Boat names to make you smile!

[jyasaki]

A guy here had a small (12'?) RIB called Baby Back.

jky

[nugent]

Seen a dive rib called


muff diva In exmouth

[nugent]

Also had this many years ago ,

[Ian_st]

My father's14' fishing boat is called "tough ship"

The exmouth harbour master looked rather odd when we said the name.. Guess he mis-heard!

[Nasher]

Two I've seen over the last couple of years have been:

A sailing yacht called 'Betty Swollocks'

A big motor yacht called 'Knight Twicely'
This one had an image of a Knight in armour holding a damsel in his arms.

Oh, and I almost forgot the 14ft Fletcher owned by Davy Buoys sons called:
'The Hairy Clam'

Nasher.

[JamesF]

Can't say I'd like to use some of these on the radio, but they make good photos!

You see a few good ones on sailing dinghies. I like "Snap Shackle & Plop".

[Bigmuz7]

Originally Posted by nugent

Seen a dive rib called


muff diva In exmouth

haha

[cptsideways]

Just been reminded, our old old boat was called "Willy Start"

[kubcat]

Originally Posted by Wibs

Seen it in Sydney - Port Botany.

[kubcat]

One of our local boats. I suspect someone played with the stickers and rearranged them but no one has changed it back in years.

[indaba1991]

Concrete boat in Cowes "Maid of Portland"

Also in Cowes "Usain Boat"

[beamishken]

A large cruiser in Largs called "SORRY KIDS"

[Tony B]

Originally Posted by Ovey

..............I'm a little "superstitious" about the supposed bad luck brought about by re-naming ships (boats)!

Don't be. Renaming goes back at least a few thousand years. The Romans and other civilizations renamed and used captured. Would have been quite insane to have sunk them considering all the time, labor and expense to build a ship back then.
There are many boat de-naming and re-naming ceremonies that can be copied off the web.
Type in your search bar "renaming a boat".

[Paul Cannell]

Originally Posted by SteveHall

I heard of someone calling a yacht 'Business' took me a while to realise the amazing potential with this..

"sorry I cant come shopping with you that weekend as I am away on business and not sure when I will be back..."

Northern Office, a motor yacht on Stony lake, Ontario

[willfinch36]

My old yacht & RIB

[Raccoon Jack]

My wife, seeing a picture of a two colour boat in choppy seas, suggested "Wet Patch"...

[lakelandterrier]

It can take some time to come up with decent witty boat name,- it took me ages to devise then decide on "Lunasea". Always consider in cold light of day how it it will sound on VHF, and whether it is more tacky than witty, some boat names I've seen are way beyond tacky.

I do like a clever boat name, whether it's an in-joke or a good play on words / spelling.

One I like locally is "Out of Office", my favourite is "A l'eau A l'eau" which is really clever in 2 ways. One I don't is called "Dripping Wet" or something like that.

I agree with the posters who have kept a boat name whether they are keen on it or not...I too think it is unlucky to rename a boat.

[willk]

Originally Posted by lakelandterrier

I do like a clever boat name, whether it's an in-joke or....

This lad is a smart cookie - and it looks like he's been getting his way with new boats over quite some time!!

Linky

I spotted him on AIS this summer and burst out laughing.

[Pikey Dave]

Originally Posted by willk

This lad is a smart cookie - and it looks like he's been getting his way with new boats over quite some time!!

Linky

I spotted him on AIS this summer and burst out laughing.

I had to Google that, shows my lack of a classic education [emoji849]. Very clever, I’m guessing the VI is the ironic part[emoji6]

[jeffstevens763@g]

There was an hard nosed osprey named redundo back in the nineties when the coal mines shut