Worst boat names

[Jerra]

2 minutes ago, bramley said:

I knew, knew it would be Isis as i opened this thread, we saw her up the cut a few weeks ago and then again in our home marina (gayton marina) when we mored up for the first time. 

 

I have no idea why you would call a boat such a thing, we did again see her today. 

 

 

Because Isis was an Egyptian Goddess known (by the early Egyptians obviously) for protecting children, healing the sick and was the Goddess of life.

 

Seems like a reasonable name for a boat to me.

[bramley]

the boat looks rather fresh... i certainly wouldnt be seen crusing in it i am afraid 

[dor]

11 minutes ago, bramley said:

I knew, knew it would be Isis as i opened this thread, we saw her up the cut a few weeks ago and then again in our home marina (gayton marina) when we mored up for the first time. 

 

I have no idea why you would call a boat such a thing, we did again see her today. 

 

 

When I called my previous boat ‘Isis” my income was largely derived from the ruminant livestock industry. Isis was, amongst other things, the Egyptian god of agriculture, and with the country in the grip of the largest foot and mouth epidemic for decades, I reckoned it needed all the help it could get.

things were different in 2001;  the past is a different country.

[Dyertribe]

13 hours ago, bramley said:

I knew, knew it would be Isis as i opened this thread, we saw her up the cut a few weeks ago and then again in our home marina (gayton marina) when we mored up for the first time. 

 

I have no idea why you would call a boat such a thing, we did again see her today. 

 

 

It’ll be because it was the name of a river and an egyptian god long before  a bunch of misguided fanatics appropriated it. 

We hired a 4 berth boat from Lower Heyford in about 1974 with the same name. 

[MtB]

15 hours ago, bramley said:

I have no idea why you would call a boat such a thing

 

It is the correct name for the River Thames above Oxford. 

 

I suspect you might be quite young to not remember the time when "Isis" was a rather nice name, widely used for all manner of things incluing boats. 

 

 

[system 4-50]

I am going to start a violent revolutionary group and call it "Kingfisher".  I expect all boats by that name to change within 24 hours.  Also references to "King" and "Fisher" will be anathema and monitored by GCHQ.

[Sea Dog]

7 hours ago, Dyertribe said:

...long before  a bunch of misguided fanatics appropriated it. 

"Islamic State In Syria" is rather more likely to have been applied to them by others rather than taken for themselves so, whilst there is little for which they might be forgiven, misappropriation of the name of the Upper Thames might make the list.

[Jen-in-Wellies]

5 hours ago, system 4-50 said:

I am going to start a violent revolutionary group and call it "Kingfisher".  I expect all boats by that name to change within 24 hours.  Also references to "King" and "Fisher" will be anathema and monitored by GCHQ.

Too late! Kanal INsurgency Group For Inducing Socialist Heroic English Revolution.

All Kingfisher boat owners are members. Just so you know.

 

Jen

Edited September 8, 2019 by Jen-in-Wellies

[system 4-50]

19 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

Too late! Kanal INsurgency Group For Inducing Socialist Heroic English Revolution.

All Kingfisher boat owners are members. Just so you know.

 

Jen

Damn.  My revolution is on hold - until I find another name (or October 31st).

[Jen-in-Wellies]

24 minutes ago, system 4-50 said:

Damn.  My revolution is on hold - until I find another name (or October 31st).

Marxist European AND English Revolutionaries?

[Captain Pegg]

1 hour ago, Sea Dog said:

"Islamic State In Syria" is rather more likely to have been applied to them by others rather than taken for themselves so, whilst there is little for which they might be forgiven, misappropriation of the name of the Upper Thames might make the list.

Quite. I didn’t really even see the issue when this thread first appeared until the link was pointed out. It would surely take a pretty limited view of history, geography and language to be bothered by a boat called Isis.

 

One day I intend to visit my cousin in Swastika, Ontario. Thankfully when the local authorities held a consultation regarding the name they decided that as it pre-dated the Nazis they weren’t going to let Mr Hitler misappropriate their name and it’s true origin. Good on them.

 

JP

[Jerra]

4 minutes ago, Captain Pegg said:

Quite. I didn’t really even see the issue when this thread first appeared until the link was pointed out. It would surely take a pretty limited view of history, geography and language to be bothered by a boat called Isis.

 

One day I intend to visit my cousin in Swastika, Ontario. Thankfully when the local authorities held a consultation regarding the name they decided that as it pre-dated the Nazis they weren’t going to let Mr Hitler misappropriate their name and it’s true origin. Good on them.

 

JP

Predated them by several thousand years its origins are religious and go back to ancient times probably as long ago as Isis.   Until the 1930s it was a good luck symbol in the western regions.

[ditchcrawler]

More pleasant things.

[Captain Pegg]

2 minutes ago, Jerra said:

Predated them by several thousand years its origins are religious and go back to ancient times probably as long ago as Isis.   Until the 1930s it was a good luck symbol in the western regions.

I believe so although I actually meant the town predated them albeit only by about 25 years. It was named after the local mine  so a link to luck - in terms of productivity and welfare - would be appropriate.

 

JP

[dor]

21 hours ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

 

I suspect you might be quite young to not remember the time when "Isis" was a rather nice name, widely used for all manner of things incluing boats. 

 

 

A few years ago M&S had a range of mens’ toiletries call ‘Isis”.  They discontinued them quite soon for some reason.

[Athy]

21 hours ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

It is the correct name for the River Thames above Oxford. 

 

I suspect you might be quite young to not remember the time when "Isis" was a rather nice name, widely used for all manner of things incluing boats. 

 

 

....including a Morris car, I seem to remember, a suitable name considering that Morrises were built in the Oxford area.

When I hear or see the name "Isis" I think of the river, not of any reprehensible organisation.

 

Isn't Oxford University's second-team rowing boat called Isis? I think that, before the main boat race, it competes against its Cantab equivalent which is called Goldie.

[Arthur Marshall]

The tune in the book that followed the one I decided to use was "Lady Windermere's Dump". My boat painter said it had too many letters... 

[bizzard]

We had a brown Springer boat here called Wensleydale Heffer. The pevious owner was a butcher it had a big cow painted on both sides.

[rusty69]

22 minutes ago, bizzard said:

We had a brown Springer boat here called Wensleydale Heffer. The pevious owner was a butcher it had a big cow painted on both sides.

That ended up at Cowroast

[bizzard]

54 minutes ago, rusty69 said:

That ended up at Cowroast

No, but oddly enough it came from there.

[ditchcrawler]

I have just seen the best name for a boat and the answer to a happy marriage 

[Richard10002]

On 07/09/2019 at 21:08, Jerra said:

Because Isis was an Egyptian Goddess known (by the early Egyptians obviously) for protecting children, healing the sick and was the Goddess of life.

 

Seems like a reasonable name for a boat to me.

Bit like the river in Oxford, and the boat race team. I thing The ISIS in the Middle East came a bit later than either of the above, along with many of their name sakes.

 

I liked the Meme of Mrs Thatcher where she is depicted as saying something like:

 

"If ISIS had been around in my time, they would pretty soon have been WAS WAS "

[captain flint]

The worst name I've seen, so, so bad it's almost good, it's Canality J'aime

 

Hard to think of anything more contrived, and the fact it should be Canality Je t'aime - but then nobody would get the calamity Jane reference - makes it even more heroically bad, like a desperate rhyme!

 

Apologies if the owners are on here, but I'm kind of fond of it in its way, the canal would be poorer for its absence. 

 

I saw another name that made me laugh, but which I like, on a very traditional looking old working boat, painted a sobre dark green, with carriage lines, and an old school, curved, painted name, that on closer inspection reads, 'Wuff Bark Donkey'. 

 

[The Welsh Cruiser]

Not a name but I went past a cruiser the other day that had male and female puppets, next to each other, hanging from their necks in the window. Looked quite realistic, their necks were bent, and the rope looked to have been carefully made into hangman's knots. 

[dor]

Recently saw 'Rosé and Gin'  which took me a minute or two to click.