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07-27-2015, 07:54 PM
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Guru
City: Full Time Cruising East Coast
Vessel Name: Meridian
Vessel Model: Krogen-42
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 1,014
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Our next boat will be MERIDIAN, the same as our last six.
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Meridian
KK-42097
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07-27-2015, 08:05 PM
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Guru
City: Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Vessel Name: Xanadu
Vessel Model: Mainship 37 Motor Yacht
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 2,472
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On our part of the upper Missouri we're lucky if the VHF radio crackles to life once or twice a month, but in May we spent a couple weeks on Long Island Sound. I've always thought goofy or double entendre boat names were just kind of juvenile or silly but pretty much roll-my-eyes harmless. The trip in May gave me a whole new perspective. You just don't sound like a serious or competent boater on the radio if your boat has a silly or sexual name.
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07-27-2015, 08:14 PM
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#23
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Guru
City: Cary, NC
Vessel Name: Skinny Dippin'
Vessel Model: Navigator 4200 Classic
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 5,841
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kthoennes
You just don't sound like a serious or competent boater on the radio if your boat has a silly or sexual name.
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Says the guy whose boat is named after an Olivia Newton-John movie!
No hard feelings
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07-27-2015, 10:00 PM
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#24
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Guru
City: Stuart FL
Vessel Name: Lucky Lucky
Vessel Model: Pacific Mariner 65
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 2,760
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A boat's name should be easily understood on a VHF radio in an emergency.
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Howard
Lucky Lucky
Stuart, FL
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07-27-2015, 10:17 PM
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Guru
City: Sydney
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 1,646
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Just depends on how superstitious you are personally I would never use the same name on a new boat and when I changed the boats name I had professional ceremony and took all precautions. I would also never own another green boat or take banana's on board
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07-27-2015, 10:17 PM
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Guru
City: Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Vessel Name: Xanadu
Vessel Model: Mainship 37 Motor Yacht
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 2,472
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom.B
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HA! No no no no, for pete's sake, it's the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem, you know, "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan, a stately pleasure-dome decree, where Alph the sacred river ran...Five miles meandering with a mazy motion,through wood and dale the sacred river ran... Missouri River, get it, river...and I grew up on the Connecticut River, then majored in English literature, hence the poem (although the previous owner chose it). Oh never mind, fine, fine, I'll go fire up my ELO albums and put on my roller skates and my wife can put on her ankle warmers and we'll just dance around the salon to the Xanadu theme. My wife will need shoulder pads and bigger hair though. And I'll have to get bigger glasses and thin ties. But I'm not going back to the open cockpit Blue Jay sailboat I had in the 80's, I have to draw the line somewhere. Although I could install salon LED's that cycle through colors for the disco effect...hmmm.
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07-27-2015, 10:27 PM
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#27
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Guru
City: Fort Lauderdale. Florida, USA
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 21,449
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Quote:
Originally Posted by meridian
Our next boat will be MERIDIAN, the same as our last six.
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Well, you should definitely be able to remember it then.
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07-27-2015, 10:33 PM
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Guru
City: Fort Lauderdale. Florida, USA
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 21,449
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Wifey B:
From Xanadu: Magic
You have to believe we are magic
Nothin' can stand in our way
You have to believe we are magic
Don't let your aim ever stray
And if all your hopes survive
Your destiny will arrive
I'll bring all your dreams alive
For you
Xanadu
A place where nobody dared to go
The love that we came to know
They call it Xanadu
And now, open your eyes and see
What we have made is real
We are in Xanadu
A million lights are dancing
And there you are, a shooting star
An everlasting world and you're here with me
Eternally
Xanadu - Xanadu (now we are here)
In Xanadu
Xanadu - Xanadu (now we are here)
In Xanadu
Xanadu your neon lights will shine
For you Xanadu
The love, the echoes of long ago
You needed the world to know, they are in Xanadu
The dream that came through a million years
That lived on through all the tears
It came to Xanadu
A million lights are dancing and there you are
A shooting star, an everlasting world and you're
Here with me eternally
Xanadu - Xanadu (now we are here)
In Xanadu
Now that I'm here, now that you're near in Xanadu
Ok, not from Xanadu but still ONJ.
Let's get physical, physical
I wanna get physical
Let's get into physical
Let me hear your body talk, your body talk
Let me hear your body talk
Now you have me singing. If it wasn't so late the keyboard and background tracks would come out and hubby and I would have a song fest.
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07-27-2015, 10:35 PM
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#29
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Guru
City: Fort Lauderdale. Florida, USA
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 21,449
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I think carefully of boat names, all the misinterpretations, all the other connotations. A bit like parents who come up with what they think are cute kids names without thinking how much harassment the kid will endure over the years.
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07-27-2015, 11:04 PM
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#30
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Guru
City: Sarasota,FL/Thomasville,GA
Vessel Name: Steppin Stone IV
Vessel Model: Marine Trader Kelly Trawler 46
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 1,815
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BandB
Wifey B:
From Xanadu: Magic
You have to believe we are magic
Nothin' can stand in our way
You have to believe we are magic
Don't let your aim ever stray
And if all your hopes survive
Your destiny will arrive
I'll bring all your dreams alive
For you
Xanadu
A place where nobody dared to go
The love that we came to know
They call it Xanadu
And now, open your eyes and see
What we have made is real
We are in Xanadu
A million lights are dancing
And there you are, a shooting star
An everlasting world and you're here with me
Eternally
Xanadu - Xanadu (now we are here)
In Xanadu
Xanadu - Xanadu (now we are here)
In Xanadu
Xanadu your neon lights will shine
For you Xanadu
The love, the echoes of long ago
You needed the world to know, they are in Xanadu
The dream that came through a million years
That lived on through all the tears
It came to Xanadu
A million lights are dancing and there you are
A shooting star, an everlasting world and you're
Here with me eternally
Xanadu - Xanadu (now we are here)
In Xanadu
Now that I'm here, now that you're near in Xanadu
Ok, not from Xanadu but still ONJ.
Let's get physical, physical
I wanna get physical
Let's get into physical
Let me hear your body talk, your body talk
Let me hear your body talk
Now you have me singing. If it wasn't so late the keyboard and background tracks would come out and hubby and I would have a song fest.
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STOP
I just took the granddaughters to a greece revival play
was tough on Popi
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07-28-2015, 12:23 AM
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#31
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Guru
City: Fort Lauderdale. Florida, USA
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 21,449
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Quote:
Originally Posted by siestakey
STOP
I just took the granddaughters to a greece revival play
was tough on Popi
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Wifey B: Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee.
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07-28-2015, 01:00 AM
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#32
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Guru
City: Sidney
Join Date: Feb 2015
Posts: 2,258
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BandB
Main thing I'd say is to remember how many times you're going to have to say the name you choose over public airwaves...
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Or phonetically.
I see boats sometimes, I hope they are never in distress because by the time they stumble through it they'd be under.
My next one will be 3 letters and I can't find the name anywhere...
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07-28-2015, 01:09 AM
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#33
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Guru
City: Pender Harbour, BC
Vessel Name: Gwaii Haanas
Vessel Model: Custom Aluminum 52
Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 3,791
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Some moron named his boat "Payday." "Payday payday payday this is Sampan, Sampan, Sampan." Confusing or what?
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07-28-2015, 03:00 AM
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Veteran Member
City: Laidley
Join Date: Mar 2015
Posts: 91
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A sense of humor is a wonderful thing and everyone should theirs as often as inappropiate.
Wasn`t O N J English or Yank or something. lol
David.
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07-28-2015, 07:22 AM
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#35
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Guru
City: Ft Pierce
Vessel Name: Sold
Vessel Model: Was an Albin/PSN 40
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 28,143
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Aw heck...if a name af a vessel is not repeatable for any reason.....the USCG just calls the " boat on fire/sinking/with medical emergency, etc"
Not preferred but easy peezy....
Some people treat the hobby of boating with reverence, most don't as it is just a pastime in their busy schedules....so picking a name is not necessarily given too much thought.
Why fight it?
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07-28-2015, 08:15 AM
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#36
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Guru
City: Stuart FL
Vessel Name: Lucky Lucky
Vessel Model: Pacific Mariner 65
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 2,760
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Wifey B,
I guess we picked a great boat name!
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Howard
Lucky Lucky
Stuart, FL
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07-28-2015, 08:49 AM
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#37
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Guru
City: Cary, NC
Vessel Name: Skinny Dippin'
Vessel Model: Navigator 4200 Classic
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 5,841
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kthoennes
No no no no, for pete's sake, it's the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem
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Nope... SORRY... But I will give you the benefit of the doubt and say it's an epic Rush song of the 'A Farewell To Kings' album!
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07-28-2015, 09:42 AM
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#38
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Guru
City: Fort Lauderdale. Florida, USA
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 21,449
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I like Xanadu as a name as it represents an idyllic state. To me it was always the update on Camelot.
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07-28-2015, 10:30 AM
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#39
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Guru
City: Fort Lauderdale. Florida, USA
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 21,449
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Wifey B: What could be better for describing a boat than Camelot....
In short, there's simply not
A more congenial spot
For happily-ever-aftering than here
In Camelot.
The thoughts of a Camelot or a Xanadu so freeking cool. I think of our lives together like that. It's not a physical place but it's a state of mind you create.
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07-28-2015, 10:45 AM
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#40
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Guru
City: Fort Myers, FL... Summers in the Great Lakes
Vessel Name: Slow Hand
Vessel Model: Cherubini Independence 45
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 12,834
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BandB
Wifey B: What could be better for describing a boat than Camelot....
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Sounds more like a used humpback dealer in the Middle East.
Ted
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I'm tired of fast moves, I've got a slow groove, on my mind.....
I want to spend some time, Not come and go in a heated rush.....
"Slow Hand" by The Pointer Sisters
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