Conference unifix::sailing

    Try a tacky family name like:
    ROMA-PEDABA after parents Robert and Marge and the little lovelies,
    	Peter, David, and Barbara  
    ANROJI  just the kids this time Andrew, Robbie, and Jill 
       They both sound like social afflictions.
    Or go cutsie....
    BARRY'S CUDA  your name has to be Barry (first or last) and you
    	also have to paint teeth on the bow
    BOATIE BOAT  the owner's of this fine yacht had a dog named Muttie
    	Mutt
    
    I've always liked THUNDER CHICKEN and PRIDE OF KOOKAMUNGA but I
    wonder how seriously I'd communicate with her in a bad situation.
    I don't believe in searching for a name.  It will happen and you'll
    know that it's right.
    
    	MUTT
    
    
    

    Because "wind" appears in your name, perhaps you should think
    about a play on words.
    
    Maybe: Fair Windisch
           South Windisch
           Pray for Windisch
    
    Some lame examples I guess, but as .1 said when you find the right
    name you'll know it.
    
    JJ

    I even put in an S.O.S. to my husband @ Codex for this one.  How
    about:
    
                FairWinds
                Windblown
                Windward (may be too confusing when using nautical terms
    while sailing though or if you were in the West Indies)
                Bay Wind
                Windsong (if you're into KARR or any other good tunes)
                Wind Dancer
                Smooth Winds
                Safe Winds
                Windswept
                Deck Winds or after 19 yrs. here maybe DEC Winds
                Wind Sprint (if you're into racing)
                Wind Sprite
                Windbag (not to complimentary for a bachelor!)
                Windblown
                Windfall (denotes good fortune)
                Windjammer (back to music--if you're into "good jammin',
    mon"
    There are books in stores, not just in a chandlery's or marina.
    I'm a new noter in #1199.  Choosing ours for our O'Day 27' was
    easy--"Gail Warnings"! Work in MRO3; living in Framingham; boat
    on Cape @ Cataumet @ Kingman Marine.  Good luck, Ed.
    
               Gail Wish-Young
    

    How about "Irv, the boat"?  Or "Pigs at Sea"?  Or (since this is
    a bachelor's boat) "No Fat Chicks"?  Anything but "Halcyon".
    
    Dave

    How about WindEd?   Couldn't resist that name play.......
    
    After all, our boat is Sea Walker! (Wind Walker was already taken.......

    Hi Ed.  I still have the list from the NER when I named my boat back in
    1980.  I'll send it over hardcopy.  It's too long to type in.
    
    Regards,
    
    Jeff
    
    BTW - Want to sail to St. Croix in June?? 
    

Cant resist adding this story- I think I read it in Yachting or somesuch mag,
abouyt 15 years ago. Seems a fellow was having a boat built by Choy Lee in Hong
Kong. At some point he was sent a blueprint, onto which he was supposed to write
in things like color of cushions, cabin trim, etc. One item was to fill in the
name- since he hadn't yet decided on a name he wrote LEAVE BLANK on the print.

It was delivered nicely gold leafed on the transom, and he kept the name.

    RE: .4
    
    Hey!  What's wrong with Halcyon???   :)
    
    
    Travis Belton
    "Halcyon"
    
    
    
    

    Our boat is named MOREY'A DHU.
    
    A pretty name that very few know what it means.....
    
    Welsh for Dark Haired Mary
    
    Paul

Geschwindisch is German dialect for "speedy"

    re .8  Nothing is wrong with Halcyon.  It's just that every third
    boat on the New England coast has that name and I didn't think we
    need another :^).
    
    Another name I love is one that belongs (belonged?) to an Etchells
    in Marblehead.  "Puss Filled Maggot".  Seems he named it that just
    to hear the race committee anounce it at the award ceremonies.
    
    Dave

    How about a touch of Greek Classical Mythology.......
    
    CIRCE a Greek Enchantress (of mariners) who occaisionaly turned
    men into swine.
    
    I am told, by the other half, that part of the description is no 
    reflection on my skippering......
                     
    
    Pete. 
    
    CIRCE

    
    Paint "MY FIRST BOAT" on the transom, upside down.
    

    re .12
    
    Ain't no Etchells by that name in Marblehead.  But words to the
    same effect are often exchanged around the course.  
    
    8^)
    
    - gene

    Yeah, Gene there is (was).  Wasn't painted on the boat, just put
    on the race application.  My partner knows the guy and tells of
    the time the Eastern YC refused to refer to the boats name in its
    award presentations.  Words used on the race course are a bit stronger
    if I recall ;^).
    
    Dave

    Best named boat by a batchelor prize has to go to the owner in
    Wellfleet who had
    
    		AFTER YOU
    
    on the transom.  I can just hear his line at a party - "How about
    a sail with me on my boat.  I named it after you.":-)
    
    Ron

    Well, you could name it "East Wind", and you'd have the same initials.
    
    If you're a Grateful Dead fan you could name it "Sugar Magnolia" or
    "Terrapin" (just kiddin').
    
    I always thought "Romantic Warrior" would be a good name for a boat
    (after one of my favorite pieces of music) or "Valkyrie" (after another
    famous piece of music).
    
    Or you could go with the "Sea" theme, a la "Phanta-Sea" or "Passing
    Fan-Sea", etc.
    
    Or hey, you're a Digit, think up a suitable ACRONYM!
    
    ... Bob
    

    My favorites come from a person's (a DECie) present and past boats:
    
    Boat is named NON SEQUITOR,   and the dinghy (towed behind) SEQUITOR.
    
    His previous boat was owned by someone named Goldstern, so the boat was
    named 
    
    
    STERN, on transom, with gold letters, of course;  
    
    the dinghy was named TENDER BEHIND.
    
    /Don
    

    RE .19
    
    Yeah, I like the idea of having boat & dinghy combinations like that.
    
    Our boat's name is WAGS, and the dinghy's named WITCHES.  So when you
    step from the boat to the dinghy you're going from ...
    
    ... Bob
    

    
    Ours is ESS Woofie, and the tender is Puppy.
    

    ... and, recalling the name of former Yankees and Red Sox manager
    Ralph Houk's boat:
    
    		THANKS YANKS
    
    maybe something like:
    
    		THANKS AGAIN, KEN
    
    	would be appropriate. ;-)
    
    Ron
    

Then there's my boat "A CREWED INTEREST" and the dinghy "LEGAL TENDER"!

A couple of years ago in Hadley's I saw "MOBY DICK" followed by "MOBY DINK"!

My brother in-law's old boat was "EASY RIDER" followed by "QUEAZY RIDER".

B-)

bc

    Our boat which is named the FREUDIAN SLOOP because my wife is a
    psychologist first had a hard fiberglass dinghy named the SUPEREGO and
    now has an Inflatable named the ID.
    
    /jim 

  This is fun !
    
  Our boat is named "Beginnings" since she is (obviously ?) our first
  boat. I've been thinking that I will name our new dinghy "Endings",
  but somehow I have a feeling that it may preclude just that....
  
    
    JC
    

    Ed
    
    Reg. .0
    
    Aren't you glad you asked for the assistance??? :-)
    
    Maybe SOUND ADVICE might fit your boat, with dinghy :== AFTERTHOUGHT
    
    Ron
    

    sailed for a few years aboard a boat named FAIRHOPE, with its
    dinghy being named (of course) LASTHOPE...

    How about  "Water Balloon"
    
    
    
    Welcome to Sailing
    
    Frank

    fellow on Narragansett Bay has a steel junk. Forget the
    name of the boat but the dingy was "Piece of Junk".
    
    Maybe you ought to name your dingy first. That will lead you to
    an appropriate name for your "ship".
    
    Don

Not that it applies to your Cape Dory, but....

One of my favorite names for daysailers has always been "Sloop d'jour"

    What about HOMUNCULUS for a small boat?
    

    
       You work for Field Service...Name the boat UPTIME and the Dingy
     DOWNTIME.
    
       My wife wants me to name ours THIS SIDE UP ...
    
       My favorite is BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED ...
    
                                       Randy

A contrary view:

Boat names that are word plays (like many so far suggested) or cute
references to the owner's profession (like many so far suggested) are, I
think, initially funny but not names I much like or would choose for my 
boat. 

I like boat names that refer in some way to nature (First Light,
Northern Star, Seal, Warm Rain, Flying Cloud, Running Tide, Wavemusic,
Moonshadow, Artic Tern, Windward Passage) or in some way to the delight,
pleasure, and adventure of sailing (Freedom, Independence, Whisper,
Running Free, Romance) or have a romantic flavor (Myth of Malham,
Maid of Kent, Woodwind, Fantasy, Illusion) or somehow be expressive of 
the owner's life and philosophy (Wanderer, Outward Bound, Second Life). 

I like names with a euphonious and gentle ring to them, names that are
easily understood on the radio, are not too long, are pronounceable, and
though uniqueness is nice it is not essential. A name should not offend
anyone (in any language or in any place) nor should it be a name that is
laughed at. Tacky names are everywhere, delightful names unfortunately
aren't. 

Like I said, a contrary view.

    I saw a documentary about the Cherokee Indians a few years back.
    The very last scene had a rather old man lamenting the demise
    of his tribe. The last thing he said was "A Cherokee never says
    goodbye, he says SKA YEW". (I'm not sure of the spelling), which means
    "Be Strong". As soon as I trade my Hobie for something bigger I'm
    going to name her that.
    
    I figure that someone at the capitol of the Cherokee Nation in
    Talequah Ok. could provide a spelling.
                             
    Jeff 

    Re: .33 
    Way to go Alan. I was away for a day or so and when I came back I
    though I was in the middle of a "Name that Stinkpot" contest. ;^)
    
    I sure has generated a lot of interest tho'.
    
    J_R

    RE .33
    
    Goes to show, one's person's "tacky" is another person's "delight". 
    Personally, I'd never name a boat "Arctic Tern" or "Maid of Kent". 
    I don't think finding a name with a little humor or word play is tacky
    in the least.  Contrary views are the spice of conversation.  But is it
    necessary to refer to other people's ideas as "tacky"?  Perhaps there's
    a valid reason why there are so few boats out there with names you'd
    find "delightful".  Good taste is so damn subjective, you know.
    
    RE .35
    
    "Name that Stinkpot" ???
    
    You're kidding, right?
    
    ... Bob

re: .33,

Well, as a sea-going romantic myself, I also tend to agree with Alan's 
feelings.  But there is some tradition behind it all.  

Boats used for personal pleasure were always yachts, and yachts (all 
boats, for that matter) were *always* feminine, and referred to without 
exception as "she" or "her".  Accordingly, names were intended to be 
consistent with this view (for some, now an arcane view.)

One's perspective (even mine) changes when a boat becomes an "it" rather 
than a "she".  Today, most boatowners look upon their craft as an "it", as 
I think some designs and construction well befits ;-).  And an it can
tolerate a much cutesier name, even a bald pun, I suppose, without being 
so out of place or sounding inappropriate.

My grandfather's lessons are destined to stay with me; I'll always sail 
"her".

J.

    When I told people I was buying a wooden boat, I got all sorts of
    admonishment. Since I "sailed against their wind", and since I've had 
    nothing but fun (well, SOME frustration) rebuilding her, and since she 
    was designed as a racer, I thought I would name her:
    
    
    			DEFIANT
    
    Gregg

    I was watching commercial T.V. last night and two words of a phrase
    popped out, "Wind Instrument". Having played a clarinet for years
    this was interesting to me.
    
    Talking about cutesy names and profession indicators, our boat is
    called "Infinite Sloop".
    
    rob

    So - JCR had to pull a "Stink Pot" Joke ---
         The only reason he doesn't include the name of his vessel is
         he needs to check the transom for spelling first :>)
    -----------
    
    Be sure not to pick a name so cute that it is un-pronouncable in
    an emergency (ex a MAYDAY......)
    
    -----------
    My "Stink Pot" is the "Phanta Sea" as I hope it counjures up an
    image of the sea in the minds of others.
    
    I'm a member of the Cousteau Soc & my dingy is an inflatable that
    folds  away for long voyages or if weather looks bad (Stink pots
    don't tow dinks)  -- so the dingy's name is  "Collapso". 
    ---------
                                Good luck 
                                          Lou

	Since it was an inheritance that indirectly 'bought' our boat,
She is named 'SWEET P'.  I didn't know until after naming the dink 'P POD' that
that is the name of a downeast design of craft.


	Dave

    I like to see romantic names on wooden boats. Wooden boats are
    alive to me, it seems right to call them 'she'.
    
    On the other hand, I have trouble getting romantic about a big piece 
    of glass reinforced plastic. I think of fiberglass boats as 'its'. 
    
    -Paul                          

    My boat is named CAPRICE and her dingy WHIM.  Since the dictionary
    defines caprice as an illogical change of feeling or opinion and
    my boat is a big old ketch, it seemed appropriate.
    
    My brother-in-law owned a Contessa 26 which was named PATTE D'OURS
    which is french for bear's paw....so she was the bear's foot Contessa.
    

re: .38,

...or given your steadfast dedication to the project:  RESOLUTE?

    RE:33
    		
    		I THOUGHT YOUR REPLY WAS A REFRESHING CHANGE

    				CB

    I like Alan's ideas as well. I'm still struggling with a name for the
    boat I'm building. I liked 'Occam's Razor' for a long time, since I
    have and engineering background (and take it as an admonishment). But
    my wife hates having to explain it, so I'll probably name the boat
    'Julia Munroe', after my paternal grandmother.
    
    Ross Faneuf
    

    Hi, I was back in .03.  Believe it or not, I keep thinking of a
    name for you, Ed.  Even asked my neighbor (has a Contessa or is
    it Contest? 25').  How about Winded (as in out of breathe) or spell
    it Wind-Ed.  Don't know if I mentioned "Unwind" as in relax in .03.
    I want to rename our friend's dinghy that we're buying.  It's now
    "Tender Behind".  However, it seems when we sought out marinas
    everything was a 2 hour drive from Framingham--I think we should
    call the dinghy "Tookus Two"  or "Tookus 2"--also if you know any
    Yiddish, you know that "tuchas" (sp?) means the same as "tush".
    My husband, who isn't Jewish, and who isn't keen on ethnic names
    for boats still wants "Jumpin' Jack Splash" (W..we're avid rock & roll
    fans and this dinghy is definitely going to do that!)  I also still
    like Windjammer.
    
    Ed, out of all these ideas have you narrowed it down to a few at
    least?  Best of luck,     
    
                                   Gail Young
                                 "Gail Warnings"

    I don't know if anybody else suggested it on the replies of this
    note,but there is a booklet called "Let's name it" claiming to have
    10,000 names to choose from.Price $ 9.95 from IM books.If you are
    interested I can send you the address of this company to order it.
    One more thing,I do suggeest that whetever name you give the boat
    pleases you and yours.
    
    
    
    

    I may have told the story of my boats name else where, but it's
    unique enough to repeat.
    
    I choose a name which reflects many of my interests and a bit wierd
    coincidence.
    
    	For Astronomy - The largest know structures in the Universe.
    	For Physics   - The smallest postulated entities.
    	For Music     _ My favorite instruments.
    	For Sport     _ Fishing
    
    	"Her" name is SUPER STRING.
    
    	Re an earlier reply, I understand about always needing to
    	explain it!
    
    Jerry
    

    re .49
    As to reasons...
    
    I named my boat "HOPE".
    
    Because I "hoped" it would work out with my wife.
    
    Has it worked out? Well, better than I thought.
    
    Don 

    Don,
    
    All this time I thought you were a big fan of Rhode Island
    ("Hope" is the state motto).
    
    -Paul

    Paul,
    
    Nope, that's a fact. I can remember thinking "Gee, they named that
    bridge after my boat, wonder why they added the Mount, to make it
    the Mount Hope Bridge".
    
    Don

    Ed,  Driving in my car last night thinking of your predicament.
    Is your Dory a ketch?  Even if it isn't--how's abt--are you ready
    for this sports fans?--
    
                         KETCH THE WIND
    
    I started thinking of song titles and thought of Donavan's Catch
    the Wind and bingo!!    
                          or there's always
    
                           WINDKETCHER/WINDCATCHER
    
    ED!!!!MAKE A DECISION!! I'M LOOSING SLEEP OVER THIS AND I DON'T
    EVEN KNOW YOU!!
    
                             Carry on,
    
                            Gail Young
                           "Gail Warnings"

>	Well, the guy - in thru sailor spirit - went out and bought a new racer
>	and called it FUJIMO - (F**k U Jane, I'm Moving Out).

	Reminds me of the bumper sticker:

	My wife says that if I go fishing one more time, she'l leave me.....
	Boy, I gonna miss her...

    Been away for awhile, now I gotta answer .36 and .40.
    
    Bobbie, Bobbie, Bobbie! How many time's do I have to tell ya? I'm
    *never* serious. Just my sarcastic (half?) wit showing thru.
    
    Lou, you ought to warn people that we're (or is that were?) friends
    first, otherwise they'll think you're flaming me.
    
    To answer the question about my boat names, I've had both types,
    'tacky' and otherwise.
    
    First was "Deliverance", not obviously cute until you know that the
    previous owner was a doctor (ob/gyn).
    
    Currently I have "Shibumi" which I've used three times. Initially it
    was on a boat I bought so I don't take credit for imagination. Shibumi
    was the name of a best seller spy novel in the early 80's by Tervanian.
    It is a Japanese word used to describe an ultimate level of mental
    achievement by a Samurai warrior:
    
    "A mystical goal, rare kind of personal excellence, state of effortless
    perfection". 
    
    It describes my image of sailing quite nicely.
    
    J_R

    re .33
    
    Last time I was in L.A. I viewed the boats in Marina Del Rey.  In one
    slip was a 25' Schlock (sp) with the name "Cosmic Wind" painted on
    the side.  Unfortunately, the top of the "d" had worn off and left
    the boat named "Cosmic Wino."  

    ok I am getting a "new" boat, a 36 foot Columbia sloop - Crealock
    designed - built 1969. I was thinking about KESTREL as a name - common
    though it is. What do you think??
    
    

    RE .54 (FUJIMO)
    
    Wow, that story made it across the puddle, eh?  There's a guy on our
    crew who claims to know the originator (yup, according to him it's a
    true story and there really is (was) a Jane involved).  I always just
    thought it was a folk tale.
    
    RE .56 (Bobbie ...)
    
    Geez, only my mother calls me that anymore.  Mom, is that you ??
    
    :^)
    
    RE .57 (Cosmic Wino)
    
    Perhaps one of the more appropriate names I've seen so far, except that
    most sailors I know drink beer (except for Dennis Conner, who drinks
    Pepsi and eats Crow)...
    
    ... Bob
    

    Re: .59
    
    You obviously haven't met either Dave Carter (Elysium) or Phil
    Eugene (who, by the way, STILL hasn't named his boat either)
    
    JC
    

    But wine drinkers aren't REAL sailors. They do despicable things
    like using the engine to get on and off the mooring. The high
    correlation between beer drinking and sailing skill has been proven
    by several independent research studies. :)
    
    -Paul

    RE: .0
    
    Hey Ed,
    
    You still there??
    
    ANy closer to naming her :-)
    
    Is there a prize??
	
    
    You at least close to going in the water???
    
    Ron
    

    re: .61
    
    Hey, have you been watching me try to leave my mooring ? 
    
    :-)
    
    JC
    

    Re: .63
    
    No, I haven't been watching. Are you good entertainment?
    
    -Paul

    Re note .61, Paul what's the name of your boat, "BAD AIR?"  I want
    to be sure to sail elysium upwind from you beer drinking folks.
     :-)
    
    I think we just found another way of pidgeon holing other boaters.
    
    beer drinkers       wine drinkers
    wooden boaters      clorox bottle sailors
    stink potters       rag boaters/wind bags  (maybe beer drinkers
                                                 fit both categories
                                                  here   ;-)  )
    racers              cruisers
    
    
    

    The name of my boat is SHOCKWAVE but I may change it to BELCHBREATH
    or BEERGUT.
    
    My crew is on a strength building program - eating alot of beans
    for protein. If you sail to leeward of us, beer breath is the least
    of your worries.
    
    -Paul

                       -<What about "RIGHT-ON" ???>-
    
    Hi Ed,
    
    I have the same problem to name my boat. My old boat I named of
    Right-On, it took 2 years to choose, then I sold it to a friend
    with the name. Now I'm looking to a new name, the current one is
    "TUDO LEGAL", that means in Portuguese "OK" or "ALL RIGHT".
    
    Good luck, Fernando.
    
    

    I  just added this conference to my notes, and i agree with Allan's
    .33. I just  bought a Hans Christian ( and probably a divorce )
    and have named HER "Lady Marion". The dingy is "Robin Hood".
    
    I thought of naming her "Defiant" because  one of the best Alec
    Guiness movies is "Damn the DEfiant" but the name has been taken.
    
    Mike Leary
    
    P.S. Anyone want to sail to Austrailia within the next couple of
    years??
    
    

    No one hit any names that seemed very 'spiritual'.  My boat is named
    NASHALLAH - Arabic for 'Will of God'.  I saw it on a boat in Florida
    and thought it appropriate even if the name is almost longer than
    my Columbia 22'!

    
    This may sound funny but.....  I was driving in this morning and
    trying to think of a node name for a VAXstation that I was to get
    about two quarters ago...  The name "Half Hitch" came to mind and
    while tring to come up with the different variations with six char.
    I thought about this note..  Then came the idea of "SQUARE KNOT"
    for the boat and "HALF HITCH" for the dinghy!!  The heck with the
    VAXstation !!!!  It wont float anyway!!!!!!!
    
    Good luck
    `Charlie'

    Here's a couple that I've noticed out in the Salem Harbor area during
    the past couple of weeks ...
    
     - a motorcraft (floating Winnabago actually) named MISS B HAVEN
    
     - a large 2-masted cruiser named MILLER TIME with an old wooden dink
       hanging from her stern named SS BEERGUT (I kid you not!)
    
    ... Bob
    

    Any one seen Ed??  YOu know, the guy who started this question??
    
    Ron
    

    HEY ED!  Whaz goin' on?  We sailed to the Vineyard this w/e for
    the first time.  Our friends brought along their new Norlantic
    inflatable with the huge 3 hp engine.  we decided Don Johnson had
    nothing on us--we could call this dinghy "Cigarette Butt"! Did anyone
    else sail to MV this w/e, particularly on Sunday when we were rockin
    and rollin out there!  Going to cruise thru these notes to see if
    anything more recent is on there.
    
    So Ed, what's the boat's name?  Gail Young/Gail Warnings

    By now you've probably done the naming...one strong
    suggestion.  If you ever get in trouble and are radioing
    the Coast Guard, you need a name that is easily identified.
    I named my boat SVOBODA (Ukranian for freedom).  Great name,
    huh?  Try pronouncing it over a lot of static when the wind 
    is blowing 30 knots on Buzzrds Bay.  Stick with sound
    alikes to the alpha bravo charlie type words that radio
    jocks are used to.
    
    Oh, and if you need inexpensive lettering done in vinyl,
    call me at work and I'll give you the name of an outfit
    that dows the work then mails it to you.
    
    Beau
    

    RE .74
    
    >> Try pronouncing it over a lot of static when the wind is blowing ...
    
    I saw a couple at the NOOD Regatta last week I have trouble pronouncing
    when I'm dead nuts sober and the weather's calm.  One was OBSTREPEROUS
    and the other was CONTUMACIOUS.  Racing boats pick the wierdest names
    sometimes, just like race horses.  Funny too, seems like the longest
    names end up on the smallest boats.  One of my favorites though was
    short ... a J/24 named ACK!.  I'd love to hear them calling out that
    one at an awards ceremony ... :^)
    
    I like the way Dick Wagner, the guy I crew for, came up with the
    name for his previous boat, a Hunter 25.  He was going to name it
    ESCAPE.  So he went out and picked up the letters.  When a friend asked
    him what he was going to name it he handed the bag of letters to his
    friend and said "see if you can figure it out".  The guy spelled out
    SPACEE.  And so that's what they named it.  Turned out to be kinda
    appropriate.  :^)
    
    ... Bob
    

    Hey Ed,
    It's been a year...
    What did you name her?
    
    :>)
    Rob\Blue Blazes
    
    PS  I chartered a boat out of San Diego called VALHALLA! I belevie this
    to be the drinking hall of the Norse gods!  Try phonetically spelling
    that - 'cause nobody can understand "VALAHALLA" over the radio!

    Not really the drinking hall of the gods.  More like the retirement
    home.

    As an ex-Marblehead resident, now living in Santa Cruz, CA, with a boat
    berthed San Francisco bay, enjoy hearing little tidbits about the
    North Shore and the Cape. Feel very fortunate that we can sail year-round
    out here, after spending many a winter Sunday in the "Landing" watching
    the "Frostbiters" race back and forth in the empty harbor. But anyway;
    to make a long story short...
    I recently traded my 1980 Catalina 30, named "Wind Drifter" for a 1990
    Catalina 30 (loved the old one, so why switch). In looking for a new
    name, I spotted this note and read all 77 replys. Lots of fun exchanges, 
    but no names... We, the wife and I, and mind you, a wife who loves sailing
    as much as I do, (so no need for innocent sounding acronyms or divorce 
    papers in this case) got down to two names, Sea Quill (play on words for 
    a second boat) and Pieinthesky (ala Jimmy Cliff's song "The Harder They 
    Come" sort of). Because the boat is documented, we had to chose a name 
    right away. We picked "Pieinthesky". End of story. So what the heck ever
    became of Ed?  Was there really ever an Ed? And Ed, what's in a name
    anyway?
    
    Joe
                 

    Ed:
    
    Are you out there Ed, did you name the boat ?  After reading 78 replys
    I'm dying to know what you chose.  (Given the last note I saw from ed
    on this topic was quite a while ago, I fear I'll never find out.)