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Boat Names

These are just potential names, in no particular order, from long lists compiled by myself over many years. Perhaps you will find in them some inspiration. I may have some unintentional duplicates.

I've named my last two boats - after months and sometimes years, and pages and pages of ideas, after grandmothers - Stella B. and Ksenia. (My current boat, as of the Fall of 2008, needs renaming and I'm having the same old problem.) Seems to have worked out well, although people have trouble pronouncing the previous one (a Russian name). Warning: names that are too "cute" may not wear well.

I used to say that my ideal boat name would:

1. sound nice (as in tripping melodiously from the tongue);
2. not be too long but also not too short;
3. have at least three layers of meaning:
   1. one humorous,
   2. one serious and
   3. one relating to something about us and/or about the boat;
4. be easy to understand, pronounce and spell over the radio, and
5. go well and without irony with "Mayday."

It turns out I think that's way too much to ask. Hence my recent grandmother policy! Charles T. Low

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-originally posted 2002-06-19
-updated 2009-05-23