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TuscaroraBorealis	03/27/2010 11:07AM   I'm a big fan of the movie Forrest Gump. When he bought his shrimpin' boat, they told him it was good luck to give it a name. With that in mind, I decided to call my vessel THE BLACK PEARL. 17 ft. Bell Seliga tripper BG. Just wondering if there's anyone else out there who has actually taken the time to come up with a name for their "boat"? Or am I the only crazy one?
GSP	03/27/2010 03:00PM   Lady Gisselle.
Jackfish	03/27/2010 03:51PM   No name. Just "the vessel".
kanoes	03/27/2010 03:59PM   mine came prenamed. Magic. kinda catchy i think.
mr.barley	03/27/2010 04:04PM   I call my tandem "my tandem" and I call my solo "my solo".
gutmon	03/27/2010 04:14PM   Not a boat, but my wife named my solo tent "The Wind Tunnel"...
TuscaroraBorealis	03/27/2010 04:17PM   My buddy has one of those old Alumacrafts he has dubbed THE SILVER BULLET.
andym	03/27/2010 05:16PM   Our aluminum hulk was resurrected after being wrapped around a rock on a river. It's called "The Silver Phoenix."
OneMatch	03/27/2010 05:33PM   My Mad River Explorer came with a name Blem
SouthernExposure	03/27/2010 05:35PM   My Freedom 17 cedar stripper was christened Oshan Okapini, Choctaw Indian language for The River Otter. SE
Doc_of_the_bay	03/27/2010 07:10PM   "Patches"
silverback	03/27/2010 04:22PM   My Old Town is refered to as "Duck Up".
moose plums	03/27/2010 05:42PM   quote mr.barley: "I call my tandem "my tandem" and I call my solo "my solo"." I use the same...but also the it's the Northwoods and the Magic.
Koda	03/27/2010 08:19PM   Mad River Eclipse - "Luna" WhiteGold Bell Wildfire - "Lotus" Bell MorningStar - "Venus" BlackGold Bell Wildfire - "Black Bart" Royalex Wildfire - "Frankenboot" or "Frank" for short The Prism - just The Prism. I'm resisting with all my might calling the Mad River Independence "(The) Indy." Boats I've sold: the cedar strip was "Rosie," short for Gypsy Rose Lee, the famous stripper. The Mad River Explorer (all 88 pounds of her) was "Bertha." The SoloPlus and the Sandpiper had several unprintable names. The Sundowner was just The Sundowner. The (yellow) Bell Prodigy was The Banana. The (purple) Mad River Outrage X I'm borrowing is the Purple Pickle. And last but not least, my sailboat (Buccaneer 18) was named "Arnevieve" after my children. Naming boats? What a dumb idea.
bojibob	03/27/2010 09:37PM   I call mine "Rented"
Chilly	03/27/2010 09:51PM   Cool, that's what I call my girlfriends. jk
shr2807	03/27/2010 10:02PM   I haven't settled in on a name, but I'm thinking "Jensen" for my Wenonah Jensen 17. I know it's a stretch.
Bannock	03/27/2010 10:30PM   I had a wenonah Sandpiper named See More. I had an OT Discovery 174 named Bertha. Current Boats: Sawyer Autumn Mist is Autumn Mist wenonah Argosy is Argosy wenonah Prospector 16 is Lewis (It is a Lewis & Clark Special Edition)
oldgentleman	03/27/2010 02:04PM   My son Joshua named his Penobscot "Sorrow", after the poem: I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chatted all the way; But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow, And ne’er a word said she; But, oh! The things I learned from her, When sorrow walked with me. -Robert Browning Hamilton
TomT	03/27/2010 04:22PM   Mine are "the blue guy" and "the solo".
lorileinenkugel	03/27/2010 05:34PM   My first canoe was called Dam Buster. It was a big old aluminum canoe that we took everywhere, even over water controlled devises or so called dams. My second canoe was named Weedy. I was learning to be a stern paddler and we always ended up in the weeds. My friend called started calling her Weed Wacker or Weedy for short. It was a Ranger canoe, big beautiful and red in color.
Humdinger	03/27/2010 11:57PM   My Grumman is "12" because he has a great big "12" spray painted on the side from the boy scout camp I bought him from. The Penobscot is "penobscot" if I'm feeling english snobby, "Penney" if I am feeling any love for her, and finally the "green monster" if we're bashing beaver dams. The spirit 2 hasn't earned a name yet.
1stSatInMay	03/27/2010 02:10PM   I've come up with names for several boats, particularly on long portages before I got smart and bought Kevlar. Also, names for some that we took on BW trips w/o trying them out before hand.
Chilly	03/27/2010 03:37PM   My fishing boat is named: "The Sieve" My john boat is named: "Johnny Sieve" My heavy canoe is called: "The Old Bull" "The Sieve" is the only boat that has the letters on both sides explaining its name though.
snakecharmer	03/27/2010 04:31PM   "Suck My Wake"
TuscaroraBorealis	03/27/2010 04:33PM   quote snakecharmer: ""Suck My Wake""That's just TOO much boat! LOL LOVE that show too!
YaMarVa	03/27/2010 05:27PM   My MN2 has an Edward Abbey inspired name 'Fort Llatikcuf'
Red Solo	03/28/2010 07:00AM   My 13 year old son and I made our first BW trip in 2000 in our brand new Spirit 2 down the Isabella to Bald Eagle. My son named that canoe "Isabella". My Prism is simple "the Prism".
520eek	03/27/2010 11:21PM   I have a 14' old town day tripper (70's vintage) , blue with lots of dust and lots of memories..... any suggestions??
TuscaroraBorealis	07/18/2011 08:24PM   another similar thread and another
WhiteWolf	07/19/2011 02:36AM   my penobscot with a wolf on the either side of the bow is called the whitewolf. my buddies 1969 yellow alumacraft is correctly called the "tuna" or "yellowfin".
ozarkpaddler	07/19/2011 06:13AM   The boats I've really liked. First canoe, a 17' aluminum Lowe was called "The Pig," "Shannon" was my second, named it after the county in MO where it was usually paddled and the green color. Over the years, I've named a couple more of those I had for a long time and was enamored with; 'Ol Blue, my Wenonah Adirondack and "Sandy," my Mad River Revelation. I think "Black Pearl" suits that beauty of yours just right!TW
Basspro69	07/19/2011 08:03AM   quote oldgentleman: "My son Joshua named his Penobscot "Sorrow", after the poem: I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chatted all the way; But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow, And ne’er a word said she; But, oh! The things I learned from her, When sorrow walked with me. -Robert Browning Hamilton" Love that quote
SevenofNine	07/19/2011 08:32AM   quote bojibob: "I call mine "Rented"" Love it!
Chilly	03/27/2010 11:47PM   With my odd sense of humor: Old Town could mean Jerusalem and day tripper could equal a beetles song from the 70's so I'd call it "The Jerusalem Beetle".
Basspro69	03/28/2010 02:42PM   All of my Canoes except my very first one are named (my buddies,) or Hungry jack :-)
PWAXON	03/28/2010 03:01PM   I named mine "Moose II" seeing that is is yellow I was tempted to replace the we no nah on the side to Ba an nah
woodcanoe	03/28/2010 03:44PM   The Grumman I grew up with was called the 'lead sled' due to it's horrible lines and weight. Later, we started calling it the P.O.S Tom