Naming your cat

I have the graphics, waiting to repaint. She will be called

Liquid Pleasure

. '82 hotrod 18 mag.

Liquid Pleasure? Okay, I give up.

My explanation of the name got deleted on Hobiecat.com so I will not disclose here. It is based on activities I enjoy while under sail. It can only be accomplished in the ocean, preferably offshore. Most exhilarating while flying a hull, although sometimes not as satisfying.

Undecided.

If you've seen the boat, you know why its called that.

my old NACRA 5.8 = WET SPOT
NACRA 5.5 uni = TWO HOT
NACRA 5.7 = wind over water (with the word

wind

looking windblown, and the word water looking like its underwater.

In contrast, my monohull is called

One with the Wind

. Once I win a few races on it I'll chaneg it to

Won with the Wind

.

I quite like JeffS's kids names for the DS12s

Roxy Foxy girls Rule

and

watch out coming through

E B

And my boats name

4Wildthings

is because my 4 children are 4 WILD THINGS
regards

The Acat is

Fat Bottom Girl

, the hulls are fatter under the water line. Sung to the Queen song...

The CL14 is

Grace

came with that name, its approporiate, dont want to change it.

The IC was called

Smoking Crack

as the hull was cured with a wood stove, prior to me inheriting the hull. I took the power tools to it and made it a DC, so its

Smoking Crack, Chainsaw Massacre.

I didn't name her so I can't take credit for any of this, but my prindle 18-2 is named

ORKAN

. On the bow she displays the attached signal flag.

Of course I had to look up the meaning for both... ORKAN is Norwegian for Hurricane. The flag means

You are standing into danger

. I'm not norwegian, and I don't own a set of signal flags, but I still like the name and flag on the cat.

Every time I take her out in a good wind, the scorpions start playing through my head...
- It's early morning, the sun comes out
- Last night was shaking, and pretty loud
- My cat is purring, and scratches my skin
- ...
- Here I am! bah dum bum bada, Rock you like a hurricane!

Current H14 - hairbear
kids 8ft Top cat - hairbear jnr (was their choice)
Next cat(one i can take the kids with me) - HAIRBALL

My boat was named boomerang when I bought her. I don't get it and most of the letters have peeled off. I foresee a boat naming ceremony where she is renamed Smurfette. I can't help it. My boat looks like a smurf.

I'm thinking of either

The Other Woman

or

Firebolt

accompanied by a nice truefire paint job
or
If I ever could get black sails with a skull and cross bones I might paint my hulls black and call her

The Black Pearl

I all ready bought a little Flag with a skull and crossbones that says

The beating with continue until morale improves

The A-Cat is

slippery when wet

The Tornado was renamed DasBoot when wet@!##$ was complained about just prior to launch day in 1988. What can I say, I was young and dumb when I chose the name. Glad others were not as young and dumb and the name was never painted.

Re-naming a boat is BAD MOJO (bad, bad bad mojo)

If done right, you can appease Poseidon or your favorite water deitie. Do a search on boat naming/renaming ceremonies and you will find plenty of info.

http://www.bitwrangler.com/wt/renaming.shtml

http://boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/rename.htm

Don't be scared

Most of them have an alcohol component. A large alcohol component.

For racing my next F-18 is going to be

Starboard

that way if im ever protested im always on starboard.

Especially helpful if the other boat involved in the protest is named

Port Whine.

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My Favorite ...

Years ago there was a VERY experienced skipper competing in the

Down the Bay Race

... who tried to pass under the western approach causeway of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge ... he miss judged the clearence .... there was a loud

BONK

as he hit all four the roadway support beams .... that night a individual/group using red & black permenant markers named his boat ....

CENTER SPAN

.

Sail Flat, Sail Fast
HarryMurphey
TheMightyHobie18/#9458, Fleet54/Div11
P19MX/#86, CRAC

The boat itself isn't the special treat... It's actually named for a certain

thing

my wife and I do at

special times

which is done at fast speeds and can get quite wet. And so I named the boat after that! <img src=

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The graphics I designed and a local sign shop did them in vinyl and put them on the hulls.

Who was on Starboard? no, who was on Port.

I don't know was leeward boat

How about naming

first to round the mark

You could play to the committee boat's call as you cross the finish line:

Name the boat

Over

Over, Over

or

Roger... Huh?

Over, Roger... Huh?

(Airplane! The Movie call back).

Whats our vector, Victor?

Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?

Do you like movies about Gladiators?

Joey - ever seen a grown man naked?

..and they've taken him to the hospital

The Hospital, what is it?

It's a big building with a lot of beds, but that's not important right now...

and

Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up methamphetamines

Great names here for boats, I was thinking about

Beatsswimming

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bit of a late post contribution to this thread but was waiting for a good pic to show the boat under sail

when bought, here on a small lake in mountain japan, my boat was just known as

the nacra

26 years old, but little used, it looked like it would clean up well, but nothing could be done to improve the uv cracked factory stickers

with a long winter it was easy enough to decided to carefully copy, enlarge and hand paint the makers name and boat type direct to the hull

about then the white tiger's head, that the sailing anarchists came up for the flying tiger, caught my eye and because it was eye catching and could just be a few black blobs of paint on a white hull i decided to paint that on too

with a

face

for the boat it now needed a name to match and with the addition of some sunglasses on the tiger head we decided on

cool cat

. easy to read, understand and pronounce in a non-english speaking country

mucking around on the computer things seemed to look best if they were as big as possible, so it was decided to put big tigers heads on the bow, move the factory stuff to the stern and the fill up in between with the name

masking and painting strait lines is too much work so fonts were searched until

chiller

was found on ms word

still looking for good ideas from other boats we flogged the red lettering on the mast from the f18 capricorn

very happy with the result, makes the 4 year old hobie 16 on the same beach look old fashioned:o)