Boat Names

 One of my favourite photo snapping projects, and definitely the one that has been going for the longest is Boat Names. 

Naming a boat is like naming a child. Or a band. You may want it to mean something to everyone who sees it, or you may want it to mean something just to you. Or you may have intended the first and got the second even. 

Having been trying to have a boat of my own for years, I have had a series of  lists of possible names, even when a prospective boat is not even on the cards. 

Every harbour I go to, I will, at the first chance, walk up and down the quay and snap the boat names, especially the funny or interesting ones. 

Over the years I have noticed that some names are more popular than others. I would say that there are probably more female names than male for sure. In any case boats are supposed to be female, at least in England they are. 

I refer to boats, especially beautiful ones, as "she". It is out of respect and love. 

Apparently Germans consider boats to be male. I found this out when buying a wooden boat from some German friends. I kept saying "she" and they laughed. Then they explained.

Over the years I have found boats named after all my ex-wives, daughters, girlfriends, girl friends and acquaintances. 

One of the most popular is:

SOFIA means Wisdom in Greek

 

In fact I have so many Sofias I could do a whole post on that name alone.  But let's start from some funny and odd ones.

AGINARA actually means artichoke in Greek. A vegan name obviously

Antidote. Actually quite clever.

Babakita is a play on greek words, split in two it would mean "Dad, look!"

Captain Guilty the third no less, spotted last year (2023) in Mourtos

Oh how the times they are a changin'... Cocktail bar boat in Mourtos

I have to confess it sounded odd, spotted in Porto Karras, but it translates to "Second Home"

Platu 25 spotted in Kavala. makes sense really, there is no way sleep and sailing a Platu go together

And now, one of the weirdest names I have seen, in greek even weirder.

Whoever is picking names for Sunsail boats has a weird sense of humour.

So that's it for boat names for today. Many, many more to come. It is not just the names, but the boats themselves, some of them are such great characters... 

Like this one, spotted in Ithaca if I remember well, Kioni.

It takes a lot of balls to name a boat like that. Especially a 4,5 meter wooden fishing boat

Stay tuned for more, coming soon