Boat Names

[American Patriot]

Ok guys. Now's your chance to be original.

I'm looking for boat names.


Here's the parameters.

1) Must be one word.

2) Must be easy to understand over the radio

3) must not be "difficult" to spell, either with english letters or phonetics

4) can't be a "stupid name" (eg. "Breakin wind","Blow Me", "Poopy Express", "Master Baiter", "My Assiss Dragon", "Wet Dream","Norwegian Woody" - LOL)

5) Must "say something" about the owners

6) Must be uncommon. (eg. Island Time, Seas the Day, It's About Time, Liberty, Serendipity, Second Wind, Dolce Vita, Aquaholic, The Good Life, Nauti Buoy - Note these are the TOP ten names in 2012.) - and Liberty was one of my picks

Any help is appreciated.

We will be putting all the names into a spread sheet along with some other information like "What the name means", What language it is, and perhaps a few other things.

The wife and I will be culling through those when the time comes to pick a name for our boat.

We might not chose one of them, or we might and it might depend on the boat itself. For instance if the boat is a particularly pretty boat and has a nice name, and is well known in the islands or something like that we might keep the old name.

We want the name to be something to be remembered and something that will catch the ears as much as the type of vessel we really want will "catch the eye".

I don't think most of you know what I mean by that right now. But perhaps you do.

thanks


Oh..... the following is the list of things I have RIGHT NOW and remember this was something I threw together in an hour or so of thinking.

Name	Explanation/meaning	Language
Altair	star name
Anomaly	word
Antares	star name
Arcturus	star name
Athena	god
Barsoom	fictional planet
Betelgeuse	star name
Capella	star name
Chronology	time
Clockwork	time
Continuum	time
Damhban	White Stag	Gaelic
Discovery	word
Epoch	time
Excursion	time
Frontier	word
Galileo	famous scientist
Gandalf	famous wizard
Hera	god
Hermes	god
Mango	fruit
Marielee	daughter's middle names
Maryjean	moms' names
Moonrunner	idea
Nexus	series of connections linking two or more things.
Onyx	stone
Orion	constellation
Pegusus	constellation
Ptolemy	famous scientist
Rivendell	elf city
Starpath	word
Starrunner	word
Startrekker	word
Startripper	word
Ticktock	time
Time	time
Venus	planet
Walkabout	idea
Wormwood	location/plant

[Ryan Ruck]

[Malsua]

"Leeway"


Ties in with sailing, ties in with freedom, ties in with escaping from an oppressive government.

[American Patriot]

hehe I like Leeway, I'll add it to the list. Gonna have to log in later to see what Ryan is hiding in there (cuz it ain't showing here).

[Malsua]

Ryan's picture is that of Serenity. As in the ship from Firefly.

[Malsua]

"We've got the ultimate leeway"

"No one gave us Leeway"

Which way should we go? Wherever the wind blows....leeward or the Leeway. heh.

[American Patriot]

Cool! Serenity is one I have on the list now (not the one I posted).

[American Patriot]

I kind of like "Scourge" or "Impaler" and "Ravager"....

But my wife will nix those before they are on the list. /snicker

[Ryan Ruck]

hehe I like Leeway, I'll add it to the list. Gonna have to log in later to see what Ryan is hiding in there (cuz it ain't showing here).

What?!?! Tinypic isn't working with your work firewall any longer? That's buillshit...

Here's another. I'll forgo the picture this time - "Defiant".

There you go, my 2 favorite ships.

I like Mal's suggestion too.

[American Patriot]

Defiant! I forgot that one!

[American Patriot]

Ok, this is what I have thus far, and not many of them "leap out".

My wife is compiling her own list too, and I'll eventually combine all this, then we'll go through and eliminate the shit.... (LOL)

Name	Explanation	Language	How Common?
Altair	star name
Andromeda	Galaxy/constellation
Anomaly	word
Antares	star name
Aqurius	Galaxy/constellation
Arabella
Arcane
Arcturus	star name
Argus
Athena	god
Atlantis
Aurora
Barsoom	fictional planet
Betelgeuse	star name
Bluefin
Borealis
Buena Vista
Capella	star name
Cassiopeia	Galaxy/constellation
Centarus	constellation
Challenger
Chameleon	Galaxy/constellation
Chronology	time
Clockwork	time
Colorado
Columbia
Columbine
Constitution
Continium	time
Cumulus
Current
Cutlass
Cygnus	constellation - the swan
Damhban	White Stag	Gaelic
Dawn
Defiant
Diamond
Discovery	word
Dolphin
Dorado	fish
Draco	fictional beast
Dragon	fictional beast
Dreamweaver
Dubloon
Eagle
Elf
Epoch	time
Estralita	fictional space station
Excursion	time
Farscape
Fletcher
Fortune
Frontier	word
Galileo	famous scientist
Gandalf	famous wizard
Genesis
Ghostbane
Glinda
Griffon
Hawk
Hera	god
Hermes	god
Hobbit
Independence
Ionosphere
Jewel
Knight
Leeway	Ties in with sailing, ties in with freedom, ties in with escaping from an oppressive government.
Leprechan
Liberty			Very common
Lion	animal
Lynx	animal - cat
Mage
Magic
Mango	fruit
Manta
Marielee	moms' names
Maryjean	moms' names
Minx
Moonraker
Moonrunner	idea
Morning Star
Nautilus	animal
Nexus	series of connections linking two or more things.
Nimbus
Oblivion	(Good pirate ship name)
Onyx	stone
Orion	constellation
Papillion	(ick, pooh, I got French in my mouth)
Pegusus	constellation
Perihelion
Proteus
Ptolemy	famous scientist
Puma	animal - mountain lion
Quest
Rambler
Ranger
Rapier
Rascal
Reaper
Reliant
Rivendell	elf city
Rogue
Rover
Saphire
Sealion	animal
Seaquest
Seaview
Seavue	Famous sub in a tv show
Seeker
Serenity
Serpent
Shadowfax
Sindarin
Sirius
Solarius
Sorcerer
Sorcery
Starbuck
Starpath	word
Starrunner	word
Startrekker	word
Startripper	word
Stormchaser
Sunset
Swordfish
Telluride
Thor	god
Thorshammer
Ticktock	time
Tiger	animal
Tiki	Adventures in Paradise
Time	time
Titan
Trident
Unicorn
Venus	planet
Vindicator
Viper
Walkabout	idea
Walrus
Wanderer	Captain Ron
Wanderlust
Willow
Wizard
Wolf	animal
Wormwood	location/plant

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As you can see there's a lot of fantasy names (Tolkien etc) and ships from fiction. Estralita is my name for my space station in the novels I've been completing.

I might take that name just cuz. lol

[Malsua]

Well if you're going for Fantasy ship names... Paragon. A "mad" liveship. The hull of the ship, is literally alive and can do pretty much anything it wants if you piss it off.

[Ryan Ruck]

I know it doesn't really work with an ocean-going vessel but it's still funny as hell.

[American Patriot]

LOL

I've seen about a dozen or more of those types of names Ryan.

[Phil Fiord]

I'd say Impregnable, Abacus, or perhaps Redrum.

[American Patriot]

Redrum, lol

I'll have to add "Escape" to the list. I don't want something that suggests a lack of "fertility" lmao!

Abacus? A chinese calculator?

[MinutemanCO]

I like "Bob"... Bob the Boat.

Friggin' weird, I know.

[Phil Fiord]

Redrum is from The Shining. Murder backwards. Abacus may be chinese, but the coming world changes may favor a vessel named as such.

Bob as a boat name has me think of Bob the Builder and as Rick has been doing a lot of that lately, maybe it fits

[Ryan Ruck]

The "Bob" thing would definitely screw with people...

"Who's Bob?"
"The boat. Duh..."

[American Patriot]

Wife came up with "New Horizons" or "Horizons"