Best ever boat names

[Baitrunner]

Thought this would be fun...

 

Obviously there are a few crackers on the Broads and maybe a few owned by members of this forum so lets hear them folks. If they have a special meaning then lets hear about that as well.

 

My first boat was a 16ft Mayland. During a business trip to Brussels I was introduced to a rather nice French apple cognac which I may have over indulged on.  Deciding on the name of my new boat at work and discounting the obvious rude suggestions I went for..... Calvados! Boring, but appropriate.

 

OK, first boat on the Broads we bought was called Want One! I so desperately wanted to name our second boat Want One 2!! 

[Poppy]

Seen a Freeman on the Thurne called 'String of Pearls, which made mi wife snigger

[fishtone]

Had a small Mayland once. When I bought it the name had been removed,but when you looked carefully you could see it had been called Little Tart.

[Mirage]

There's a Hampton Safari I've seen on the Broads called "Passing Wind"

 

Simon

[Chelsea14Ian]

this year on our hols there was a boat moored in front of us at south walsham called the cods pollocks

Ian

[JennyMorgan]

Old hat now but back in the 60's there was a Merlin Rocket called Pheasant Plucker and another one called Pistol Dawn, very daring back then. Since then some names have sometimes become overtly suggestive, and not very clever,  but I suppose that is a sign of the times. 

[BroadScot]

Errr you mean JM the likes of the one that was at Reedham years ago, I think belonging to the landlord of the Lord Nelson at the time..... Norfolk n Good or something like that.

 

 

Iain.

[donnygeoff]

One of my favourites was one that I saw in Cornwall, moored on the river Fowey.

 

The sea going cruiser was called LOVE ME, which is not funny or special until you saw the name on the side of the rib it carried

 

LOVE ME TENDER

 

[JennyMorgan]

Errr you mean JM the likes of the one that was at Reedham years ago, I think belonging to the landlord of the Lord Nelson at the time..... Norfolk n Good or something like that.

 

 

Iain.

That one was/is clever!

[andy]

I saw one this year called moist beaver

[BroadAmbition]

 

Love that one - no idea what it means of course

 

Our chosen name for 'B.A' whilst not in the slightest funny (Tisn't meant to be anyway) arrived by the (then) six of us all having to come up wwith a suitable name.

They were:- Fellowship,  Cindy-Kate,  Overdraft,  Norfolk-n-Chance, the computer driven one with all our initials was Shadow Magic or Magic Shadow  then of course 'Broad Ambition' whcih was unanmiously agreed upon. Broad - obvious and Ambition as it has always been an ambition to have our own boat on the Broads - simples really

 

 

Griff

[Polly]

Our dinghy is called Whimp in memory of a cat who was as tough as old boots, and knew we were teasing when we called him that. There is a black cat on the mainsail. Not funny but it does make people smile.

I think Brilliant is awesomely well named, which is why the change of her name to 'Gannet' at one point is puzzling, good thing she got back to her 'proper' original name.

[Springsong]

Back in the day when Bubble Gap was called Bubble she had a tender called Squeak T/T Bubble. Always fascinated me as a kid, easily pleased me.

[Springsong]

Talking of which the sign writer (allegedly) was asked to write Bubble      gap   Grt. Yarmouth so he wrote Bubblegap and the  name has stuck.

[Baitrunner]

I knew you lot wouldnt disappoint me with this one.

[JennyMorgan]

There is a speedboat on the Broads called 'Esiotrot', I'm sure that you are all sharp enough to work it out for yourselves!! I think that it is rather clever. By the way, the owner doesn't come from Norfolk!!

[Baitrunner]

I have to throw this one in - not quite a boat name, but it is on the side of his boats as well (he has a couple of boats with 1 and 2 after the name).

 

In the Grenadines there is a guy who controls some of the moorings off Bequia. I did actually refuse to call him up on the VHF as I thought my brother was having a laugh with me, but this is the guys radio name and he has it on the side of his dinghy (I refuse to say Handle as it's not CB radio). Phat Shag. Please now try and put this in the context of calling someone up on a VHF   

 

Now both words obviously have a genuine (if you know street talk) and slang meaning, but it obviously refers to an awesome sea bird like a Cormorant.

 

As per JM, I will assume you can work out any other potential innuendos?

[CheshireCat]

Many years ago I nearly bought a tournament ski boat called Wet Dreams ...

[C.Ricko]

I had a boat moored in Nch I names  'Yare baby'

there was a Bourne 40 here named Rollocks  which had a 'arty' 'R' when it went to the Thames they were told

to change the name!

[BroadScot]

I had a boat moored in Nch I names  'Yare baby'

there was a Bourne 40 here named Rollocks  which had a 'arty' 'R' when it went to the Thames they were told

to change the name!

Yes, it wouldn't go down well passing Windsor!! What!

 

Iain.

[SteveO]

I saw a nice little boat moored at Fleet Dyke called "The Cod's Pollocks".

Liked that one.

Steve

[MBA Marine]

I had a boat moored in Nch I names  'Yare baby'

there was a Bourne 40 here named Rollocks  which had a 'arty' 'R' when it went to the Thames they were told

to change the name!

Clive 'Yare Baby' is still at the old Hearts yard.

[Brian J.]

A few years ago, a fellow member of my sailing club had an Enterprise dinghy called 'Beats Gardening'.

[donnygeoff]

Another one has just come to mind, on the broads.

In my mind a very good play on words with too meanings....

 

HALF A RANSOM

 

One meaning in money terms, the other, the COOT CLUB author 

 

[quo vadis]

Thanks for explaining that Geoff