Did you give your rib a name?

[citygent111]

........ and do you HAVE to name your boat?

If you did name it - what and why?!!!

[leehebs]

I named mine when I registered its DSC VHF, So Hebdiver, as I am from the Outer Hebrides and I Dive ��������

[willk]

I call mine "the willkcraft" because... well, you probably get it!

[Sutty]

I am very lucky, I have two RIBs one is called Spare Rib and the other one is called It’ll do

[Chanchan168]

My rib is called JAZCABEL after my three girls: Jasmine, Cassis and Belle.

[Voodoo]

Called our rib Voodoo, after a previous boat we had....and we still had jackets with the name on....made sense... :-)

[neil.mccrirrick]

Called ours miss Isle she was already called that but had no outboard when we bought her. Now she has a 225 opti and can break 50 mph so it seems, apt

[Dry Run]

Called it Hullabaloo as it's a Humber and has a noisy Opti 225 on the back

[wgc851]

daughter named it 'pumpkin'
Quite fitting as it orange and slowly decomposing

[RickW]

Mine is called Matchless after my Grandad’s boat in WW2 - other half suggested Agapanthus which was a meh from me

[Nasher]

Our RIB is called 'The Nashers Revenge'.

It's obviously partly due to me being known as Nasher from my very early schooldays due to my Surname.

Partly it's a play on the name of Edward Teach's(Blackbeard's) flagship 'The Queen Anne's Revenge'.

And partly it's a two finger salute to the people who didn't think I shouldn't have it, which is a long story.

Nasher

[Pikey Dave]

Our RIB is Black Pig, after the Captain Pugwash books I was obsessed with as a kid. The SIB is called Piglet, which seems apt.

[Ferryman]

Our boat is called Clear Dawn as that's what we're called in New Zealand - my wife is Claire and I'm Don.

[Limecc]

I've never named/renamed any our boats. The first one was called Volante 390 , the next was White Mischief 2, and after this Bambini.

Don't have the story behind White Mischief but Bambini (Italian: little children) so called because the original lady owner used to take her dogs on it and she called them her babies.

[Ribtecer]

Originally Posted by Ferryman

Our boat is called Clear Dawn as that's what we're called in New Zealand - my wife is Claire and I'm Don.

That's brilliant, love it.

[Brian]

My first was called Cyanide-because that was it's colour.
My second was called Saffron-because that was it's colour and it was piggin expensive.

(Do you see a pattern occurring here?)

My third will probably called Salamander. It will probably be only used by me to paddle cross the River Styx in order to save my money from Charon.

(Salamander, is, incidentally good name to -repeat over VHF, it is easily recognisable by (say) foreign VHF operators, it is easy to say and more than 2 syllables long.)

[jeffstevens763@g]

Fast fisher was called naughty-gal after the wife, the rib was called knot so naughty, my sib was a Mercury (mer curry)so I called it spy-sea-one.

[Jeff]

Sea Quell ,,, my second rib and always praying for calm seas [emoji848]

1st one was HPEMA NEPA ,, the anglicised version of the Greek ήρεμα νερά (írema nerá) ,, calm waters

,,, a bugger for the vhf comms with the coastguard....

[Sibfisher]

I named my sib boat;- Sibfisher
Its a Sib I like fishing it seemed to me the right name to give it.

[GuyC]

Tickler because it is a RIB and I have a childish sense of humour.