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jwilliams
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Response Posted - 12/30/2003 : 12:29:45

Of course, "Hey Jude" is from the Beatles. It was "our song" when I met my wife Kirsten in Mallorca 35 years ago. There is a line that says "now that you have found her, go out and get her", that fit for Kirsten and for the boat.

When I get my nutshell tender made I'll call it "Love Me"...tender.

Jim Williams
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 12/30/2003 : 13:15:25

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by jwilliams
 Of course, "Hey Jude" is from the Beatles. It was "our song" when I met my wife Kirsten in Mallorca 35 years ago.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Palma?

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cathluk
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Response Posted - 12/30/2003 : 21:42:14

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by fhopper@mac.com
 In other words we were into LOTR. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

FellowShip is a great name!

I've been into Tolkien for many years & would like to have named our boat Rivendell (as a place of rest & rejuvination for the weary among other things), but Dan had not yet been introduced to the wonders of Middle Earth so it was not a good name for OUR boat at the time. He's since seen the movies & this summer we entertained ourselves onboard with the talking books of The Hobbit & TLOR trilogy. If he has his way the next boat might just be named Lothlorian!

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OceanDreamer
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Response Posted - 12/31/2003 : 16:32:04

Puddin' comes from a line in the play The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder. Most people are more familiar with the musical version: Hello Dolly. If you've seen either version, you may remember that the comic relief is provided by Horace Vandergelder's two young employees Cornelius and Barnaby. The two young men take a surreptitious trip to New York to find "adventure". Problem is that they're not sure they'll recognize adventure when they find it so they select a code word. When one of them thinks they're having an adventure, he'll signal the other by saying the code word: Puddin'.

This is our first boat. My husband has always had a dream of retiring aboard a sailboat but I'd never sailed before we bought this one. Boat ownership and learning to sail has definitely been an adventure for me. Real Puddin'.

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coach
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Response Posted - 12/31/2003 : 19:19:42

We purchased a Cat 25 in October. The name of her is C'est La Vie. Meaning, "This is the life." My 5 year old daughter wants to rename her Gigi. That was what she called my mother before she passed away a year and a half ago.

Our Cat 22 was named Gigi...so when we haul her out this spring, we will have the name changing ceremony and rename her, "Gigi II"

That is if we can get the old name off of her. Any ideas how to do that?

She holds her grandmother very close to her heart and still cries for her at night occasionally. I felt it quite fitting to rename her in my mothers honor.

She loved sailboats. Never got on one. But when she would goto California with my dad. She would make him park near a harbor and just sit and watch the sailboats come in and out.

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triley
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Response Posted - 01/02/2004 : 15:02:58

We have had our c25 for a couple of years now. The PO had a name for it, but took it off before we bought it or we would have kept it. We have had several thoughts 'Annatomical' was one, since the admiral is Ann and I am tom and I am an anthropologist as well, but... Aznother is 'Belle Poule' after the French frigate and lately the schooner of that name. Literal meaning is 'pretty chicken', but the name is actually after the hairstyle of french women of the Bon Ton at court who in the 18th century carried their hair high on their head draped over and around a frame that accentuated the silliness of haute couture.

So--- we haven't named the damned thing yet, dammit!
Hmmm, that sounds good, too!

Tom

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LeighMarie
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Response Posted - 01/02/2004 : 16:41:21

Leigh-Marie:
When we bought our C25 we wanted to rename it to make it personal for us. We thought a number of months, and finally came up with a combination of the middle names of our 2 children who are both girls. As the girls were not real big fans of the boat yet, we thought it would get us some "buy-in" with them seeing their names on the boat. (We think it worked!) But it also rolls well off the tongue, and is a name we had never seen on a boat. It's also a part of the family!

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Corey
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Response Posted - 01/04/2004 : 00:06:09

I decided to name my boat "Between The Sheets" because everything exciting happens Between The Sheets...sailing of course.

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andy
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Response Posted - 01/07/2004 : 19:14:18

I just sold CSCO Kid,a '95 250WB to buy an '87 C25TRWK. CSCO is the stock symbol for Cisco Systems. I owned stock in that company in 2000 when I dedided to buy the 250. Because
of that decision I sold all my cisco stock at almost its high. We all
know what happened to the market after that! So the boat became CSCO Kid.
I've decided to change the name of the new boat (with Neptune's blessing of course), to "45 North". The 45N lat. runs right through the center of Payette Lake (where our boat is docked) in McCall Idaho.

Andy Anderson
45 NORTH - C25 TRWK #5608
MHYC -McCall, Idaho

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bear
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Response Posted - 01/07/2004 : 20:35:00

When we bought our C 250 in 2001 it was named "Uncle Len" by the PO. Since I didn't have an Uncle Len a name change was iminent. My wife and I decided after much thought to name the boat after our faithful Lab "Brandy". Brandy loved the water especially The Great Sacandaga Lake and our inground pool. When I had my speedboat he new that when
the boat slowed down it was water time. It seemed only fitting that our sailboat be named after him. "Brandy" lives on. "Bear" on the hard.

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smp817
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Response Posted - 01/09/2004 : 11:08:13

My dad and I sailed his Snipe racing sailboat back in the 60's and the sailing bug never left me, even through 30 some years of not being able to afford a boat of my own. When I was finally re-exposed to sailing by a friend and realized that I still had the bug and actually could now afford a boat, the name had to fit my life.
"Love & Luck" was a natural. It's, of course, a Jimmy Buffett song, but more than that, it's because of the love of my Junior High sweetheart, that I still am married to, and luck in business decisions, that allowed me to be able to afford the boat at all, that made the name seem right. I'm not trying to be sappy. I just feel very lucky to have a lot of love in my life and lucky to have a few toys.
The name I toyed with before sticking with Love & Luck was "Blue Water Dreams". Anyone who has sailed a brown inland lake will understand the thought. My wife just doesn't understand my dreams to sail "blue water". So far it's just a dream, but someday...

Steve and Nancy Perry
C-25 #5883 "Love & Luck"

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Dkn420
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Response Posted - 01/09/2004 : 19:20:33

After giving it a lot of thought I finally decided to name my boat..."It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere"...as in the Alan Jackson/Jimmy Buffett song...I understand comments in another thread about names associated with "adult beverages"...but what brought me to this name were the lyrics in the song..."if the phone rings for me, tell them that I just sailed away"...Dan #727 "It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere"

And thanks to Alan and Jimmy

and the Parrot Noggin's

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gnorgan
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Response Posted - 01/10/2004 : 01:31:18

Took us at least a year to name our "new" 1989 C25, traditional interior, wing, tall boat.
Settled on "Classical Cat" for a variety of reasons:
We love "classical" music while sailing and other times AND jazz thus one of the reasons for "Cat" as in the phrase "hip cat" (although the last reason below would also apply), this was a "classic" design and was one of the last before the new C250 emerged, and/or its a CATalina. We wanted to name it many different things close to this but in the end it all came together nicely with the name of Classical Cat.
I remember it took about 2 days to name my son, Daniel, and 1 minute to name my daughter, Michelle (after the Beatles song, of course

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mmac
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Response Posted - 01/10/2004 : 11:47:30

I am a teacher. About three years before I bought my boat, I had a wonderful student named Mara. The name had a nautical sound to me. I told her if I ever bought a boat, I would name it after her. When I got my C-25 I already had a name. Mara sounds like the ocean and it is soft and feminine as proper sailboat should be.

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Brooke Willson
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Response Posted - 01/11/2004 : 06:53:08

I've told this story before, but our boat was originally owned by Don Head, a retired soldier who named the boat "Head Quarters." We were struggling with a new name when one day my son looked up at the number on the mainsail and said, "fifty-fifty. . . . even chance."

Some people have asked me if those are the odds of us making it back to the dock.

Were I to get a dinghy, it would be "Little Chance," and if I ever get another boat, it will be either "Second Chance" or "Last Chance."

Brooke
1985 SKTR # 5050 "Even Chance"

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Scott L
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Response Posted - 01/12/2004 : 18:07:16

Well. . . . . We intially thought that Sunshine Daydream was our new boats name and we have been referring to her as that for a few months However..... We have decided on "Ahti" as her permanent name. Ahti is the Finnish god of the sea and since I am 1/2 Finnish, we thought it was a fitting name for a sailboat.

There are no records of Sunshine Daydream to destroy only the digital archives on this website, so I have been doing some reading and can not find any evidence of Neptune having a internet connection, so we feel pretty good about the name change at this point.

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Scott L
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Response Posted - 01/12/2004 : 18:12:29

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sailboatlogos.com
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Response Posted - 01/16/2004 : 15:57:11

The C25 that I dearly loved and sold in July 03 and the C30 that has replaced her will share a comanality in names. The name NEFERTITI will one day adorn the C30. Nefertiti was also the America's Cup Yacht US #19 that my Great Uncle/sailing teacher as a youth was a crew member on. A tribute to the finest yachtsman I've ever known.

Oh.. The name of my now ex C25? Why.. NEFFIE of course! For little NEFERTITI!

Mark Taylor exC25 #5541
'75 C30 #17 SR/FK @ Smith Mtn. Lake, VA

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seastream
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Response Posted - 05/07/2004 : 21:13:04

I bought my 'Illusion' in March 2003. While not my choice, I liked the name well enough and had heard enough bad luck tales about changing names that I left it be. Not being overly superstitious, I'd like to change the name, but other than my last name (nautical but perhaps self serving) I've no clue on what to name her. Upshot is that we'll save the new name for a new boat to arrive in about 10 years (after mortgage is paid

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Buzz Maring
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Response Posted - 05/07/2004 : 22:38:26

... I'd like to change the name, but other than my last name (nautical but perhaps self serving) I've no clue on what to name her. - Robert

Holy cow! All this time I thought your boat's name WAS Seastream! Surely I'm not the only one ...

What a cool last name!

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roberoo
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Response Posted - 05/07/2004 : 22:54:45

Wife Likes Manatees+Daughter Likes Dolphins (all I want is a cook book

)= MANAPHIN

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MattL
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Response Posted - 05/08/2004 : 09:47:45

Speaking of peoples names, my wife had a student a number of years ago with an unusual moniker. His family was into horses hence his name "Latigo" which is part of a saddle.

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mmac
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Response Posted - 05/08/2004 : 10:56:42

Hmmmm! "Latigo" has kind of a nautical ring to it. Might be a good boat name, but I don't know nothing aboat no horses.

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 05/08/2004 : 16:52:24

I once had a FEMA inspector come to my house to look at some storm damage....his name was Bob Flood.

Oscar, on the road in Austin TX.

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Waterboy
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Response Posted - 05/08/2004 : 19:35:46

I've given quite a bit of thought about what to name my recently acquired C250wb. I wanted the name to sound mellifluous as well as reflect my passions and personality. I love to eat good food, and am trained and certified as a le Cordon Bleu chef, so this meant the name needed to be culinary in nature. I love traveling and 'adventure dining' in Mexico and central america, speak passable traveller's spanish, and hope to sail down there soon. So ...

"Sabrosa" ... loosely translates as 'tasty' or good to eat.

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