Boat names anyone

I always scoff at the overused puns. Owners attempting to be clever, seldom accomplish their goal. Some of my (least) favorites;

Knot on Call
Seas the Day
Codfather
Buoyoncé
Ship Happens
Master Baiter

...you get the idea.
 
I always scoff at the overused puns. Owners attempting to be clever, seldom accomplish their goal. Some of my (least) favorites;

Knot on Call
Seas the Day
Codfather
Buoyoncé
Ship Happens
Master Baiter

...you get the idea.
These are all very cringy. I'd agree, most are inside jokes that seemed funny at the time, people think you're just an a$$hat for the pun... including my suggestion.
 
These are all very cringy. I'd agree, most are inside jokes that seemed funny at the time, people think you're just an a$$hat for the pun... including my suggestion.
Agree. So many "seas the day" and "knot on call". It's neither original nor amusing after you've seen it so many times.
 
I don't know how often it's used, but I really wanted to name my current boat "Defiant". I'm kind of a Trek nerd and it would have been subtle nod to one of the more tougher ships in that universe. It would have looked great in gold leaf.

My wife initially didn't want to carry Jennifer B (her name) over to the new boat, and I thought I had a chance. If course I didn't tell about about the Trek linkage because she just tolerates my Trek-nerd-dom. I said that it was also honoring her attitude toward life. In the end she still wanted her name on the boat.
 
Don’t have our boat yet but I had planned on naming it after the air craft carrier that my father served in Vietnam . MN Saratoga
 
A friend named his boat "For Play". I told him never expect me to call him on the radio. I just could not bring myself to say that on the VHF.
 
Named ours “OVER WEIGHT”, no obvious
Reasons.
 
That would be an awesome experience for him.
Ya , we are best friends in every way . His mind if failing so our new conversations are fairly simple . I haven’t told him that I plan to buy a big water boat which is foreign since we always spoke of everything. Well anyway ,found my boat 390 Sedan near Chicago !
Now just have to find funding and get her home .
 
I don't know how often it's used, but I really wanted to name my current boat "Defiant". I'm kind of a Trek nerd and it would have been subtle nod to one of the more tougher ships in that universe. It would have looked great in gold leaf.

My wife initially didn't want to carry Jennifer B (her name) over to the new boat, and I thought I had a chance. If course I didn't tell about about the Trek linkage because she just tolerates my Trek-nerd-dom. I said that it was also honoring her attitude toward life. In the end she still wanted her name on the boat.
We are getting ready to rename our 340. Defiant was on the final 4 list.
We are probably going with Defiance. Solid US navy gunboats name.

Back on topic, I crew on a racing sailboat, and will never set foot on a boat named 3 sheets to the wind.
 
2 sheets is ok. 4 sheets is ok, but 3 sheets is unbalanced. much like a drunken sailer.

The way it was explained to me some 50+ years ago from my grandfather was, that a poorly maintained windmill, with a tattered and torn sheet that didn't cover one of the blades leaving only "3 sheets to the wind" would start to wobble and eventfully fall over "much like a drunken sailor"
Maybe that was just grand pop's story but it sure made sense to me.
 
The way it was explained to me some 50+ years ago from my grandfather was, that a poorly maintained windmill, with a tattered and torn sheet that covered the blade leaving only "3 sheets to the wind" would start to wobble and eventfully fall over "much like a drunken sailor"
Maybe that was just grand pop's story but it sure made sense to me.

Yep. I've heard that story as well. I've also heard anecdotes referring the sheets (ropes) on a sail-boat.
 

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