Mary; Stir the pot! There were a bunch of ladies at GYC! Rattle their chains a little!

Double Trouble.
Then Absence of Reason
Then Reasonable Absence
Current one is called Tyresmoke.net / www.web.co.uk
and the next one will be "One Hungry Monster" / www.web.co.uk

I always name my boats. I think that if you think a boat might have a personality, all of mine have, you would name it.

The boat that we are sailing now is called [color:"purple"]Diamond Girl[/color]. As in high maintainence woman. She is a Formula 18 and likes to be paid attention to, as all women do. When I am not sailing on weekends I usually do some maintainence or make improvements to the boat. I put the name on the boat.

Dan

Awesome! I didn't even know what wikipedia was, now it's on my favorites list.

Thanks.

I hadn't really considered naming my boat until this thread. I am just so happy to be getting one that I didn't think about it. I like Celtic names.

My last name is Annon. It is pronounced so that it rhymes with the name Shannon. Being in the United States it is hard to tell where it came from. I know my family once lived in Ireland but had immigrated there from someplace in the Netherlands (probably) but we are not sure where. It seems Annon in an unusual name in any country. If I knew where my family's homeland was I would look for a name from there.

Thanks for the info Rolf. If I remember correctly I think Loki also built the Skibladner for Freyr as repayment for a debt.

Skiblander was buildt by the sons if Ivalde (dwarfs) on Lokis request, before he gave it to Frøya. Skibladner was just one of the gifts Loki gave the Æsir, others was Thors hammer Mjollnir, Odins ring Draupnir etc. It was not exactly as repayment for a debt, but an attempt to get on the good side of the Æsir after the history where he cut the hair of Siv (Thors wife). Half of the artifacts was made during a bet between Loki and some dwarfs, with his head as the price if he lost (he won).

Would you trust this man
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Loki_Iceland.jpg


The old norse mythology is quite fun reading for children if you just omit the gory details.

My first two boats had yellow hulls so One Banana Two Banana and One Banana Two Banana II seemed appropriate.

My daughter wants to name our H16 Papita Esperanza thinking that it ment loosly translated "Little potato of sorrow" what a screw ball. It would actualy be more like "Little potato of hope"

Now that is just strange.

The following are the boats that I've sailed and named over the past few years.

Orange Prindle 18 - Soggy Cheetoh
Nacra 6.0Na - Liquid Courage
Acat - Liquid Courage Lite

Alec

My Nacra 5.2 went unnamed for years until I sunk the starboard hull for the second time. While drying out and repairing the hole I decided on "Catastrophe".
The second sinking happened while I was sailing home from the Provincials with a first place trophy on board. So I combined Cat and trophy and the name stuck.

The next boat is going to be a Blade. I am buying it with inheritance money from my great Uncle Bob. What with the Blade being shorter but scrappier I ended up with Bobcat (Which I also used as my screen name.) I went so far as to design myself a T-Shirt.

Bobcat:


Do you still have the artwrok ? It would be a great T-shirt minus your name and F16 since I sail another boat.

Doug

A bunch of us were out single handing H16s on a lake. One boat went over but, because he was behind everyone else, wasn't noticed at first. When we realized he wasn't there we went back to find him.

By the time we got back he and the boat had drifted into a large, low bushy tree. That night around the campfire his boat was officially named Bushwacker.

My little boat was called:

My current boat is "Lethal Weapon" after my previous boat (Comfortably Numb) had 2 - 3 confirmed kills in the last few months of ownership. My other boat was called "Catapult" and the next will probably be "Ninja Turtle" but I'll make up my mind when I get it.

A friend just put a new Tiger on the water and has called it "Whacking Day" with a picutre of Homer Simpson looking like a ninja on the side - looks awesome!

Tiger Mike

John:

Nice pic. What kind of boat is that? Your website link doesn't work. What is up with the 4.3 forum. Did it die?

Doug Snell
Hobie17
Soon to be Mystere 4.3
www.tcdyc.com

"Tempus fugit" time flies
I named my first monohull "Tempus" (Latin for time- meaning I am doing time in the USAF and needed a toy). The only thing to name my cat was "fugit"

Although
"more controlled than it looks" sounds good, but is a little long

That's my old 4.3. Link fixed.

4.3 forum just isn't very active right now - not dead.

LOL "little potato of hope" that is the sweetest thing I have ever heard. I LOVE that name.

I laughed out loud on that one hehe. Great name

So it looks like Im going to go with the name "Honu".

I even designed the logo (see attachment)

The 3 is there because I graduated in 03 so the "O" is the letter O for the word "honu" and the number "0" for "03"