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Anyone Named their boat(s)

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I found this on another site
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and wondered if anyone named their boats. I have not.
 
Not before or after the OT Tripper I bought in the early 1980’s and owned for over 23 years. I enjoy my several canoes now but I see them pretty much as tools to get where I want to go by the means I prefer get there.
 
I call my lapstrake canoe Egret, because it is a slender marsh bird. I'm thinking Warbler for the canoe in my avatar. I haven't painted a name on either.
 
A woodstrip voyageur canoe I successfully raced for several years in the Adirondack 90 mile race was dubbed the "Raquette River Evaporator". A friend had made a very narrow woodstrip voyageur he called "Slenda Glenda". Another, originally built to take north to the Yukon, was "Compass rose".
 
When we had the ocean boat it was the Huda Thunkit, which our Daughter now owns and Old Town had all ready named one of the canoes for us, Discovery 133, i’ll just call it the Dip ship and that leaves the new composite boat nameless.
One thing a learned early on; if you get too rambunctious and just grab the first cute name you see, you’ll find one you like better, later.
 
Naming helps keep it fun for the kids. It also helps normal people identify the boats. Nobody can remember or say Lamoille anyway, but the kids know "Moose canoe"

Other canoes are Beaver, Otter, and Rat.
 
In high school a friend’s family sailboat was the “Oops” because on their first launch they got the mast caught in some overhead utility or comms lines.
 
My cedar stripper is officially "A Slow Boat to Nowhere" but also called "The Voluptuous Stripper" because of its curvaceous lines.

My rebuilt, soloized MR Explorer is "YAER" (Yet Another Explorer Rebuild) but also called "The Clydesdale" as it is a large solo.

My yellow Esquif Vertige is "Day-O" because it is a banana boat.
 
I bought a 17' Coleman Ram for my son that I named "Big and Ugly" It's a great boat when the Allagash is low.
 
As you could read here in this threat before...

if you want to paddle here in Germany on waterways and lakes, it is mandatory to give the boat a name.

because of the weight and the wide hips - I gave my OldTown the name "Wilma"
(big fett crying mama seemed a bit too long to me)


;)
 
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I have a drift boat named Dire Wolf.
A 19 foot aluminum fishing boat with a 115 hp Yamaha named Dark Star.
A travel trailer named Bertha.
I called my Old Town Guide 18 the No Name for years. Then we went on a week long trip prompted by my friend Dave. He did not make the trip. I called him the last night. From then on, the canoe has been called Dave's Not Here.
For some reason it is hard to name canoes. The other 7 or 8 have never been given names.
 
I guess I’ve named my modified paddle “Clementine”. She’s a Clement Aviron that I took to the bench sander and reshaped substantially. But the boats don’t have names yet. I’m bad at naming things. I once had a puppy for a couple months before I finally named her “Holiday”. She was the best.
 
All the motor boats in the 10,000 Islands and the warves around south Florida have names - usually punny ones. But I forget them immediately after the laugh or groan. Never named a canoe. Probably should. We now have so many we have to ask questions back and forth about six times before we agree on which boat we are talking about.
 
Our c.1953 13' Grumman is called the "Clyde Griffiths". (look him up-)!
Haven't named our other canoes/kayaks, though I call an untrustworthy $5 kayak "Little Dumpy".
 
In my mind, I call the canoe built for me, by Joe Seliga, “Salvelinus namaycush.” Joe really liked them. I can’t remember what he like better catching or eating them. They were the first fish caught, on on the first launch of the canoe.
Never painted on the bow, canoe was far too beautiful to paint anything on her.
Joe told me where his favorite place to harvest cranberries was. His wife, Nora gave me her recipe for wild blueberry muffins.
 
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We call the 15-passenger E-350 van at work “Big Booty Judy” and the diesel RAM 2500 “Big Rhonda”
 
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