Some Boat Humour

I live on the west coast and one of the many things I love about living in a fishing town is looking (and laughing) at the names people give their boats. Some are named after wives or girlfriends, or have mundane names such as " Dreamer", but most people put a lot of thought into what to name their boat. How do they come up with some of the clever names I see sometimes?

Believe it or not...there are webpages devoted to clever boat names.
They list the names provided by category: clever, funny, common, cool, famous, pirate, movie, fishing, sail, and more. Have a look:

Clever ones:
Sea - esta
Fah - Get - A - Boat- -It
Break - In - Wind
E - Fishin - C

Funny ones:
Ship - Faced
Litle - Buoy - Blew

For sailboats:
Secondwind
El Viento
Zephyr

Famous ones:
The African Queen
Poseidon
The Black Pearl

It's all in a name.

But some of the best and most hilarious ones I've seen were e-mailed to me by a friend today, and became my muse for this diary, so over the orange hawser you go to see some awesome pics of delightful and funny boat names.

The first one just a little buoyish

This one just moored me:

This one seized my imagination:

This one made me want to cave:

I found this one a little soupy:

This guy freely admits to it:

This guy seems to have commitment issues:

Oooo..a navy boat:

The squabbling siblings:

The definition of intransigence:

And it has a poop deck, too:

An old salty dog:

Oh..a punny one:

And finally...fish or cut bait: