I'm not sure if this is the correct place and it's probably been done before, but I'm curious about the meaning behind the boat names on this forum. Some are self explanatory but others are puzzling or may not be what they seem. I'm dense and probably will slap my forehead, but I can't figure out what Bob's boat name Koinoina (sp?) means. My boat doesn't have a name yet, so I'm also looking for ideas.
Well, Koinonia is a Greek word with several meanings. One translation is "collection" and that fits because Bob23 is the COLLECTOR of initiation fees and dues for this site. However, I realized this morning that he named his yacht for the "koin" found in her bilge!
There are many traditions and omens regarding the naming and renaming of water craft. I doubt there is any logical pattern for the names found among ComPac owners. The names surely are significant to the owner and I suppose they all translate to "LOVE".
Arion (/?æri.?n/; Greek: ?????) was a kitharode in ancient Greece, a Dionysiac poet credited with inventing the dithyramb: "As a literary composition for chorus dithyramb was the creation of Arion of Corinth". Although notable for his musical inventions, Arion is chiefly remembered for the fantastic myth of his kidnapping by pirates and miraculous rescue by dolphins, a folktale motif.
The boat was named by the previous owners, two delightful women who had moved on to a larger boat. In fact their selection of that name may go even deeper into the Greek mythology story, however, I won't go there suffice to say I thoroughly enjoyed my time with them during the buying process. I had intended to risk the wrath of the gods and rename, however, at the time of purchase my grandson was enthralled with the Jimmy Buffet story "Jolly Mon" which was a tale that used "Orion" the constellation and merged it with the Greek folklore story of "Arion". So, because of that and because I hated to remove perfectly good custom name lettering, I let it be.
My last two boats were named "Cygnus" and "Faux Pas". My BIL and I also had a rather bedraggled craft that was affectionately referred to as "Sea Slut", however we never got around to actually putting that name on the boat.
Excellent stories. Just what I was hoping to see on this thread.
While we are on the Greek inspiration :
Helios - Titan and greek god of the sun who rode his chariot (the sun) across the oceans around the world each day. Hoping it will bring us luck of warmth and sunny days! Someday I hope to have a nice spinnaker with a giant gold sun with his crown flying high.
We inherited our boats name and decided she might get confused if we remained her after adoption. "No Mas" her name has not proved to have worked for any of the previous owners as all have gotten mas boats! We'll just have to see. :)
She wears her name on her stern.
I name my boats after my grandchildren...WyattC is my only male grandchild. I am still waiting to name a boat the MiraShanti.
Gerry
All have been named by me after birds:
Grebe was a West Wight Scow on the Thames in England,
Kittiwake was a Newport 28 on the Chesapeake,
Kittiwake II was a Precision 28 on the Chesapeake and the current one is
Dabchick a Picnic Cat, which seemed appropriate for a small chubby boat on Lakes Nockamixon (PA), Geist (IN) and Jordan (NC).
Jon
Andiamo! is Italian for let's Go! For me, as I have very little patience waiting on the Admiral, who tends to Lollygag about, I'm always saying "S'go, s'go!"
So my boat is bi-lingual as S'go is hard to say understandably over a marine radio
"Heidi Liz" is named after my daughter. It is my third ComPac with the same name. Much easier this way to remember my boat's name.
BobK
Quote from: No Mas on April 01, 2016, 11:08:39 PM
She wears her name on her stern.
Right or wrong, this totally made me think of lower back tattoos. My girl hasn't been inked, so I change her name at will.
The previous owner called her Topo Gigio after the cartoon mouse, although that didn't resonate with me, likely because it was before my time (and her time too). At first I was leaning towards Renegade, but that's more my personality than hers. My current leaning is Cassiopeia, with her unrivaled beauty and since it's easy to identify the constellation year round.
I have had several boats. My last three bigger boats were named Bad Obsession, Spirit of Liberty, and Saga. Saga is my current boat.
I felt like Saga was a great name for my boat. It is the current boat in the Saga of my sailing adventures. Also, I have some Norse ancestry so that is fitting as well.
I have only named 3 of my 7 boats. A Precision 18 was named "Clewless". I thought this was a neat name until I had engine problems on a windless evening and needed a tow. I could picture someone at the other end of the VHF hearing Clewless but thinking Clueless. At that moment I dropped the name. Next boat, a Precision 21 was named "Off the Wind". One of my kids had given me a beautiful picture of a sailboat about my size with its stern to the wind and an asymmetrical up. The pic was titled Off the Wind. When I bought my Com Pac Eclipse, it had not been named so I moved Off the Wind over. This made my wife extremely happy since she had embroidered several shirts with the name on, and there would be no need to change the name. Sail on. Al
my first boat, a bristol caravel 22', was named parley because the mrs and i had to come to an agreement on purchasing her.
my second boat (i still have) is a hullmaster 15'. her name is long summer daze which i borrowed from my favorite band, the moody blues because i spend a lot of long, hot, hazy days sailing small waters with her.
my third boat, a starwind 19, was named sur la mer. another moody blues title that is french for "on the sea", since this boat was purchased to take me on my first salterwater voyage.
my forth boat, a starwind 22, i didn't have long enough to name.
our current boat, a compac 19/II, is named miss adventure because at 31 years young, she's still a lass and excels at getting herself and crew into adventures, or sometimes, misadventures.
c.c.
My San Francisco Pelican was named Nausikaa, after the pretty girl who rescues Odysseus when he's shipwrecked. One day, while towing her to the boat ramp in Tarpon Springs, I noticed a car followed me all the way there. There was a little old lady inside who only spoke Greek, and she had made her daughter (who was driving, and spoke good English)) follow me so she could tell me personally she knew what the boat's name meant, and to thank me for having chosen it.
My MacGregor 22 was named Magus after the totally breathtaking and completely baffling novel by John Fowles. It means "magician". Since then, I've become more practical, and have come to realize that a boat name should be chosen that is easy to understand, especially over a radio.
Here are some other names I've always wanted to paint on a boat, but like most sailors, I ran out of boats long before I ran out of names. Feel free to take one, if it strikes your fancy.
Fortran
Real Time
Cheap Thrills
Resonance
Tampa Girl
Thursday's Child
Swing Time
Spirit (after my favorite rock band!)
Kailani......Hawaiian for "She of the sea & sky."
Great names and stories!
Been working on my boat's name. My wife won't let me put her or our daughter's name on the boat. However, she is a high school math teacher and retirement is on the horizon,so the current favorite is:
AfterMath
What do you think?
I also proposed:
Breaking Wind
But the kids vetoed that one...
Quote from: NCboater on April 08, 2016, 07:06:58 PM
Great names and stories!
Been working on my boat's name. My wife won't let me put her or our daughter's name on the boat. However, she is a high school math teacher and retirement is on the horizon,so the current favorite is:
AfterMath
What do you think?
I also proposed:
Breaking Wind
But the kids vetoed that one...
Oddly enough, "
Breakin' Wind" (with that essential inspirational rising apostrophe) is the provisional all-but-inked-on name of my "foundling" Com-Pac 16's big sister, a Macgregor 26X (http://bukmop.com/ComPac16/IMG_20151205_140001.jpg). It's what the previous owner was yearning to call her. Sadly, he never managed to square it all away and get her into the drink before his knee went all gammy, and he ended up selling it to me for so little, that while I may not exactly see him as co-owner as such, he's certainly an "interested party." Besides which, he's a swell guy. I'm happy to make him happy, and hell I'll admit it: I
like the name "
Breakin' Wind" too. it speaks unmistakably to the Mac's "hybrid" motor-sailer nature and of her essential duality and even transcendence beyond norms...So, I'm thinking a multi-colored balloon font, Yeah? Naturally, I then had to find suitably complementary handle for her little sister, "The Foundling," seen here "as found (http://bukmop.com/ComPac16/IMG_20160116_145018.jpg)" and, after a good scrubbing, here "as of this week. (http://bukmop.com/ComPac16/IMG_20160410_190858.jpg)" So, I settled on "
Pooknoo", which is a quaint and folksy Russian word for, well, "cute small fart." Wife's a Muscovite, you understand. Gotta play to the crowd that's there. I mean, there's a reason a triple-spar-varnished blonde matrioshka nested doll (http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/russian-matrioshka-dolls-jacek-malipan.jpg) is mounted as the Mac's figurehead. Though, given the boat's moniker, and this whole pattern that now seems to be developing, I now wonder if this particular design (http://gamuart.deviantart.com/art/Matrioshka-299994466) might not have been more suitable...
On the other hand, my Amphicar (http://www.amphicar.net/library/amphicar.jpg) has the plates "
OL' BUOY"...so that, at least, doesn't stink, if you'll forgive the pun, or whatever English teachers might call that left-handed reference.
I always find it hard to come up with a really good boat name. Three boats ago, we were trying to come up with a name, and just couldn't figure one out. My wife finally came up with the idea of a name coming out of my favorite places to sail. Years ago, I sailed with my dad in the San Juan Islands north of Seattle. My favorite island was Sucia....perfect name! Short, nice sounding!! Well, I went to the internet to see if there was any meaning behind the name. The islands were explored by the Spanish. The explorer that named the island thought the shoreline looked like trash. Sucia means trash or garbage in Spanish. So, that name did not work out. We called the boat LoneStar since both of my daughters were born in Texas.
I usually really dislike the silly play on words names. Especially the nautical ones. There was one boat in our marina that had a interesting name: JAFTICA People were always walking past the boat, pointing and laughing. I asked someone:
Just Another F**king Thing I Can't Afford.
My current boat, a Horizon Day Cat is named Waters End. We have a vacation house on the water up in Door County, Wisconsin. To get to our house you go down this beautiful street...Waters End Road. I like the name, and I have never seen another boat with the name.
Don't call your boat Breaking Wind...I see that name all the time. Bad name...overused. A guy at work who is an obstetrician/gynecologist has a similar name for his boat...Broken Water. I like this name better!
Rob
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One other boat name story I forgot to include. Years ago my neighbor at the dock had a very nice older S2. One day I was going out sailing and he was putting on the name: Sea Smoke. Cool name..another name for fog. I bought him a bottle of a very nice Pinot Noir, Sea Smoke. At the end of the season, I took a friend out sailing. It was a beautiful fall day with 10 knots of wind out of the east (onto the shore). Sea Smoke was not at the dock and was also out sailing but I did not see the boat out there. I commented to my friend that there were a number of boats sailing very close to shore...somewhat dangerous since there are some submerged boulders in the area that many sailboats have hit over the years. When we got back to the dock late in the afternoon, Sea Smoke was not back at the dock, and driving home along the lake front there was a sailboat up against the rocks along the shore. The boat was leaning with the mast pointing away from the shore, so I couldn't make out what type of sailboat it was. The next morning I stopped at the marina and Sea Smoke was not at her slip. A trip to the marina office confirmed that it was Sea Smoke. Apparently when Sea Smoke hit the submerged boulders, she got driven ashore by the onshore breeze. The owner called the Coast Guard, and they were quite confused, and thought the owner was saying "see smoke" and was reporting a fire. I guess you should see what your boat name would sound like if you were calling the Coast Guard!!
Rob
Quote from: tmw on April 02, 2016, 10:53:39 AM
My girl hasn't been inked, so I change her name at will.
A neighbor was admiring my com-pac (cleaning her up getting ready for the season) and noticed that she had been inked, and was named Escape in Clark Lake. Clark Lake makes sense with the former Wisconsin registration, but I'm in a little bit of shock that I hadn't noticed the faint residual lettering on her stern....
Quote from: tmw on April 17, 2016, 10:24:29 PM
A neighbor was admiring my com-pac (cleaning her up getting ready for the season) and noticed that she had been inked, and was named Escape in Clark Lake. Clark Lake makes sense with the former Wisconsin registration, but I'm in a little bit of shock that I hadn't noticed the faint residual lettering on her stern....
I was just at Clark Lake 2 weeks ago...just about 25 minutes south of our place in Sister Bay.
Rob
After a succession of boats named Look-Out, Indulgence and Look-Out Too, we named our new-to-us 23/2, Mudlark. The back story is that when we went to move the boat from the previous owner's front lawn in Maine, my buddy's pickup truck got stuck in the mud as we were lining up the coupler with receiver. Seems we forgot about mud season in Maine. Luckily, we found an amiable tow truck driver who pulled the pickup by cable to safer ground, lay down two sheets of wood sheathing and pulled the boat out of the mud as well. I wish the story ended here, but we then had to deal with a rusted coupler that we jury-rigged to stay closed so we could pull the boat 30 miles to my friend's house. Everything held together though and with new coupler and new four new tires, Mudlark is now sitting in our backyard, undergoing a thorough cleaning.
We are naming our CP25 "Penultimate." We tend to refer to her as Penny though. Penultimate is the next to the last number in a series. Our CP25 was the second to last one produced. My wife and I are both kind of math nerds so it is a term we have used in actual conversation with coworkers. It also represents the position we strive to attain in a race some day, as so far we've only managed DFL. ;) Still have fun though.
Our last boat (Sunday Cat) was named Water Witch. The previous owner named her. He was a firefighter and the name of the water pumps on the firefighting boats was water witch. He had a relative that used a water witch to find locations to dig a well, so it also had multiple meanings.
Was reading an article in SCA. Mentioned the term/condition "In the Moment". Struck me as a good name for a sailboat.
Named my SunCat NOMAD. Just liked the way it sounded on the radio when calling bridge tenders or lock tenders.
I also like the idea of wandering about in boats, but Wanderer is way overused. So Nomad it was.
Ron