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Mary Malmros <malmros RemoveThis @shore.net> wrote

 > It'll come to you, or it won't. I do a lot of sailing with my dad,
 > and there are a lot of dumbass names hanging off the stern of boats,
 > clearly chosen for their cutesy effect ("Driftaway, oh my, that's
 > original..."). That's not the way to name a boat.

My friends D&A came up with one of the best sailboat names I've heard
yet. Both worked at a research University and the boat was docked
nearby. The would often slip away from work to sail, but they were
always honest about where they were.

They named their boat "The Library", as in "I'm going to the library"
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Mary Malmros <malmros.TakeThisOut@shore.net> typed:

 > It'll come to you, or it won't. I do a lot of sailing with my dad,
 > and there are a lot of dumbass names hanging off the stern of boats,
 > clearly chosen for their cutesy effect ("Driftaway, oh my, that's
 > original..."). That's not the way to name a boat.


Heh, heh. I get equally irritated with personalized license plates.
"MY-Z80", for example, or "MYTOY". I mean, the "MY" is utterly
redundandant, because, to whom does property belong but its owner, fer
Pete's sake? And as far as the "Z80" (or "280Z", or "B610", or
whatever) is concerned, if I know what a Z-80 is, then I know what I'm
looking at already, and if I don't know what a Z-80 is, I probably
don't give a flying hoot. So "MY-Z80" fatuously contains absolutely
zero information content. And that's just one category of dumass
personalized tags. On the other hand, occasionally one does see a
clever one.

But, Mary, if everyone were able to come up with witty or intelligent
names, where would you be? I mean, if everyone were as good with
words as you are, then your wit and erudition would be mundane, and
not worthy of the admiration they deserve.


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River Wild wrote:
 > Okay, this is a silly question, but has anybody here ever "named" a
 > kayak before? I think it is fun to give certain things a name, like
 > cars and boats and stuff. My kayak doesn't yet have a name as I have
 > never thought of something good enough for it, but I'm thinking of
 > it.... Hehe.
 >
 > (And I think I'm gonna have to start calling my SUV "MooCar" 'cause I
 > put cow-spotted foam [which I got at the craft store] around the roof
 > rack rails to keep my kayak from slipping when it is on them! It's a
 > pretty funny sight! My kayak is not cow-spotted, however, so I cannot
 > call it "MooYak".)

Lots of people name their boats, though I think it's more common amongst
people who build them. My daughter's boat isn't even finished being
designed yet and she has a name for it. LLKP (Little Leaky Kayak
Project) which she came up with after I told her I might call mine Leaky
Kayak Project(LKP --also my daughter's initials). She figured hers
would be smaller and it still has her initials in it. Now of course,
I'm thinking of calling mine Katie1 or something else. Can't have two
kayaks with nearly identical names of completely different designs and
"feels".

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 > Heh, heh. I get equally irritated with personalized license plates.
 > "MY-Z80", for example, or "MYTOY". I mean, the "MY" is utterly
 > redundandant, because, to whom does property belong but its owner, fer
 > Pete's sake? And as far as the "Z80" (or "280Z", or "B610", or
 > whatever) is concerned, if I know what a Z-80 is, then I know what I'm
 > looking at already, and if I don't know what a Z-80 is, I probably
 > don't give a flying hoot. So "MY-Z80" fatuously contains absolutely
 > zero information content. And that's just one category of dumass
 > personalized tags. On the other hand, occasionally one does see a
 > clever one.


So the license plate on my old Chevy Citation that read "GMJUNK" was
kinda redundant?

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Well, a friend of mine coined the name "Garage". The boat in question was formally know as the Mirage. The name was changed to reflect where that kind of boat spends most of it's time now!

JAM

River Wild wrote:
 >
 > Okay, this is a silly question, but has anybody here ever "named" a
 > kayak before? I think it is fun to give certain things a name, like
 > cars and boats and stuff. My kayak doesn't yet have a name as I have
 > never thought of something good enough for it, but I'm thinking of
 > it.... Hehe.
 >
 > (And I think I'm gonna have to start calling my SUV "MooCar" 'cause I
 > put cow-spotted foam [which I got at the craft store] around the roof
 > rack rails to keep my kayak from slipping when it is on them! It's a
 > pretty funny sight! My kayak is not cow-spotted, however, so I cannot
 > call it "MooYak".)<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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On 13 Nov 2003 00:28:13 -0800, web_jcman.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com (River Wild) wrote:

 >Okay, this is a silly question, but has anybody here ever "named" a
 >kayak before? I think it is fun to give certain things a name, like
 >cars and boats and stuff. My kayak doesn't yet have a name as I have
 >never thought of something good enough for it, but I'm thinking of
 >it.... Hehe.

I've got a 25 year old boat of dinged and pitted fiberglass with a lot
of odd touches that I love. (For example - It has four foot positions
- the builder resined in two rippled pieces of fiber glass instead of
pedals like this: _/|_/|_/|_/|_ . I love this as my legs tire I can
change position without fussing with pedals and straps. It has a
sickle shaped skeg attached that fits in a slot above and below decks
made fast with a bungi chord. And bungis inside the bulkheads that
hold the hatch covers down.) All very odd. It's sun faded. It's an
odd cross between white water and sea going design. The previous owner
had taken it whitewater paddling and to glacier bay. I picked it up
for a $100. And I often enjoy it more than my newer boats.

It's name? (Borrowed from a bicycle movement favoring the old
materials and designs) - "The Retrogrouch".<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Chris Webster <cjw.RemoveThis@ucar.edu> wrote in message news:<bp0j61$bla$1@news.ucar.edu>...
  > > Heh, heh. I get equally irritated with personalized license plates.
  > > "MY-Z80", for example, or "MYTOY". I mean, the "MY" is utterly
  > > redundandant, because, to whom does property belong but its owner, fer
  > > Pete's sake? And as far as the "Z80" (or "280Z", or "B610", or
  > > whatever) is concerned, if I know what a Z-80 is, then I know what I'm
  > > looking at already, and if I don't know what a Z-80 is, I probably
  > > don't give a flying hoot. So "MY-Z80" fatuously contains absolutely
  > > zero information content. And that's just one category of dumass
  > > personalized tags. On the other hand, occasionally one does see a
  > > clever one.
 >
 >
 > So the license plate on my old Chevy Citation that read "GMJUNK" was
 > kinda redundant?
 >
 > --Chris

Well, as a Ford owner, I'd hafta say...<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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River Wild wrote:
 >
 > Okay, this is a silly question, but has anybody here ever "named" a
 > kayak before?
[snip]

No. When I first got into kayaking, I posed this questions and was told
(and I agree with!) that since a kayak is like a part of your body,
unless you are in the habit of naming parts of your body (some people
are, but I don't do that either!), that it's completely inappropriate to
name your kayak.

Do you name your clothes? Your shoes? Etc.? Then why name your kayak?

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"River Wild" <web_jcman.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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 > Okay, this is a silly question, but has anybody here ever "named" a
 > kayak before?

Not a kayak, but my canoes have names. My first "real" canoe was a
ex-rental Mad River Eclipse with "BLEM" stenciled in red on the inside.
My buddy was so impressed with that canoe's performance compared to my old
flat-bottom fiberglass junker, he said it couldn't have been a blem.
Instead, he figured it must have once belonged to a dyslexic named "Mel"
with a last name that began with "B." So the eclipse was henceforth known
as "Mel B."

When a shiny new Bell NorthWind was added to the stable, no names came to
mind. We have ended up referring to it as "Bell B."

Good paddling,
Bob Scott




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 > On 13 Nov 2003 00:28:13 -0800, web_jcman.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com (River Wild) wrote:
 >
  > >Okay, this is a silly question, but has anybody here ever "named" a
  > >kayak before? I think it is fun to give certain things a name, like
  > >cars and boats and stuff. My kayak doesn't yet have a name as I have
  > >never thought of something good enough for it, but I'm thinking of
  > >it.... Hehe.
 >
 > I've got a 25 year old boat of dinged and pitted fiberglass with a lot
 > of odd touches that I love. (For example - It has four foot positions
 > - the builder resined in two rippled pieces of fiber glass instead of
 > pedals like this: _/|_/|_/|_/|_ . I love this as my legs tire I can
 > change position without fussing with pedals and straps. It has a
 > sickle shaped skeg attached that fits in a slot above and below decks
 > made fast with a bungi chord. And bungis inside the bulkheads that
 > hold the hatch covers down.) All very odd. It's sun faded. It's an
 > odd cross between white water and sea going design. The previous owner
 > had taken it whitewater paddling and to glacier bay. I picked it up
 > for a $100. And I often enjoy it more than my newer boats.
 >
 > It's name? (Borrowed from a bicycle movement favoring the old
 > materials and designs) - "The Retrogrouch".

Makes you a real Grouch potato, then?

My canoe is an old fleet boat from the University of Maine, back when it was
called the University of Maine at Orono, so the boat has UMO tattooed on the
bow. Since its such a high-volume riverpig, it was nothing to add an S
before that for its new name.

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"John Kuthe" <johnkuthe.RemoveThis@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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 > River Wild wrote:
  > >
  > > Okay, this is a silly question, but has anybody here ever "named" a
  > > kayak before?
 > [snip]
 >
 > No. When I first got into kayaking, I posed this questions and was told
 > (and I agree with!) that since a kayak is like a part of your body,
 > unless you are in the habit of naming parts of your body (some people
 > are, but I don't do that either!), that it's completely inappropriate to
 > name your kayak.
 >
 > Do you name your clothes? Your shoes? Etc.? Then why name your kayak?

You're a GUY and you don't name parts of your body??

Wow, me and old Sasquatch are laughing at that one.

--riverman
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On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:16:46 GMT, John Kuthe wrote:

 > Do you name your clothes? Your shoes? Etc.? Then why name your
 > kayak?

Several weeks ago, I wrote a little something in my journal. Perhaps
I'll share it here...

I went paddling today, and looked around at the familiar scenery.
Each time something came into view, my mind presented me with a word.
Driftwood; jellyfish; wave; seal; current; eagle; cat's paw, and so
on. Then there was the bird that I didn't know the name of, and I
thought about all the words in my mind, and about the missing word. I
liked the missing word best of all. Once again I remember...it's time
to forget. In this moment, words belong in a different world.

Even the loveliest of words can only dance around the truth of
something...or at best, walk us to the door and let us go. The irony
of me writing these very words does not escape me as I dance around
the truth of even this moment. Here I am, trying to write about how I
love it when the words fall away, and perception once again joins
breathing as an unspoken act of nature.

I went paddling today, and it took me, like so many times before, to
where nothing has a name.

- --
Melissa

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On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:48:19 +0100, "riverman" <nospam.DeleteThis@sorry.com>
wrote:

 >My canoe is an old fleet boat from the University of Maine, back when it was
 >called the University of Maine at Orono, so the boat has UMO tattooed on the
 >bow. Since its such a high-volume riverpig, it was nothing to add an S
 >before that for its new name.

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