience. The storm traveled at 50 mph and had winds as high as 82 mph. Not the recommended way to get a new boat or a new name!



Mike

Of course, then there's



"Two Sheets in the Wind"

Our favorite name was Tom Cat, my son's name, Tom and my initials, used on our Hobie 16 and Hobie 18.

Caleb Tarleton

Andrew-

Definitely take your time and the "right" name will come to you all. Sometimes you can incorporate part of the boat, or your own name, in a "play on words" (my Taipan 4.9 is named "My Tai") or pick a name that describes you (or the boat) in some way- My late Father's last boat was named "Folie a Deux" which is psychiatric lingo (he was a psychoanalyst by trade) for the situation where 2 people go crazy together ;-)



Enjoy!



Kirt

my last boat was lunatic fringe. this one is basketcase. that says it all.

If you like foreign languages, you can simply translate cat into something else. In Spanish (and other latin languages), for example:



Cat = Gato

Tiger = Tigre

Panther = Pantera

My old H16 - "Allez Cat" ('allez' is 'you go' in French)

Friend's yelo VIVA 27' - "Morris"

My 18sq - "Vileine" (means 'ugly' in French)

Other boats I've seen: "Nice Pair", "E Aho La'ula" (from the TV ad, 'wider is better'), "2 Kewl" "Et Two Brute" "Deuced"

This is too weird... You're P16 doesn't happen to be yellow, does it??? My name is Andy ( Andrew), I just got a yellow P16 (1978), and my wife and I have been trying to think of a name for it... Strange...



Anyway, best of luck,

Andy

My friend had a Fireball named Rhumb Runner, which I always thought was clever. I have no idea what to rename my Tornado.

how about SWEET 16? SWEET P? how about P-DQ? POKEYMON?

I do think boats should be named. Some would disagree, especially the smaller boats. They each have their own personality and quirks. It is important to be comfortable and cats when sailed well truly become an extension of your body. It also inspires a higher level of ownership and pride.

My first catamaran was named “Hotspur”. The “spur” gives it a little piece of Texas, however the name was taken from the book “Hornblower and the Hotspur” by CS Forrester. The book is number three in a 10 + series of naval fiction set in the late 1700’s. Yep, when British canvass, wood, gunpowder and cannon balls ruled the sea! This is Hornblower’s first command and HMS "Hotspur" becomes part of the Channel Fleet, blockading the French fleet based at Brest. The routine of life on blockade duty is broken by furious North Atlantic gales. "Hotspur" is a sloop of war and although smaller, slower and outgunned by virtually every other warship, she is able to defeat a French frigate with better boat handling and tactics and uses her strengths to stage daring raids on the French coast.

I tried for a long time to come up with the perfect name, and nothing was just right. Then without trying so hard, "Hotspur" just came and I knew it was right. No name for the new cat yet. Get the book and read it. No doubt my favorite in the series.

I went with "Stress Free". Clears my head every time out.



Doug Snell

H17 #007

"Stress Free"

Thank you for all your imaginative suggestions for naming our cat; we appreciate your help. Alas, we have not selected one yet, but have thought of DUET, KITTY, ZIPPY, KATZ (cat in German), and WINGS. In the meantime, we enjoy passing almost all of the monohulls on Sarasota Bay, including the fast Flying Scots. Only the E-Scows seem to keep up with us. So our little blue and white Prindle 16 is a sweet cat, though still nameless.



Regards,

Andrew

I like a friend of mine's Supercat 17 - "Aquaholic."

How about.



"Best Pussy I Ever Had"



Did I say that? Sorry.



Mike Hill

First cat was "Raison d'etre"

Looking myself for name of next one

"The other woman" is favorite at present - but would ideally like something with a medical flavor - yellow sails so jaundiced turn???

When a friend of mine bought a Dart18 off a female owner - it came ready named as "Itchy Pussy".



Perhaps a good name for a cat that is raced hard is catterbatter - my Scots wife tells me it's slang for acting aggressively...

Had a little Hobie once called Small Change. Had a "stink"boat called FuLinYuII.

Whatever you decide to call 'er, I just wish you fun sailing.

I gotta be more careful of what I post! who knew my little stupid blurb would wind up in print??!

I'm giving my H16 the name "Bad Catatude".

good luck!

Thank you for all your suggestions, many of them very clever and some truly amusing. No wonder some of your responses have made it into the CATAMARAN SAILOR magazine. The final, final name we have arrived at is PURRARI, combining a catlike behavior with the speed of a Ferrari. So the tempest in a teapot is probably over -- and it has been great fun.



Best wishes,

Andrew and Sue

Excellent choice!

Thanks, Jake.

Andrew

Maybe a little late but I just saw : LOCOMOCEAN on a stern of a mono.



I just wanted to share this with you all.



Wouter

I have decided to name my recently acquired P16 "Siaitei".



That's pronounced - C - A - T



andy

A friend of mine suggested I call my A Cat "Girls on Trampoliones" after watching my 2 year old bounce around on the tramp of my boat.

My cat is named Chauvinist and Son. With a large pig w/a stogie and a little pig for my son. It also has oink oink around it.

I Have a 6.0 now and it will be named Chauvinist.

My old Hobvie 16 (sail # 4032, so it was an OLD one) I named "Beach Bum" since I left it on the causeway all the time. My G-Cat 5.7M I've named "Nerito" which is Latin for "Sea Nymph" which is a mermaid. I've got the graphics all set up on the computer, just have to take them to the shop and have them done in vinyl to put on the boat after painting it.



I almost named it "Chester the Cat" after the cat in Alice in Wonderland...



My friend's P18-2 has a name for each hull. One is "Sex Sea" and the other "Teddy Time".

Dredgeing up the old topic....

I know that somewhere out there in cyberspace there's a fairly comprehensive list of boat names. can anyone link me to it?

BoatU.S. has a list of 4,490 boat names. Go to BoatUS.com and do a search for the topic "Boat names."

We had a couple of H-18s show up at a regatta. They were double stacked and the top one was BLOW ME, and the bottom one was BLOW ME TOO!

Mike Catley
M6.0 "NICE PAIR"

NACRA 5.8s tend to have aggressive names. I chose "WET SPOT" when I had a 5.8. My current boat, NACRA 5.5 is called "TWO HOT". Notice the short names - turns out that the nice vinyl letters cost a lot of money - fewer the letters, cheaper the naming exercise turns out.

One of my all-time favorites was a P18-2 from Dallas, "Catillac", the couple had finally moved up from their humble P16.

My 17 is aptly named "^This End Up" although I still haven't put the stickers on

I use to have a Dolphin and then Nacra 5.8 both named THE PREDATOR and sported a sharks mouth (Kittyhawk airoplane style) on its bows with gills and fins. Looked awsome cutting through the water.

Would love to name my Tornado that but have gone for a name that is a little more subtle for the sponnsors. We have named it ALIVE (that's how we feel when we are on it)

Some names that I have like and laughed at are-

Gets ya wet, Dry Reach, Rampaging Muppet, Rhino Juice, The Big Don't Argue, Accidently on Purpose, Bad Medicine, Beatz Workin, Sir Pshyco, Xisbitter (Ex is bitter - because you kept the boat in the seperation), Rum Needs Ice, Appatite for Destruction.

Can keep going all night

Regards

Stephen Medwell
Team Tornado 'ALIVE'
AUS-260
www.tornadoalive.com

Sounds familiar. I had my Hobie 16 named "This Side up"

Jack Hoying
Fort Loramie, Ohio
Prindle 18 #1645
http://www.bright.net/~jmhoying/sailing/prindle.htm

AHHHHH! thats exactly what I wanted my graphic to look like

Damn, and here I thought I was being original.

How about doing like Forrest Gump and naming your boat after your woman?

David Ho
TheMightyHobie18 1067

I would be in the doghouse indefinitely if I named a boat with an 11'8" beam after my girl :P

I'm on "Breakin Wind III", 3rd Hobie.
Although I've been wating to use "Clewless" or "No Clew"

How about Twinns or twix (after my first cat).
I am thinking of naming my current boat CHAOS .

David Ho, you could name your boat after yourself: "Ho Cat"?

Mike,
There's a big cruising cat up at Toledo Harbor Marina (Michigan) that has "Nice Pair" in 3' letters wrote across the side.
Jack Hoying
Fort Loramie, Ohio
Prindle 18 #1645 (No Name)
http://www.bright.net/~jmhoying/sailing/prindle.htm

Ok.... I'll put in this one:
Our H-16 59650 is bright Awlgrip yellow, so her name is: ~ B'NANA SPLIT ~(placed on the bows)~ The reason for the {'} rather than an A was because we were being frugal and could only find 4 A's per 18 dollar package of multicolor letters at West Marine. Still searching for appropriate decals to place along the hulls near the helm position with which to signify her "wins" at the races. Kinda like the fighter pilots did in yesteryear with their **** access area.

SeaWolf

LOL
D. Ho

how about this?

Well, right now I think you could call it "NICE FROZEN PAIR"

Mike

since i have a love/hate relationship with her, i came up with this name- see attached. my next boat, hopefully a nice comfy cruiser/racer (tartan 37 or something) i will use my mothers first name and her middle initial- 'shelba j' a very traditional method of naming boats.

You know how much of a pain in the butt that pinstripe is to remove?

yeah i thought about removing that stripe when i first got her, then opt'ed to leave it on her. i assume you took yours off? i feel your pain!

I love that name!

Jack Hoying
Fort Loramie, Ohio
Prindle 18 #1645
http://www.bright.net/~jmhoying/sailing/prindle.htm

As long as we're still dragging this topic through the snow, maybe someone can help w/my decision...i'm currently torn between :

A: Sunscream
B: SUPERCATifragilisticexpialFEROCIOUS

Being that she is a 17 S/C, i'm leaning toward "B", but i'm afraid that by the time i make the letters big enough to read, i'll need a bigger boat. (and i'll confess, i plagiarized it from the orig. '83 factory brochure)

Davey

I know you have already chosen a name for your cat, but I was just wondering, does your screen name (VeniceSailor) mean you have some connection with Venice or Italy? If so, I would have thought you'd go for a cat name with an Italian/Venician flavour, like:

(Il) Gondola di Gatto....(The) Gondola Cat
(Le) Gondole Gemelle...Twin Gondolas OR
(I) Gemelli di Gondola...(The) Gondola Twins (not sure of plural)
Due Gondole...Two Gondolas
(Lo) Specchio di Gondola...(The) Gondola Mirror
(La) Gondola Riflettuta...(The) Reflected Gondola

(You'll have to pardon my Italian if it's not perfect, as I do not speak it, just English & some Spanish). If you (or anyone) felt like using one of these, please check out spelling, grammar, etc. first!!


Mark Owens
1976 H16 sail # 19857

Option 'B' looks expensive.

I just thought it was time to bring this boat name thread back into action, since the new season is almost upon us, and it is time to think about putting a name on your boat and christening her before she splashes in for the first time this year.

If your boat is more than just a piece of equipment, if she is a part of your family and your life, you should give her a name.

And I read somewhere recently that boats, like hurricanes, are no longer considered to be only female, so that also gives a greater potential range of names, although it is hard to imagine a boat named George.

Does anybody have any new name suggestions?

Mary,

I wish! The damned ice is still a foot thick and there's talk of snow by the first of the week! After returning from the 85 degree waters on the Mexico/Belize border, I'm having a hard time readjusting

As for boat names, since Michele and I are long-time Van Morrison fans, our N6.0 is named "[color:"green"]Crazy Love[/color]". (If we ever set sail for distant horizons, we'll name the cruiser "[color:"green"]Moondance[/color]".)

Wow, B is a bit long.....some of my prior boats: '87 18 magnum "Wingin' It"; '88 Beneteau "Mon Amy" (my wife's name); that big Sea Ray I wasted a ton of $$$ on "Tradin' Up"....my current and favorite boat:

Smokin'

Jeff Worman
SC17

The best name I ever saw was on a tornado:
" [color:"blue"] [/color] Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."

There was an Australian cat named:
" [color:"red"] [/color] LIGHT BLUE TOUCH PAPER AND GET AWAY" (a warning printed on fireworks)

My P16 was "Rapid Transit"

My current Nacra 5.2 is "Unleaded"

Enjoy your P16. I will never forget mine.
-colin

One of the better one's I've seen: "Sonova Beach"

My first Hobie 18 was "Cat Nap", and after I switched to custom black sails they became "Black Magic", "Merlin", "Black Cat", "Magus", and then "Trident" after my companies. My Hobie 14T's were "Yeller Cat" and "Blue Cat", and my Hobie 17 was "Slo Cat". My 35' twin screw is named "Hakuna Mutata" by my kids after the Lion King "No Worries" theme. My current Taipan 4.9 is yet unnamed, but I'm leaning to "The Shadow."

Say Andrew, let's get some cats into the Sarasota Sailing Squadron racing series. There are a gazillion cats stored up there but none of them look like they've been in the water for years. I sail regularly off the beach in front of my house here on Casey Key Island just north of the Venice Jetty. Can't miss my black sails. I went out this past weekend and lapped the monohulls in their distance regatta.

Jon Hamlet
Taipan 4.9 #217

Another good one............ "Follow Me"........

Simple, and gets the point across!

I still like mine the best. I was unaware that there was another until I checked this thread. And there is a "2" as well? Oh well...... Still original in my mind......

Check the attachment......

AJ
Nacra 6.0 Express (Blow Me)

I really like 'Blow Me' too but Bonnie would never let me go out in public with that on my boat

I'm still quite happy with my "Flippen Fearless" too. However, I've learned that it is bad luck to name two boats the same thing. My N5.2 was named "Flippen Fearless" and I never once capsized that boat during a regatta (only on occasion when really pushing it while out recreationally). Once I named my new 6.0NA the same thing, I capsized in nearly every regatta I entered at least once per weekend. I have since appended the name with "again!?" and haven't capsized since. (knock on wood).

I have been thinking of naming my Nacra 5.2 "Pure Adrenaline!" or "Adrenaline Rush!"

Terry

My former Tornado was called "Disaster Area". My current boat is "DoubleMint" since it has dark green/minty decks. I've got a Marstrom on it's way and I'm starting to think of a name for it. So far I've got "Full Tilt", "Twister", "Snuffleluffagus" (a reference to the spinny snuffer), or since Tuesday, "Terminator" refering to Arnold S.'s win here in CA.

Other names I've seen on cats over the years:
"Psych Job" on an 18SX owned by a psychologist.
"Shear Force" on a T-boat.
"Peppermint Catty" on a light green T-boat.
"Panty Buncher" a T-boat once owned by the daughter of a former Tornado Builder in Canada (SailCraft).
"No More Mister Nice Guy" on a T-boat in Toronto.
"Katamoorangmaroo" on a T-boat.
"Great White" on a T-boat
"Blew Job" on a blue T-boat.

On a larger recreational cat... "Cat House". Funny, but it had a red anchor light, too....

I used to be "Katastrophy", but got faster sails..
"flying hairball" sounds too slow
"Kat Scratch Fever" is too cliche'
"2 fast" is probably over-used

maybe "I got your room at the mark" ???

"Blew By You" on my wifes N5.7. She wants me to name my N5.2 "Water Lilly". I don't think so.

Mike
N5.7, N5.2, 6 horses, 3 cats, two gold fish and a dog.

I was going to name my RV "Cathouse" but that didn't go over well at home either...

It's the "Sailing Shack" instead...still not totally satisfied with the graphic yet though.

(HEY!!!! 1000 freakin' posts and I'm still just a 'decent' sailor!??)

After reading 4000 names on boatus.com, I think I've finally decided on "Double Time" (I used to be a drummer, so it fits). Now, for the graphic???

There's a big (50 or 60 ft) racing cat in Brazil with this name. It was second to Nicator (ex-Lakota)in the last Cape to Rio. But I think it doesn't really matter...

Cheers,
Luiz

Jake:

Make the multicolored panel a gradient instead

hmmm...I could do that but it would cost a small fortune in ink on vinyl. I might try that though....

Resurrecting this old thread...

While in Monterey I saw this fishing boat hauling out…named “FILLET SHOW”.

I passed it off as some fisherman thing until I spoke the name out loud. I chuckled and pointed it out to my wife who laughed. My teenage daughter stared at it for quite a while and then got REALLY embarrassed when she finally figured it out. Her idiot pizza-faced boyfriend kept saying loudly “I don’t get it…FILLET SHOW, FILLET SHOW”??? I saw my daughter jab him in the ribs and tell him to shut up, she'd explain later. I pushed him off the pier.

DP
Dunedin, FL
Mystere 5.0XL “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride” (not that different from Fillet Show)

Dave, Thanks for the laugh!

Ok, throw me off the dock with the pizza-faced kid, 'cause I don't get it either. Does it only work when you're speaking American?

if you don't get it you've got to put your head further in the gutter and try again, hehehhehhe

Well it's not everyday that I find my head's not in the gutter enough.

Dave, isn't it a good thing if your teenage daughte's Boyfreind genuinely doesn't get that? Or was he just being a pain?

Ok, I got it. I think it helps with a Southern accent. Or maybe it's just Friday . . .

A friend had a fishing boat around the Chesapeake Bay area called "The Crack of Dawn". We tried for years to get him to admit that he had actually searched for a girlfriend (he finally found a year AFTER naming the boat) whose name was.........DAWN. Ended up marrying her and never changed the name of the boat.

"hull raiser" a guy here has "wave magnet"

Well, my wife and family are not too keen on sailing my ARC21 so we bought a SEA RAY 24' and it was dubbed "PLAN B"

Eric, I am very sad to hear of the Sea Ray, but sometimes you have to go to extremes to please the family. By the way I've never seen Breaking Wind on a boat. You are a hoot!

How about "Knot a Clew" ?

I think Mary should look into her boat being "The Lady and the Tramp". Mary? (But on secoond thought, people might be confused and think it referred to Rick and maybe this isn't such a good idea after all....)

Are suggesting that Rick is a Lady, or Mary is a tramp?
"Yer on slippery ice Bro"

Quick, How do I cancel a posting!!!!!!!!!!!

Click on edit on the top right of the post...... Ha!

Ooooooooo.

Bullswan,
You just gave me a great idea for a name for my Wave, "Lady on the Tramp."

It's a lot better than the name that came with a Laser I bought a long time ago. It was "Yssup Tew." You figure it out.

Mary, I am sooo glad you took it the way it was intended. I thought it was pretty clever so I passed it on to you.My nine year old son actually came up with it. I can't take the credit.
I also have to confess that I don't get the previous name for your laser, but I'm not through working on it! Probably be muttering it to myself over and over all day.
Good sailing.
Greg

Greg,
The clue is that Lasers spend a lot of time upside down, so look at the name from that perspective. Please remember that I did not give it the name -- it came with the boat.

Ha! Nicely naughty?

Maybe writing it as "yssuP teW" gives you a clue...

I was thinking about a different name for Port and Starboard, maybe some smart remark like "Give way!" on one side and "Problem?" on the other. (Will take suggestions!)

This is also a cool idea, it translates to Watermirror...


-Tony_FX1

We're doing graphics for a J24 called "No Hable Starboard"

Okay. Got it. Duhhh.

I kept getting stuck with "tew" being a cutesy way of spelling two. Or II. Upside down worked out to "met dnssh" by the way, Mary.

I definitely think "Lady on a tramp" would be a step-up!

Sorry, you're right, it's backwards, not upside down.

Mary, my mind is just to pure, wholesome, and unadulterated to get that? What does a drenched cat have to so with sailing?
Trey
N20 314
Layline Rigging
www.velocitysailing.com

But that's just it - Wet Cat.....

(except of course, a Laser is not a cat)

Well, it is cat-rigged, so it is actually a cat boat.

Now you're stretching it.

Oops, sorry, didn't mean that as it came out

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Trey
N20 314
Layline Rigging
www.velocitysailing.com

I thought of another "Cat Name" today... "Two Fast"

I don't care who you are, that just good!

This forum is disgusting .Bring back the old forum!

Back in 1985, Miami, Fl., the local J24 fleet had an all girl boat, pretty good sailors too. The name of their boat was Cunning Stunt. Swear to God.

I crewed on a glossy black black boat named Sambo, but that was way before "politicaly correct" was a known term.

I still think "little bass turd" is a great name for a fishing boat. For my I-20, I was gonna put a huge "D" on each hull, and then name the boat "Double D's." Girlfriend said nay.....oh well....maybe she just has too much class for me?
Trey
N20 314
Layline Rigging
www.velocitysailing.com

Well, for what it's worth, if I ever get around to naming my P-18, I'm gonna call it "See Shel"

Sheldon

Actually Trey,

I denied that name.

I refuse to sail on a boat that sounds like it was named after a stinkpot.

At the 2001 Ruff Rider, the logistics boat was a shrimp boat named 'WIDE LOAD'

Asked the skipper about the name. He said that the boat had been hauled about on land for years, never finished out until he bought it (and then not terribly finished). so when he bought the boat, it had its towing banner across it... WIDE LOAD. He figured the boat'd had that name for so long, he wasn't gonna change it.

Not a bad name for a cat.

'WIDE LOAD' - Not a bad name for a cat.

Just don`t tell his wife he named the boat after her !

Took some people off the beach for an introductory ride to the world of catamarans and when the wind hit the sails and we took off the guy said, "God, that was like a controlled explosion!"
I thought that might make a good name.... "Controlled Explosion"

I'm going to name my cat "Exploding White Mice."

Well, I know this might be traditionalist and sentimental and not very creative, but my father named all his sailboats for his two daughters -- Mary-Bet. At least it made us kids feel involved and important and part of it all.

My sister and her husband named their catamarans "Mush Monk," which were based upon nicknames for their children.

And, guess what, all four of those kids (Mary, Bet, Mush and Monk) are sailors.