Where does your RIB name originate?

[Nasher]

I’m interested(Nosey) in how others have come up with the name for their Boat.
Obviously there have been a couple that have originated through threads on here.

I’ll start.
My Ocean is called ‘The Nashers Revenge’.

There are several reasons for this.
Firstly, I have a sad interest in the history and characters of Pirating. Edward Teach, Blackbeard’s, most famous ship was called ‘The Queen Anne’s Revenge’ and I wanted to come up with a name that played with that.

I’ve been known as ‘Nasher’ by friends since I was a small child.

I brought the RIB as a complete Wreck, and have re-built and re-fitted it on a budget, partly due to being made redundant 3 times during that period, and not working for some of it. So the name has become a two fingered gesture to everyone that has made me redundant whilst I’ve managed to hold on to it despite coming incredibly close several times to having to sell it to live off the money tied up in it.

Nasher.

[Tim M]

We called the university RIB Snakebite, as this is the students choice of beverage.

[Ian M]

This is going to be embarrassing
Well, when trying to name my previous RIB, my eldest son was going through a Deep Purple phase, and having a history with old tech racing 2 strokes, one of their songs came to mind. Mind, I do feel sorry for the new owner, "Smoke on the Water" three times is a mouth full.......
Not sure whether the current one is any better or worse; after the previous effort I wanted a one or two syllable name, and our family names are Ian, Ann, Andrew, and John
It's the best we could manage

[bedajim]

I had boxes full of pieces and put them together so Jigsaw

The avon was called Ziggy

Same as the wife's favourite horse (it worked as she loved the Avon too)

[Northern Tim]

Northern Lite

1.I'm Northern and proud
2.The boat is dead lightweight (I'm not!)

I wanted to go with something along the lines of Jaffa cakes, it being orange but I discovered several other boats in my cruising area were called Jaffa.

[Nos4r2]

Kinda seemed suitable for an ex military boat really.

[karlT]

A friend had a boat called "Business".

Very sad I thought until out fishing one day and the office rang him. His comment was "sorry, out on Business, will sort it out tomorrow"

[Sinistre1]

The Galileo 7. I'm admittedly a star trek fan and it is the name of one of the shuttles from the original series. The Galileo 7 was about a small shuttle (3.4M sib) they take it out pretty far and get lost (bought a gps for this reason) and Mr. Spock has to make an irrational decision/ gambit to save the lives of the crew. It was one of my favorite episodes and it seemed an appropriate name for a small boat (one that would probably be sailed well past what would be prudent).

[Rogue Wave]

I name mine after songs. albums or artists I love

Tumbling Dice
Wake up Call
Dyna Mo Humm (nee Bugle Billy)
Stevie Rayvon

[jwalker]

Water birds.

[BruceB]

My last boat was called RIBtickle which was mostly the wifes choice (she has a somewhat unsophisticated sense of humour), the new one was almost called RIBTickle Too but I decided on something a bit less twee.
I originally looked at Gaelic mythology for a name but all the relevant ones would have just been horrendous for saying over the VHF and would have to have been spelt each time. So I picked the best one that sounded half decent in English. It is the name from mythology of the Gaelic sea gods magic boat that required neither wind nor sail to move from place to place. He must have had a good outboard, probably a Seagull that long ago........

[BogMonster]

AFAIK mine was named after Amundsen's ship 'Fram' which wandered around these parts at one point:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram

It probably wouldn't have been my choice but I figured I have had enough bad luck without renaming it

[Limey Linda]

" INDE" short for Indefatigable (HMS) and C.S. Forester's Hornblower books.

[BruceB]

Was that not spelt INDY in the books or am I havering again?

[Limey Linda]

Originally Posted by BruceB

Was that not spelt INDY in the books or am I havering again?

You could well be right. Have no means of checking at the mo. However, INDE it is cos I have just stuck the lettering on.

[ashbypower]

I think you'll find it's HMS Indefatigable.

[Limey Linda]

Originally Posted by ashbypower

I think you'll find it's HMS Indefatigable.

Correct. Have done an edit on my post, thanks

[Hightower]

I asked 5,348 RIBnet members, then chose a completely different name

[Chris]

Mines pretty straight forward. Named after a line out of my favourite movie. If you don't know the movie then you should be shot!!

Chris

[ashbypower]

Originally Posted by Chris

Mines pretty straight forward. Named after a line out of my favourite movie. If you don't know the movie then you should be shot!!

Chris

Ok Broad sword!!