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Colin Bishop

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Boat Names
« on: September 07, 2016, 11:03:47 pm »
Seen in Poros, Greece this week...

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Re: Boat Names
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2016, 04:18:45 pm »
Back in the '80's when people talked to each other on VHF-FM radios while afloat, there were two boats on Galveston Bay with the names "Reflection" and "Illusion."  They would drive me crazy with their all-day calls of "Reflection calling Illusion, Illusion calling Reflection."


Sorry, rant OVER.  And OUT.   <*<
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Re: Boat Names
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2016, 08:52:25 pm »
Many years ago when I was sailing off the South Coast, there was a yacht with a Latin name, possibly 'CARPE DIEM' or similar, owned by one of those irritating yachtsmen who would call the Coastguard for a 'radio check' every time he switched on. When the CG got fed up with him, each time he called, they pretended not to decipher his boats name and asked him to spell it phonetically several times. He soon 'got the message' - excuse pun!   :-))
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Re: Boat Names
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2016, 10:26:51 pm »
Could not resist looking it up so, according to Wikipedia :-

Carpe diem is a Latin phrase, usually translated "Seize the day".

Carpe diem may also refer to:
Carpe Diem (drink), a range of soft beverages distributed in Europe by Red Bull
The Carpe Diem Trust, a UK-based charitable trust

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Re: Boat Names
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2016, 10:33:40 pm »
Majorca marina a few years ago.

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Re: Boat Names
« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2016, 10:36:36 pm »
Quote from: Capt Podge on September 08, 2016, 10:26:51 pm
Could not resist looking it up so, according to Wikipedia :-

Carpe diem is a Latin phrase, usually translated "Seize the day".

But made 'famous' by Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society in 1989 - probably accounts for a proliferation of boats so named in the '90s.

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Re: Boat Names
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2016, 10:48:11 pm »
When I had my small yacht we once listened in to a confused conversation between Solent Coastguard and a motor cruiser off the Isle of Wight which had sprung a leak. The boat's name was 'Don't Panic'.

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Re: Boat Names
« Reply #7 on: September 09, 2016, 12:39:01 am »
I came across one years ago with the name!!


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Re: Boat Names
« Reply #8 on: September 09, 2016, 08:51:33 am »
..and of course there was the Titan Uranus for those interested in the planets.  Seems the owners had to change the name after a couple of years :embarrassed:
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Re: Boat Names
« Reply #9 on: September 09, 2016, 08:58:54 am »
....and "Hoof Hearted"
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« Reply #10 on: September 09, 2016, 09:19:19 am »
..and the "Shy Tot" with a picture of a baby in nappies.
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Re: Boat Names
« Reply #11 on: September 09, 2016, 09:43:01 am »
I found one more.


UP-U-2, which I thought would not passed our Marine Board, but, they did!!!!
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Re: Boat Names
« Reply #12 on: September 09, 2016, 04:26:13 pm »
My friend found a boat sunk just off the shore of Loch Morar where he lived. He managed to retrieve it and found it was named 'FOCHINELL'. He renamed it but kept the nameboard in his workshop where I saw it and laughed and laughed and laughed!  {-) Presumably the last comment of the owner as it went down!
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Re: Boat Names
« Reply #13 on: September 09, 2016, 08:08:16 pm »
this all reminds me of this lovely youtube video that went around the interwebs a few years back...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR0lWICH3rY
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Re: Boat Names
« Reply #14 on: September 09, 2016, 09:57:45 pm »
Or the more recent Boaty MacBoatface or whatever it was - instantly forgettable!  %)

Incidentally, I once owned a small West Wight Potter yacht. I named it 'PANSY' after the girl in the comic. On entering Portsmouth Naval Dockyard for the International Festival of the Sea in my 14 foot 'cockleshell', a few catcalls were heard from the dockside! I was more than happy to inform the matelots that HMS PANSY was an Arabis Class vessel. The Arabis class was the third class of minesweeping sloops to be built under the Emergency War Programme for the Royal Navy in World War I as part of the larger "Flower Class", which were also referred to as the "Cabbage Class", or "Herbaceous Boarders" !!  {-)  Imagine parading the streets of Pompey with 'PANSY on your cap -tally!
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Re: Boat Names
« Reply #15 on: September 09, 2016, 10:10:59 pm »
Quote from: tsenecal on September 09, 2016, 08:08:16 pm
this all reminds me of this lovely youtube video that went around the interwebs a few years back...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR0lWICH3rY

 {-) {-) {-) love it !

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