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First boat, a 17' Starcraft center console - "Lady K".
Second boat, a 1980 Sea Ray SRV 225- "Summersalt", which is self explanatory.
Third boat, a Cruisers 2670 Rogue - stayed with "Summersalt", as we thoroughly enjoy summers on the salt water.
Present boats - 30' Sea Ray - "Summersalt" and 13' Boston Whaler - "Summersalt too". :wink:
 
We wanted to combine the model of Sea Ray and our favorite speed with something my wife and I can do together. So logically, we decided on. SLOW DANCE.


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The name came about as a way to honor our beloved friend, traveling companion and family member - Otis. Otis was a dog my wife got from the rescue league in southern Michigan. When we all started boating together we were not sure if Otis would enjoy or be comfortable boating, well he was. After an initial season and a bit of learning on all our parts he became quite at home on the boat and water.

Our home port was Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin for 4 years and Otis went everywhere with us on the boat. He logged a lot of hours and miles on both Green Bay and Lake Michigan. Otis made the "crossing" with us in good weather and bad. He was quite content sitting with us at the helm while we were underway. While Otis was not much of a water dog, he sure liked being on the water and boat with us; hence we began calling him the Salty Dog.

In 2005 we moved to Michigan and kept the boat in Frankfort where Otis quickly became a popular fixture around the marina. Otis passed away on August 29, 2005, after a valiant fight with a troublesome illness. He was a great boat dog, traveling companion, friend and member of the family. He will be truly missed on the boat, the water and around the marina.

We lost Otis prior to acquiring the new boat and we were not sure what to call her. In the meantime we acquired another family member that we hoped would enjoy the water and boating as much as Otis, his name is Waldo. So, in an attempt to honor our dear friend, and in hopes that our new friend would carry on the tradition, we named our new boat Salty Dog.

Waldo has truly taken to the boat and traveling with us. He too likes to sit in my lap at the helm. He does shake a bit when the engines start but settles in. He is content wearing his life jacket and just hanging out with us. He has become our Salty Dog.

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Lotta Nuts - I had to sell a lot of nuts to pay for her. :lol:
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And all this time I thought it had something to do with all the nuts/crazies in GA :lol:
 
We put a lot of thought into this, and came up with several good ones! However my wife came up with Aarrh & Aarrh and we knew it was the winner. My wife and I are both in the USAF (17 year each) so we thought that a reference to R & R would be a good name. But there are quite a few boats named the R & R so since our boat is black we went with the pirate Aarrh & Aarrh. Now we tell everyone that it means rest and relaxation for pirates!!!!!

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Previous boat (well still a current boat as we haven't sold it yet) came previously named Cabina.

The "new" '87 270 came unnamed so we have decided to call her Monte Bello after one of our favorite wines and the beautiful mountains of Vermont.
 
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We put a lot of thought into this, and came up with several good ones! However my wife came up with Aarrh & Aarrh and we knew it was the winner. My wife and I are both in the USAF (17 year each) so we thought that a reference to R & R would be a good name. But there are quite a few boats named the R & R so since our boat is black we went with the pirate Aarrh & Aarrh. Now we tell everyone that it means rest and relaxation for pirates!!!!!

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Have had way too many boats to go through all of the names.
Some of the good ones were:
When I was a 'rag bagger' still was a little irreverent and kind of the scourge of the fleet for having a large cloud graphic of a female's face on the side of my Cal 25 followed by "Go B'Low"
My first Sea Ray 210SRV was "No Grief"
Had one named "Gambol" means frolic about
May last Sea Ray 340 was "Second Wind"

And my new 350 EB is pictured below, was newly named this past Saturday, "Dancing on the Water"
I think all boat owners will agree, some times that's just the way it feels to all of us when we are enjoying our vessels.
 

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Nice Aft... when we were looking at the 220 Select at our local Sea Ray dealer one of our favorite things was the integrated extended swim platform.

We are planning on lettering our Jet Ski as well... Lil' Aft. :grin:
 
Bought my current Sea Ray (360DA) when I was 2 weeks on SRO.

I was welcomed very good, but still I was one of the members that come not from the USA.
You have a lot of Sea Rays in America!!

Here in the Netherlands I am one of the few with a Sea Ray.

So for that reasons I named my new boat...

"Outsider" Peter.
 

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Mike,
She is a beauty, despite the ramblin wreck homage. But where is your juvenile diesel engine esprit in your profile?

I am saddened by this oversight.

GO DAWGS!

Skip
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Thanks, I guess. :cool:

I haven't come up with anything catchy yet. Also, I think my boat is a bit heavier than yours, and I don't quite feel that turbo kick up on the bridge. I hear it, but I don't feel it too much. In fact, I don't hear or feel the engines too much at all on the bridge. I was actually astounded at how little I hear them.

I have only logged about 5 hours behind the wheel in the past few weeks (been really windy here, and I'm a little reluctant to dock in high winds until I get used to driving a giant sail). I am eagerly anticipating feeling the kick. Maybe I'll upgrade the sig then.
 
We haven't officially named her but my friends call her the "Widowmaker" because they tend to get hurt when I pull them tubing or skiing. So far no lawsuits yet!!
 
i have a buddy, an orthodontist, who has one of these - he named it...

Brace Yourself
 

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My father had a 30-something foot Owens that he ran up and down the bay before my mother and him started dating. They had to sell the boat to buy a house after the wedding when my mother got pregnent with me. Considering my birthday is in February, there is a pretty good chance I was conceived on that old cruiser. :wink:

My father died when I was 10. Flash forward thirty-some years. After growing up in central NY, we moved to southern Maryland. After years of thinking about it, we bought our first boat, a 260 DA. Since noone remembered the name of the Owens, I wanted to come up with something honoring my father. I think it was on SRO when I was recounting this story and the name just came to me - Full Circle. The 320DA is Full Circle II.

Having lost my father when I was young, I never really got to know him as a person. This will sound odd, but I feel close to him when I am out on the water, cruising the same waters he did all those years ago.

-CJ
 
The name of my previous boat was Prodigal Son (hence the screen name). The story behind that is... I grew up a power boater, then I switched to sail. When I told my parents I was buying a sailboat you would have thought I was telling them I had chosen some other "alternative lifestyle..." Anyway, I took a decade-long detour where I owned four different sail boats ranging from 27' to 42'.

In 2004 we returned to power, hence the name "Prodigal Son" like the story in the bible "... and the Prodigal Son returned and was welcomed with open arms..."

Additionally, the word "prodigal" is defined as "wasteful and excessive" and I figured there was nothing more wasteful and excessive than two big gas-guzzling 8.1L big blocks. Or so I thought...
 
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