Name My New Boat

[Granny5]

motherhubbard suggested Sundara, she said it is sanskrit
for Beautiful.

[SleepyWitch]

The Stranded Mermaid (sp?)
stranded is better than drowned anyway our lit prof said mermaids are a symbol for gay love because they are neither man nor fish :???:

[Niamh]

Leading candidates so far:
(in no particular order)

Saoirse - Still need a pronunciation for this one

General Chat - I like this a lot. It'll remind me of all my friends here, and General has the alternate interpretation of high command.

Saoirse is pronounced sair sh-a. What i'll do is i'll record how to say it and post it into the lets hear your voices thread.

[AdoreroDio]

Since so many have suggested names from many languauges here are a few-
Aimez La Mer- (Love the sea)
Galleggia!- (It floats!) pronunciation hint- the ll is pronounced like a y
Soñador- (dreamer)
Mezzanotte - (midnight)
Pérola Perdida- (lost pearl)
Iolar na Mara -(Eagle of the sea)
Carpe Diem

English ones-
Albatross
Boy N Sea
Constant Sea
Decent Seas
Miss Fit
Catch My Drift
Anchor Management
Aye Candy
Devocean
This Side Up
Sol Seacher


I don't know if you like any of these- if you don't I can come up with more.

[the silent x]

"it's fun again", if you live anywhere in michigan though, i did not give you the name, you do not know any people living their, it was just a coicidence, yadda, yadda, yadda,

or "fun on the rocks" and the motto of the boat can be "its better to be on a boat with a drink on the rocks, than to be in the drink with the boat on the rocks."

[Pensive]

Eureka.

(I love the sound of this word!)

[papayahed]

"it's fun again", if you live anywhere in michigan though, i did not give you the name, you do not know any people living their, it was just a coicidence, yadda, yadda, yadda,

or "fun on the rocks" and the motto of the boat can be "its better to be on a boat with a drink on the rocks, than to be in the drink with the boat on the rocks."

I have alerted the Michiganders, there will soon be a knock at your door.

[papayahed]

I have the perfect name:

"Amazon Princess"

or better yet:

"Papaya's Amazon Princess"

[BibliophileTRJ]

I have the perfect name:

"Amazon Princess"

or better yet:

"Papaya's Amazon Princess"

Good try Papaya; but as my mother has passed away I am officially a QUEEN now. (in almost every sense of the word)

[Granny5]

Good try Papaya; but as my mother has passed away I am officially a QUEEN now. (in almost every sense of the word)

Well then, Amazon Queen.
Really, it should be something that would fit such an expensive home.

[Niamh]

Tim this is how you pronounce Saoirse
Message for Tim aka BiblioTRJ
Its pronounced very softly, very delicate word (and freedom can be delicate). Whisper it and see how it seems to float from your mouth and fade.

[TheFifthElement]

Finisterre - I love this one! Very appropriate since I intend to see every bit of the globe on this boat. It's also reminiscent of the warning that was placed on the open ocean on early maps from the time before most of the world was charted - "Here there be Monsters"

You can't go for this name, there's already a container ship with this name Cap Finisterre which I know about because in my work I'm involved in the Maritime industry and this vessel has been subject to a major maritime incident.

http://www.ibiblio.org/maritime/medi...php?album=2220

I'm sure you don't want to associate your lovely boat with this monster.

Advice from the Marine world is :

1. Don't name your boat with any name beginning with the letter 'D' - this is considered most unlucky (have you read Dracula? The vessel he came over on was called the 'Demeter')
2. Avoid the South China Sea - there be pirates there!

Good luck with naming and the voyage. You could always call the boat 'Lit-net'

[papayahed]

OK, one last try:

"Queen Mary"


It has a ring doesn't it???

[Granny5]

I can name that ship in three words...............

Tim's Blow Hole

[papayahed]

Granny got me to thinking:

"Shiver me timbers"