Boat names with a musical connection.

[Peter Reed]

According to Jim Shead there about a dozen boats called Moondance. (Van Morrison)

[Suzie_q]

There's a chicken and egg situation here, as like ourselves many owners may not know the connection.

 

Have seen a "Ghost Town" (Specials or Cheap Trick) and a "How Long!" (One hit wonder Ace) but doubt very much if there was a musical connection.

[RLWP]

There's a chicken and egg situation here, as like ourselves many owners may not know the connection.

 

Have seen a "Ghost Town" (Specials or Cheap Trick) and a "How Long!" (One hit wonder Ace) but doubt very much if there was a musical connection.

 

Quite. For instance, Apache and Memphis are good, strong names in their own right and will have been on boats for many, many decades before the gramophone was invented

 

Richard

[Athy]

Quite so - I did mention that although the boat names I listed had a musical connection they may not have been inspired by music or records.

That said, although 'How Long' (also a Pointer Sisters hit incidentally) may well simply refer to the length of a narrowboat, it's hard to see what the origin of 'Ghost Town' might be, apart from the Specials' song.

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[RLWP]

Many ghost towns in American mining areas

 

Richard

[The Toad in the Hole]

I bought mine called Xanadu, I'm guessing that it wasn't named for the seminal Rush album.

 

Anyone at the NEC a fortnight ago? Bloomin' awesome!

Idiot boy re-reads his own post. Of course the album is Farewell to Kings, Xanadu is a track on the album

[Biggles]

Avalon.

[RLWP]

Avalon.

 

Voyage of King Arthur and Morgan Le Fay to the Isle of Avalon 1888

 

 

Good boat name that, historical, mystical and water associations

 

Richard

 

MORE: This thread is a bit like CANOE - the Campaign to Associate a Naval Origin for Everything.

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[Athy]

Many ghost towns in American mining areas

 

Richard

No doubt - but who would want to name their boat after one? I haven't yet heard of a boat called Abandoned Industrial Estate either.

 

(Thinks: there was an LP called 'Abandoned Luncheonette', some US soft-rock band I think, but has anyone called their boat by that name? )

Many ghost towns in American mining areas

 

Richard

No doubt - but who would want to name their boat after one? I haven't yet heard of a baot called Abandoned Industrial Estate either.

 

(Thinks: there was an LP called 'Abandoned Luncheonette', some US soft-rock band I think, but has anyone called their boat by that name? )

Edited June 10, 2013 by Athy

[Suzie_q]

No doubt - but who would want to name their boat after one? I haven't yet heard of a boat called Abandoned Industrial Estate either.

 

(Thinks: there was an LP called 'Abandoned Luncheonette', some US soft-rock band I think, but has anyone called their boat by that name? )

 

 

Can't comment on why the boat was called Ghost Town, but I was thinking more likely it was named after a literary reference rather than the song.

 

But that leads to the debate as to song titles taken from books. Now that is a long list.........

[Athy]

 

Can't comment on why the boat was called Ghost Town, but I was thinking more likely it was named after a literary reference rather than the song.

 

But that leads to the debate as to song titles taken from books. Now that is a long list.........

Books? What the Dickens do you mean?

Well, there's a Little Dorrit and a brace of Pickwicks for starters....

[Biggles]

 

 

 

Good boat name that, historical, mystical and water associations

 

Richard

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Thanks. Mrs Biggles chose it for this reason. There is a darker meaning too but can't remember it now.

[steven wilkinson]

Does 'Minuet' count?

[frahkn]

My 'new' boat is named for a Norse goddess - Gefion - but I plan to change this to 'Twisted Reach' eventuallly.

 

If I can afford the signwriting of course!

[Poster girl]

First boat we hired Ruby Tuesday from Claymoore Narrowboats, lovely!