I'm not so clever, but my father-in-law had a knack for naming things. He converted a wooden longboat from the Coast Guard Cutter Eagle into a 22' sloop, with a small engine and gaff rig, he named, " Egglet ". His dog was called " BD ", for Brown Dog. His boat was a 30 ft wooden center cockpit John Atkins ketch he named, "GB" There was a small letter "d" in the middle and that stood for "damn".
Our boat was named "Resolute" when I bought her, and I like that name and what it means. ". . . firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion." I'm a big fan of Hornblower and Jack Aubrey novels and it sounds very HMS ish . Boats named Resolute have a long history of surviving adversity. There was a square rigger named Resolute that went searching for the Northwest Passage and got stuck in the ice in Canada, 1854. The crew abandoned the ship and survived. The ship was found free the next year, 7 miles away and refitted by Americans and returned to England as a gift. The English scrapped her but made a desk from some of her wood that Queen Victoria sent to serve the President of the US, called the Resolute Desk. There was also a Nat Herreshoff design of the same name that won the Americas Cup in 1920. Built before WWI, which postponed the races until 1920, she suffered a dismasting , but was fitted a better designed mast and won her battle against a longer challenger. Chuck Resolute 1990 C&C 34R Atlantic City, NJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick H. Wesley" < hickland @ telus .net> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2014 10:36:08 PM Subject: Re: Stus-List Now Boat Names If you are thinking about choosing/changing a boat name, apply this test: how well will it work in a VHF radio call? I chose " The Boat " and it gives people a laugh (the wife, the dog etc) but on the radio I have to say "sailing vessel the boat" to avoid confusion. Patrick Wesley, 24, The Boat, Sidney BC On Thursday, March 6, 2014, Dave Godwin < dave . godwin @me.com > wrote: Well, since it’s (still!) winter here in the Northern Hemisphere (and Northern Neck) and we’re on the topic of boat names, I thought I’d offer up why my boats are always named “ Ronin ” should anyone be interested. 'Cause folks are always asking me if I’ ve seen the the move “ Ronin ”. Yes, I have... As many of you probably know, Ronin literally means “Wave Man.” That is one of several reasons that I chose the name. Seemed apt. The other idiomatic definition is “wandering man.” This is another very important reason I had for choosing the name. I’m a old foreign service brat and have spent a fair amount of time growing up outside of my native United States. More like well-heeled traveling than wandering actually, but hey, it fits the narrative. As part of the wandering bit, I spent my senior year of high school in a boarding school in Japan a long, long way from my family. I loved it. I loved my time immersed in Japanese culture and it’s esthetic . And significantly, my Japanese History classes were taught by a teacher that had a profound impact on me. I learned the nature of “character is destiny” as the significant factor to historical milestones as opposed to dry historical dates. But I digress. The other factor in the choice of the name Ronin is that it is the term used to describe a “ salaryman ” who is between jobs or a student who has not been accepted to a university. I’ll let it stand at that. Both definitions are appropriate. There are other relative interpretations that involve class rank that are complex with regard to the definition. Anyway, most folks think that when I tell them that our boat is named Ronin they assume that it involves sharp swords and slicing people into little bits. That isn ’t even remotly why I name my boats Ronin . Cheers, Dave Godwin 1982 C&C 37 - Ronin Reedville - Chesapeake Bay Ronin ’s Overdue Refit On Mar 6, 2014, at 10:27 AM, Edd Schillay < edd @ schillay .com > wrote: <blockquote> As you may have guessed, my boat's name is based on a Lucille Ball / Desi Arnez-produced 1960’s failed train-wreck NBC television series . . . . . . which led to highly-rated syndication, five spin-off television series and 12 feature films, not to mention decades and decades of merchandising dollars for Paramount/Viacom. For me, though, the Starship Enterprise was an “escape vehicle” — when I got home from grade school in the 70s, I could leave all the pressures and troubles behind, turn on WPIX channel 11, and I’ll be exploring the final frontier’s strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilizations . . . In 1980, I bought my first sailboat, an O’Day 7-11 sailing dinghy, pretty much right after the release of The Motion Picture, a wholly lousy film on may levels, except for the Enterprise itself. Once again, I felt my imagination was able to escape the day-to-day life in suburbia. There could be no other name. The sailboat had to be named Enterprise. When I turned 18, after I got the whole “you’re a man now” speech from my father, I aptly decided to cut school to see the third movie with some friends for my birthday, and got the worst birthday present ever — the Enterprise exploded from self-destruct over Planet Genesis. My escape vehicle was gone. Adulthood slapped me in the face - hard. Fortunately, a couple of years later, I went to see the fourth feature film - a time-travel story to rescue humpback whales from 20th-Century earth. At the very end, Kirk and crew were delivered to a brand new Enterprise with a hull number of NCC-1701-A. The escape vehicle was back and my imagination could, one again, boldly go. Since then, we have seen several future versions of the famed starship ; 1701-B, 1701-C, 1701-D, 1701-E and even a brief glimpse of the 1701-J. So, like the series, I decided that all of my future vessels will also carry the name Enterprise, and I’ll have my very own escape vehicle to get away from the pressure of work and life while exploring LI Sound and the surrounding areas. As I tell my crew, when sailing on the Enterprise, we have one Prime Directive — Wherever we go, we go boldly. All the best, Edd Edd M. Schillay Starship Enterprise C&C 37+ | Sail No: NCC-1701-B City Island, NY Starship Enterprise's Captain's Log </blockquote> -- Sent from Gmail Mobile _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http :// www . cncphotoalbum .com [email protected]
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