Naming your cat

You have to tell! What are the special meanings?

I don't name my boats, but there is a totem for them. The sea turtle. I always take a small, blue ceramic turtle on the boat with me. My wife keeps one at home. This is so I can find my way back if I get lost. I have become seriously superstitious about this!

Sea turtles are great voyagers, but return to the beaches where they were born, at least according to folk lore. The females, of course, come ashore to lay eggs, but the males just cruise the beach searching for females!

Once the males go to sea, they never return to land. According to folk lore. Can't vouch for the scientific accuracy.

Shaheen is the arabic name for the fastest and most respected falcon in the Middle east. Its also VERY expensive because they are all pure bred for hundreds of years. I believe a fully trained shaheen could cost up to $200,000. They kill thier prey by thier sheer speed alone. And they are very beautiful falcons.

Debran is the 13th brightest star in the sky named and used by the Arabs in the 12th century. It is 350 times brighter than the sun and was used to help the lost sailors find thier way back.

I have a little torquiose turtle that I carry around with me for superstisious reasons too!! It was a gift from my surfing instructor in Hawaii. All the surfers used to call me "Honu" which means turtle in Hawaiian because I was using the HUGE begginers surfboard and no matter how hard I paddled I was still so slow.

I think my next boat (NACRA ??) will be called "Illusion of Stability"... works for me on so many levels.

LOL... tough crowd those Hawaiians, when it comes to surfing anyway...

Pete, so is your ceramic turtle a male or a female?

Hehe not really. They were SOO friendly and all the surfers were helping me out and cheering me on.

You can see my boat's name in my sig. It was named by my crew/fiancee. She always seemed to be able to glue herself to the deck when we were flying a hull (this is before she tried trapping). When I asked how, she explained...

So now, when I paint the boat this coming winter we will put a lemon on it

Mary; My turtle is male, my wifes is female, you can tell because hers has long eyelashes and uses makeup!

Zee; I've spent hours looking for the Hawaiian word for turtle. Honu. Since it is a noun, I assume this is the feminine form. Any idea what the masculine form is?

Sea turtles are only slow on land, I think you should name your boat HONU. You are already a great traveler and you returned home. The name is auspicous in that it was given based on a misperception!

ReefedOne; that wouldn't work for me, I've embraced my madness!!

I name it after my daughter.

The advice in Brasil is never to name it after a wife, girlfriend, etc. They may change eventualyy and then you start hating that name... Siblings are forever, thus safer.

Search this forum for an old, large and interesting thread on cat names.

A word of advice on naming your cat: never name ANYTHING that is 8 feet wide after your wife or girlfriend! See attachment for clarification...

In Norse mythology, Skíðblaðnir (the name can be anglicized as Skídbladnir) is the ship of Freyr. Whenever the sails were hoisted, a fair wind followed. It could travel over both land and sea. According to the saga, Skíðblaðnir was made by so many parts and with such ingenuity that it could be folded like a cloth and carried in your pocket.

I wouldn't mind having a cat that could also fly, but "Skíðblaðnir" is kind of an awkward name for a boat.

I used to have an old, tired, but still fun Hobie 16 named "Garrett" after my friend's mom.

also a Gaelic term for 'girl?'

Oooh, if that's right, that would be an extremely kewl double entendre in TWO languages! Aw man, I'm gonna go look that one up...
sea ya
tami
NACRA 18 Square "Vileine" (Cajun French for 'ugly')
F27GS "Boudicca" (after the warrior Queen of the Iceni tribe who kept the Romans out of Britain for two years.)

Or at least I can't find it. I must be confusing that with 'colleen' or some such.

ah well, nevertheless, I like it, 'shaheen' it does sound fast...

sea ya
tami

Sunny: The modern name would be "Skibladner", and there is a old steamer named so: http://www.skibladner.no/

If you are looking for cool boatnames within norse mythology, look no further than "Nagelfari" (translates to "ship made by nagels"). Nagelfari was a ship made by Loki with nails cut from the dead. When the ship was completed, Ragnarok would start and the world end. To slow down the coming of Ragnarok, all nails vere cut short on dead people so Loki could not use them to finish his ship.
In some variations, Hel, godess of death would use the ship to transport the souls of the dead to her domain.

I think Boudicca was pissed because her daughter was raped. . . She eventually got it in the neck from the Romans. Dunno tho, my history is a little rusty.

Here's a pretty comprehensive reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudicca

Went farther than the rape, and she wasn't taken. It is thought she committed suicide.

Sorry Pete, I only know the feminine form.

I wanted to name my cat Honu but my friends said I shouldnt name a boat "turtle" unless its a slow one. But I might just take your advice and name my new cat Honu

LOL thats funny!

Zee:

I named my Hobie 17 "Stress Free". I will let Ashleigh name the Mystere 4.3

Doug Snell
Hobie 17
Soon to be Mystere 4.3
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Things are looking up for the cat world and for this forum. Counting me, four different women have posted on this thread. I hope the trend continues.

Not that I ever get bored listening to you guys talk about ratios and righting moment and GPS models, but.....

Mary; Stir the pot! There were a bunch of ladies at GYC! Rattle their chains a little!

Double Trouble.
Then Absence of Reason
Then Reasonable Absence
Current one is called Tyresmoke.net / www.web.co.uk
and the next one will be "One Hungry Monster" / www.web.co.uk

I always name my boats. I think that if you think a boat might have a personality, all of mine have, you would name it.

The boat that we are sailing now is called [color]Diamond Girl. As in high maintainence woman. She is a Formula 18 and likes to be paid attention to, as all women do. When I am not sailing on weekends I usually do some maintainence or make improvements to the boat. I put the name on the boat.

Dan

Awesome! I didn't even know what wikipedia was, now it's on my favorites list.

Thanks.

I hadn't really considered naming my boat until this thread. I am just so happy to be getting one that I didn't think about it. I like Celtic names.

My last name is Annon. It is pronounced so that it rhymes with the name Shannon. Being in the United States it is hard to tell where it came from. I know my family once lived in Ireland but had immigrated there from someplace in the Netherlands (probably) but we are not sure where. It seems Annon in an unusual name in any country. If I knew where my family's homeland was I would look for a name from there.

Thanks for the info Rolf. If I remember correctly I think Loki also built the Skibladner for Freyr as repayment for a debt.

Skiblander was buildt by the sons if Ivalde (dwarfs) on Lokis request, before he gave it to Frøya. Skibladner was just one of the gifts Loki gave the Æsir, others was Thors hammer Mjollnir, Odins ring Draupnir etc. It was not exactly as repayment for a debt, but an attempt to get on the good side of the Æsir after the history where he cut the hair of Siv (Thors wife). Half of the artifacts was made during a bet between Loki and some dwarfs, with his head as the price if he lost (he won).

Would you trust this man
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Loki_Iceland.jpg

The old norse mythology is quite fun reading for children if you just omit the gory details.

My first two boats had yellow hulls so One Banana Two Banana and One Banana Two Banana II seemed appropriate.

My daughter wants to name our H16 Papita Esperanza thinking that it ment loosly translated "Little potato of sorrow" what a screw ball. It would actualy be more like "Little potato of hope"

Now that is just strange.

The following are the boats that I've sailed and named over the past few years.

Orange Prindle 18 - Soggy Cheetoh
Nacra 6.0Na - Liquid Courage
Acat - Liquid Courage Lite

Alec

My Nacra 5.2 went unnamed for years until I sunk the starboard hull for the second time. While drying out and repairing the hole I decided on "Catastrophe".
The second sinking happened while I was sailing home from the Provincials with a first place trophy on board. So I combined Cat and trophy and the name stuck.

The next boat is going to be a Blade. I am buying it with inheritance money from my great Uncle Bob. What with the Blade being shorter but scrappier I ended up with Bobcat (Which I also used as my screen name.) I went so far as to design myself a T-Shirt.