Boat names suggestions please!?

Question

I just bought a boat (just like this onehttp://www.catboats.org/images/c4s_images/c4s_140/140-14-Flannery.JPG but bigger)

Do you have any names idea?

Plus how I can travel with this boat and a 1.5 months old newborn safely?

Answer 1

Baby on board

As for baby help, I really don't know how to travel by boat with or without a baby!  Good luck...I bet you can come up with a name yourself...what is the feeling you associate with your boat?

Answer 2

you should  name it the love boat lol

or your (last name) boat

and i d k if you should travel with the baby it could get seasick

you can never be too careful

Answer 3

I wil name my  boat Hat trick - because i play hockey

Answer 4

"How can I travel with this boat and a 1.5 month old newborn safely?"

Now this is a great-great question!

More people should be asking it!

Simply put: the law says:

"EVERYBODY MUST HAVE A PFD.... If an infant is onboard a boat, there must be an infant Type II personal flotation device (PFD) available for that infant."

The Coast Guard, of course, recommends that the infant wear the PFD at all time while onboard the boat. But there are no USCG requirements for infant seating on any boats.

However... I am going to tell you from personal experience... you will not be able to find a PFD to fit an infant that young or that little...

I am (and have been for 30 + years) a licensed USCG Captain... All my kids were practically raised on one boat or another...

So here is a suggestion...

Even though your infant "must" have a PFD (and in most states "must be wearing it"... if the infant is too small the PFD will NOT save its life.  So... Keep the kid on a safety harness with a life-line.

When my kids were small, they lived on the boat with a safety harness and lifeline "always" attached. In fact, (now adults) they get a kick out of telling people they thought every kid just had long tails until they started going to school... lol

With our kids, we never took the harness off... if we were inside the cabin... the kid was attached to the line in the cabin - which would let him move freely all around the cabin and even about ten feet out the cabin door - but no further... They could crawl or walk all around the deck - but they were unable to get close enough to the deck rails to fall overboard....



A safety harness (in my opinion) as well as a PFD for smaller kids should both be required.

So please... KEEP THE KID ON A LIFELINE... even when, and especially when, you are on deck and the kid is in your arms...

for more information on "boating with infants" You should check out this Coast Guard link:

http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-m/mse4/pfdchild...

PS...

As for names... I don't use it, in fact, I have never seen it on any vessel... I picked the name up out of a 1800's book about Whaling Ships - on which the sailors referred to the path  from Nantucket to Cape Horn... as the  "Whale Road"... I think it would make a great boat name...

Happy & Safe Boating!

Answer 5

Sight to Sea

Come Aboard (But the other spelling, it won't let me do it here)

Suck My Wake

(all spellings are supposed to be that way)

Do a play on words. It's a lot more fun than: Grandpa's Barge

Answer 6

The boat in the picture is one beautiful Cat! Is your new one as nice?

If your new boat is as classic a vessel is the pic. I would go a little traditional. names like "Wet Dream" or "Blow Me" just aren't going to fit.

There are some great books about cruising with babies and kid's. It's not really that difficult but the various explanations would take awhile. Here's is that best place to get books and nautical gifts I have found online.

http://www.seabreezenauticalbooks.com

I know they have books about sailing with kids.

Good Luck

Answer 7

my 2 neighbors who are mexican and my self who is irish have a boat name "two spics and a mic"

Answer 8

Titanic II

Poseidon II (Or p**p-Side-Down)

Lusitania II

Sale Boat (yes, the "incorrect" spelling is on purpose")

Be creative. Name it whatever gives it meaning to you.

Answer 9

as she is a sailboat there's a preference on my part for "Mariah" (as in ...'they call the wind Mariah")

Course with what we power boaters are paying for fuel you can slap us in the face with "Not Fuelish"

But if you really want to see what kind of names are out there visit the web site below that now has over 14,000 boat names listed. It might help you come up with your own play on words.

As for the baby...you can travel safely with the child aboard as long as you have all of the required/approved safety gear. As to how...wait for calm seas is my first thought but I'm deferring to those who have recently experienced doing such.

Answer 10

you need to fit the name in with your life style, or incorporate it with your last name

ex on the rocks( has 2 meanings)

my last name is heller and ive named my boats

heller highwater and heller heaven. very cool 2 meanings and both nautical.

as for the little one id start with a good pfd, and dont cheese out on the price, if it has to work once its paid for it self. also id go on very short trips, if the kiddo gets sick its a short trip back/. when i was a baby my parents took me out all the time , and rocking of the ocean put me right to sleep, and im pretty sure thats how my brother was concieved!

good luck!