what's in a name

[duncan (the other one)]

What Bull City seems to forget is that grandmothers were young women at one stage of their lives. They've seen it all before.

 

[kinardly]

Weren't those the guys who's slogan around Newport was "Daughters, hide your mothers"?

You should check out The Granny Grinders Trophy that used to be in Syd’s boathouse in Mosman Bay. Mundle showed it to me in the early ‘80s Apparently highly sought after by Syd’s Ragamuffin crew.

 

[One eye Jack]

The thin skin try’s to strike again..maybe this Karen should be encouraged to part ways with this yacht club..and the boating seen..what will she come up with next? Renaming that device that you crank to tighten sheets..how it could demoralize women? She really would get her knickers an a tight twist if she saw that boat a few years ago FIJIMO..or RUTHLESS…

 

[Pollination]

My Grandma was a Sailor, Great Grandma was too! One lived in Key West and played cards with the cuban fisherman.

They would never bother to read this website.

 

[TUBBY]

Weren't those the guys who's slogan around Newport was "Daughters, hide your mothers"?

That was the last Gretel 11 challenge.

 

[duncan (the other one)]

Extending the tradition of all the 'farr' names we used to have, it'd be great to have a Kerr and call it "Wayne"

 

[jasonsansfleece]

I once had it explained to me that a boats name had to pass the Yarmouth test, Yarmouth, being a harbor town on the Isle of Wight that on any summer day will be filled with tourists on the town quay eating fish and chips and ice cream and visiting yachts tied to the pilings just off the quay. You, having been rode ashore earlier for a beer at the pub have to hail your boat, at the pilings of the quay, where the crew are down below, relaxing with Sunday papers. With the throng around you, you cup your hands to your mouth and loudly call out your boats name…..
Pass?

 

[lahana]

So I put on my imagination cap and imagine that there is a third member of the human species other than man and woman. Kind of a Sasquatch person, bigger than most men and stronger. With a carnal appetite for men, a fondness for telling jokes about men's private parts and what they would like to do with them regardless of what those men wanted to hear or participate in. These sasquatches leer at men with desire in their eyes and urge men to wear clothing that exposes their butts. These creatures can easily overcome most men physically, and take pride in telling the other sasquatches how many men they have sodomized. After a few hundred thousand years of this treatment by the sasquatches, some men might speak up and say hey, you sasquatches are creepy assholes and we don't really want to play your games anymore, or even listen to your innuendo.
But that's just my imagination. Right? That doesn't really happen. Not to men anyway.

Should have spoken up right from the beginning,... now there's precedence!

 

[vokstar]

I once had it explained to me that a boats name had to pass the Yarmouth test, Yarmouth, being a harbor town on the Isle of Wight that on any summer day will be filled with tourists on the town quay eating fish and chips and ice cream and visiting yachts tied to the pilings just off the quay. You, having been rode ashore earlier for a beer at the pub have to hail your boat, at the pilings of the quay, where the crew are down below, relaxing with Sunday papers. With the throng around you, you cup your hands to your mouth and loudly call out your boats name…..
Pass?

Thank fuck for mobile/cell phones

 

[PUNISHER]

a mate of mine ( who i wont name, lets just call him ferrett) had an australian lightweight sharpie, that he bought from his dad. back in the 80s/90s the LWS required a unique symbol on the mainsail, for spectators to pick boats. this symbol was a large circle, cut in half horizontally and the two halves seperated. easiest way to describe would be imagine a slhouette of a hamburger bun. anyway on a trip to tasmania on the ferry after too many rums, they decided to change name of boat to " a dot, with a slot" and then after more rums "a date with a slut".. arrrival at sign on desk was brought with a very stern NO. so again a few rums.. and they decided to try their hand again with a very non-offensive "a date with the commodores daughter" .... well....... unbeknownst to them, the sign on lady was indeed the commodores wife and mother of " the commodres daughter" whose reputation was... well....... fitting and most unbecoming to the standards held by said commodres wife. it went to a full protest hearing before their entry was accepted

 

[Beatrix]

Flying Fifteen named “Uffa Fox Sake”

 

[Rasputin22]

There was a couple in one of my previous liveaboard anchorages who had a 28-30' sloop named STEADY. I always thought that it was a bit cramped to live on full time. They would row by every morning in the small dinghy that was named PROBABLY WOBBLY.

 

[TUBBY]

Quite liked the name of the Bavaria cruiser that I did a trip on.
AFRICA
(Another F***ing Regatta I Can't Afford)

 

[00seven]

There was a couple in one of my previous liveaboard anchorages who had a 28-30' sloop named STEADY. I always thought that it was a bit cramped to live on full time. They would row by every morning in the small dinghy that was named PROBABLY WOBBLY.

Buddy of mine named his boat Delirium and the tender was called Tremens.

 

[TradingUp]

Seen in harwich. Never knew it was an option.

 

[Mr Zog]

 

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Well…I’m offended that your offended…DILLIGAF

 

[Robert Ward]

Way back in the day at SDYC we were having an Olympic classes regatta, a pre-Olympic regatta, and a bunch of hotshots were dipping their toes into sailing Solings. One of them was Earl Elms, the great Snipe sailor and, at that time, a sailmaker in San Diego. He entered a Soling with the name "Chickenship". Got protested by the RC because, get this, the name on the stern (Chickenship) didn't match the name o the entry form (No Name) so he wasn't sailing the boat he had registered...

They let him off with a warning and required him to tape over the name. This sort of ticked off a lot of us, so late that night I went out with some tape and started renaming various boats by adding "ship" to their names, and renamed OUR boat (I think I was crewing for Don Bever at the time, might have been Marty Gleich) "Censorship"

Everyone that mattered (to me, that is) was amused. The RC was not. But we peeled all the tapes before we set out for the Coronado Roads and the day's racing.

I'm pushing 80 now, so my memory may have embellished this a bit, but the gist of it is true

 

[rasher]

With dozens of other boat name possibilities out there, I don't understand why it's so difficult for some people to choose one that's offensive.

 

[duncan (the other one)]

Where's Lesbian Robot when you need him?