Mark, I do agree with you. About as unique as it gets really. No confusion about yours. I'm sure getting others to pronounce it correctly is a chore though.
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Not yet. Carquinez is a very familiar place name with anyone knowledgeable of my local waters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carquinez_Strait
It gets worse. Adding "ide" to Sylph means a very YOUNG pixie or fairy. Mythical or not...well....you know...
Mark, I do agree with you. About as unique as it gets really. No confusion about yours. I'm sure getting others to pronounce it correctly is a chore though.
As for our boat, Black Eyed Susan, we knew that many wouldn't know it is the state flower of Maryland but geez we thought SOME would know. Not down here. Annapolis yes, Florida? Nope. When my wife (Sheree) and I are both on the boat the passers by always have the same question for her...."You Susan?". She said she is going to get a polo shirt with Susan embroidered on the pocket just for the boat.
I have yet to find another boat with our name. I was surprised as its not THAT odd of a name....
It's the opening sentence from Atlas Shrugged.
Seriously doubt that anyone with a disgusting boat name has good luck with ladies, who would be caught dead on a boat with such a name? Years ago when I sailed a neighbor named his vessel “Passing Wind”. On the funny side my Orthopedic surgeon named his boat “Bone Voyage”
Wifey B: There's probably no one who loves sexual innuendos and double entendre more than I do, but I find putting them as boat names very inappropriate. You're forcing others who might not like such terms to use those words. I am careful to select the language I use and the words I say based on the audience. The audience using boat names is every other boater, every bridge tender, every lockmaster, and every LEO.
I actually heard a lockmaster refuse to use a boat name. It was a name the CG wouldn't have likely allowed if the boat had been documented. I don't know the outcome but between that lock and the next lock, FWC pulled up to the boat, I'm sure either listening or contacted by the lockmaster, who was quite offended. Perhaps he was overreacting. We were all giggling at the entire episode, but then we didn't have to participate. Even I would not have used the name over the airwaves.
I agree with you both. I debated mentioning it. It's not a name I would have chosen. The boat was located in Clearwater, FL around August 1995.
I had a boss that had a 4x6 picture of himself and wife trying to conceive a child hanging over the sofa. It was his house, but it was my last visit...that was MY choice.
Sounds like you got a good dose of Objectivism in late adolescence!When in college I took some architecture history courses (business major)and we had to read Ayn Rand's Fountainhead and learned all about Howard Roark. Then when getting an MBA we had to read Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and learn about John Galt. I feel I got a great education
How about Caroliner? That's the name I am planning for my boat. Has anyone seen or heard of it before? I have lived in SC all of my life so Carolina then smash ocean liner on the end. I'll do a good bit of boating off the SC/NC coast until I get the feel for my boat so she'll be the Caroliner.
It's a bit of a nonsense word that would be difficult to get across over the radio, but I like what it means.
Thanks.Nice name, thoughtful, is representative of you and means something. Marinetraffic.com shows no other boats with that name. I think its a winner.
...Years ago when I sailed a neighbor named his vessel “Passing Wind”...
Our yacht club participates in a very popular fundraiser race each year. Lots of enthusiasm, big crowds - but for years the annual t-shirt has had that phrase written across the back, "Just Passin' Wind." I'll wear that shirt doing yard work or to bed at night, but never in public.
Yes, a good one as well although you would be spelling quite a bit. Hopefully no one would confuse it with cattywampus (one of several spellings) which has a much different meaning. Basically "all out of whack"!
Did you give up on your original idea of "TFNeedsAnotherBurgee" ??? Probably a good idea.
It’s either that, or ‘M/V who’s ready for another poll??!?’
NO, NOT AGAIN!
Cygnus here. Constellation and my former golden retriever. Miss that wonderful dog.