Boat names

ThatMoos3Guy · Post by **ThatMoos3Guy** » April 14th, 2007, 1:48 pm

My teams boats are mainly named after donors or old coachs, but two are named:

Veritas in Desserto
Needlfish

stargazertechie · Post by **stargazertechie** » May 4th, 2007, 9:51 am

All of our boats are named after past club Presidents, Donors, and University Presidents.

However, my favorite that I've seen at a Regatta had to be "Inspirational Latin Phrase"

coggs · Post by **coggs** » May 4th, 2007, 3:39 pm

My new Kaschper Raven shows up tomorrow. Rather than paint the hull Kaschper uses a clear coat over the fiber cloth. Looks very stealth like. I'm think of naming her "Carbon Dating".

PaulS · Post by **PaulS** » May 4th, 2007, 5:59 pm

coggs wrote:My new Kaschper Raven shows up tomorrow. Rather than paint the hull Kaschper uses a clear coat over the fiber cloth. Looks very stealth like. I'm think of naming her "Carbon Dating".

I like it! What about "This End Up"

We've been considering a Carl Douglas Custom, potentially named "Leaky Log", to be inlaid in wood by the father of course. That is if he can be convinced. Heck, I may use "This End Up", now that I think of it.

Dagian3 · Post by **Dagian3** » May 10th, 2007, 9:16 pm

I started recreational rowing and erging in my late 40's for my health, and row ECHO rowing shells for exercise and long distance on open water. My first ECHO was teal and is named for a dragonfly found in my state: Nannothemis bella (Elfin Skimmer). My second ECHO is LIVESTRONG yellow and named Tikvah, the Hebrew word for Hope. My next boat will be an ECHO ACE, but I have not picked a name for it yet.

Rockin Roland · Post by **Rockin Roland** » May 12th, 2007, 5:51 am

PaulS wrote:
coggs wrote:My new Kaschper Raven shows up tomorrow. Rather than paint the hull Kaschper uses a clear coat over the fiber cloth. Looks very stealth like. I'm think of naming her "Carbon Dating".
I like it! What about "This End Up"

We've been considering a Carl Douglas Custom, potentially named "Leaky Log", to be inlaid in wood by the father of course. That is if he can be convinced. Heck, I may use "This End Up", now that I think of it.

Paul,
Judging by your taste for beautifully hand crafted timber boats I bet your house is full of antique tables and chairs. I too would appreciate a Carl Douglas Custom timber boat. I would spend hours looking at it but probably could never take it out on the water. I would hang it from the ceiling in our house next to the wall with the handcrafted scull oars that presently adorn it.

Clear gelkote over black carbon fiber boats also look really hot but unfortunately would meltdown in our harsh summers.

reidarooni · Post by **reidarooni** » May 21st, 2007, 10:01 am

my favorite: Myassis Dragon

ckaiserca · Post by **ckaiserca** » July 20th, 2007, 7:12 pm

Not the name of a rowing shell, but. . .

While I was out on the MV Canadian Ranger setting up for a show for the Canada Dry Festival of Fire, I saw a cabin cruiser go by with the name Decision Made. Pasted on the side of the boat was a "For Sale" sign.

albertf_cat · Post by **albertf_cat** » November 6th, 2007, 5:18 pm

Ancho, I used FCR's Big Block last weekend in Amposta

Salut!

Elamonta · Post by **Elamonta** » January 2nd, 2008, 9:14 pm

We have a school that our women race (Nova Southeastern)...all of their boats include "nova" of course...Supernova, Casanova...etc

I have seen some other cool names: at Head of the Hooch I saw a 2x called Double Trouble...I saw an eight called McLovin (from the movie Superbad) that was pretty hilarious...

psucrewcronin · Post by **psucrewcronin** » January 8th, 2008, 2:35 am

We have an old 8 named The Sixty Bucks. Back when it was bought, everyone chipped in $60 to buy it.

We have an atrocious boat named The Hobart, that we affectionately call the Ho. It's always amusing to hear the coxswain say, hands on the Ho, roll the Ho up and over heads, roll the Ho down to waist, and etc... xD

Elamonta · Post by **Elamonta** » January 8th, 2008, 11:18 am

Haha...nice. Before the tornado destroyed our old vespoli fleet we had a four we had comically named "RJ" which was short for Riding Jenny. Our acadamic associate dean for athletics had a daughter named Jennifer. The AD was a real ass to our team and always made travel and expenses more difficult than it had to be so we appropriately named our new rhino V4 the "RJ" because every time we got in the boat we would metaphorically be "riding" her daughter (who was 24 just to clear the age thing up lol)...

Ironically her daughter had moved out of the area just after the tornado hit...and we never "rode" Jenny again lol...

indianlarry · Post by **indianlarry** » March 2nd, 2008, 1:36 pm

We have a single scull called "flying wet pussy 2"

robhen · Post by **robhen** » March 3rd, 2008, 9:00 am

I am thinking of naming my single merkin; short for relatives of Mercedes.

I find merkin the funniest word in English. Anyone who has a good dictionary look it up. It does not mean take a Merc out for a drive.

philrow · Post by **philrow** » March 4th, 2008, 1:49 pm

My high school crew has quite a nice modern fleet of mainly Dirigo and Kaschper 4+s and 8+s. It's a serious organization, so many of the boats are named after respected individuals associated with the school as well as donors, as is the norm. A lot of them are named after nuns.

However, at the Western Reserve Rowing Association, where rowing is a big joke on a bad river, there's little to be serious about. Cleveland State University has a boat called the "Cleveland Steamer." Other boats I've seen include "Hot Sauce," named after some ghetto restaurant in the area, and "Sweet J," named after a local coach's favorite emphatic phrase of "SWEET JESUS!" whenever something goes wrong. There are some real gems in that boathouse, but I haven't been there in months so nothing else comes to mind.

Phil