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50k Boat Names
- mellosouls 3mo agoDisappointed to see no mention of Boaty McBoatface. Can't be that often boat naming becomes headlines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface
- rob74 3mo agoProbably because the article only uses data from the US, so it would be a bit strange if it included the name of a British AUV. Or are you wondering why no one in the US liked that story enough to name their own boat Boaty McBoatface? There is a Boaty Boat, so that's something...
- clort 3mo agoTFA said the names were taken from published AIS data, so perhaps Boaty has not shown up on USA AIS receivers as yet. Since IIRC it is an AUV thats not surprising I wonder if it even has an AIS transmitter. The ship they were asking for names for was actually named Sir David Attenborough in the end.
- happyopossum 3mo agoAnyone can name their boat Boaty McBoatface - i'm shocked there aren't dozens of them...
- svdr 3mo agoAlso never forget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface
- mellosouls 3mo agoSnap!
- adolph 3mo agoI found "Change Order" a pleasure craft out of Alabama. https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/sd97i4/read_dinghy_name_first_if_you_are_in_construction/ https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/sd97i4/read_dinghy_n... It'd be awesome if there was enough metadata to link across to an AIS aggregator/map like https://www.marinetraffic.com/ https://www.marinetraffic.com/
- detourdog 3mo agoI don't understand. Marine Traffic is almost identical but has the advantage for displaying the location of the boat.
- amelius 3mo agoI came here to say that it's apparently not in the set.
- Aeroi 3mo agolove this, i'm a boat captain and collect images of terrible boat names on my phone. people are insane, always baffles me what they will name a boat.
- Uncle_Brumpus 3mo agoI think the 2 funniest I found here are "TT Firebird Ribeye" which just sounds like an incredibly specific steakhouse menu item, and "Privacy II", which I just think is a bit on the funny-ironic side that we're all now looking at their vessel data and violating their privacy.
- Rebelgecko 3mo agoIt should be illegal to leave a tantalizing comment like that without giving some examples :)
- bergie 3mo agoMy favorite so far was a motorboat named "Maday". Imagine hailing them on VHF...
- hbs18 3mo agoCan't believe there's only one Stugots
- BigTuna 3mo agoI've always thought Unsinkable II would be a good boat name
- stinkbeetle 3mo agoPeople think lots of things are good boat names. There's no reason there couldn't have more than one Unsinkable that hadn't sunk, and most boats aren't retired by sinking, so Unsinkable II would fit right in.
- gilleain 3mo agoWhat about "Really Actually Unsinkable 9"?
- sorokod 3mo agoFollowing in the footsteps of "The Hand of God 137"
- arethuza 3mo agoIf I buy a yacht I'd name it "The Ends of Invention" - have been keeping that name handy for almost 40 years since I read CP in a oner in May 1988.
- rrr_oh_man 3mo agoYou're missing the "You're absolutely right" prefix
- jollyllama 3mo agoParent reply is actually way funnier and more original than the GP, which has already been repeated by two other posters.
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- kmoser 3mo ago
- reactordev 3mo agoI bought a sailboat in 2022 and sailed all over the caribbean from florida from 2022-2025. I came across a lot of funny boat names. My boat was not among them sadly as I was serious about mine. Fishizzle, Boat Float, Unsinkable II, Knot for Sail, etc.
- JKCalhoun 3mo agoMoney Pit has stuck with me.
- brk 3mo agoIt had my boat name, which so far I haven't seen duplicated, and isn't particularly specific to anything that would preclude someone else from using it.
- detourdog 3mo agoI'm surprised my boat is the only in one in AIS also.
- lewispb 3mo agoMy boat's called Floating Point :)
- victorbjorklund 3mo agoEpic name
- JKCalhoun 3mo agoBetter than Overflow.
- lossyalgo 3mo agoIf I had a boat I would totally steal that (and wait for other nerds to strike up conversations).
- macintux 3mo agoIf you really want to attract the hard-core nerds, name it "IEEE 754" instead.
- lossyalgo 3mo agohaha very cute! Got me thinking, IP69K might also be fun, albeit slightly less nerdy.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3mo agoSaw a car once near my house with the license plate "4745454B". I was slightly uncomfortable in realizing that I immediately knew what it meant.
- throwup238 3mo agoI’ve always been impartial to Sea++
- detourdog 3mo agoI feel I like I have seen that name. I know I have seen puns on C but can't remember the specifics. May have been C-Shell.
- xnorswap 3mo agoThe "Boat ownership by income" is interesting, although easy to misread at a glance. 7% of boat owners earning under $25k is of course very different from 7% of people earning under $25k owning a boat. I'd love to see an actual chart of boat ownership at income levels, it would read quite differently I'm sure.
- umeshunni 3mo agoThe other challenge I assume is that many boat owners are retired and presumably have little or no taxable income
- nemomarx 3mo agoIs there no way to measure that? I'm wondering how they pay for maintenance on the fixed income. Could be an interesting thing to analyze at least, maybe it depends on if you need to winter it...
- happyopossum 3mo ago"no taxable income" != "fixed income" 401Ks, IRAs, and a few other "retirement fund" options give you the option to access either your principal or investment earnings tax-free depending how they were set up.
- foolfoolz 3mo agoi don’t think this changes much. ownership is most common for the middle class. which makes perfect sense. - if you’re rich you don’t need to own a boat, you can spend more per day to rent if you want to use one. - the cost optimization of owning makes each day using it cheaper, even if it takes more time or space to store it. so those with less money that want to use a boat will buy it for example renting a boat all day for use on lake tahoe might run you $2,000 to rent. it might cost you $300 in gas if you own the boat. you can tell yourself youre a boat owner now and get 10 days on the lake each year for $3,000 instead of $20,000
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- mh2266 3mo agoBust Out Another Thousand
- rob74 3mo agoI can't help but think this article could have used some more polishing. The stats say that there are 101 boats named "Freedom", but if you enter "Freedom" in the search, it shows 48 boats with names including "Freedom", of which however only one is called just "Freedom". That doesn't really add up?! Also, clicking "Movie/TV" yields a paltry 22 boats, which I think is far too few. E.g. the boat called "USS Enterprise" isn't included. Ok, it could be named after the 1958 aircraft carrier, but I would say the odds are far greater that it was named after the Starfleet ships. Then again, I can understand why "Starlight Express" is included under "Music", but why also all other boats with names containing the word "Starlight"?!
- squigz 3mo agoErr, the Enterprise has been a ship name for a few hundred years, quite a bit before Star Trek was ever conceived. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise
- arethuza 3mo agoAmusing that the page for ships called HMS Enterprise linked to from the USS Enterprise page points out that the name came originally from the French! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Enterprise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Enterprise
- squigz 3mo agoOh interesting, I didn't know that. It's an even older name than I thought!
- Gravityloss 3mo agoAnd the actual word is French too...
- rob74 3mo ago...although the French spell it with an extra "r". And they had more ships that were named Entreprenant(e) (Enterprising) than Entreprise...
- zX41ZdbW 3mo agoIf you are interested in the AIS (ship telemetry) data, my team has created a visualization project: https://adsb.exposed/?dataset=Ships&zoom=5&lat=52.3890&lng=4.9219&query=f032b52a954b7afc2438a87841627466 https://adsb.exposed/?dataset=Ships&zoom=5&lat=52.3890&lng=4...
- Skidaddle 3mo agoIt really needs a picture of each boat!
- detourdog 3mo agoMarinetraffic.com lets people upload pictures of the boat.
- wxw 3mo agoThe top 3 names being > Freedom > Liberty > Serenity Reads like a state motto
- warmwaffles 3mo agoSomeone needs to take "Unsinkable II"
- mrtimo 3mo agoThe article mentions a dataset of names given to people in the USA. This is a fun name explorer WASM based on that data. 811 people in the USA have named their baby 'Diesel': https://docs.malloydata.dev/malloyyo-babynames/name_explorer.html?%24NAME=Diesel https://docs.malloydata.dev/malloyyo-babynames/name_explorer...
- tgtweak 3mo agoIt's like vanity license plates but with even less constraints... "Unsinkable II".
- dvh 3mo agoI'm on mobile and I can't figure out how to search.
- macintux 3mo agoThe categorization could use some work. "Comanche" shows up under mythology, for example.
- CSMastermind 3mo agoThis reminds me of a girl I knew in college who worked as a contracter for a book publisher. I was surprised to learn that one of the most common types of books people submitted were dairies of their sailing. Like, "we sailed to this island and there was bad weather then we sailed to this other island". Apparently they'd get a manuscript like this once a week or something. Not sure what the market is like for books like that since I don't think I've ever seen one in a book store.
- gmiller123456 3mo agoOcean sailing leaves a lot of free time. Also the people who can afford to do it have a lot of free time. So I don't find it that surprising.
- detourdog 3mo agoSailing can be such a transformative experience I'm not surprised many people write books of the experience. My guess is most people's experience is that interesting to others.
- clort 3mo agoThey exist, but generally for more significant voyaging. For example - Joshua Slocum - Sailing Alone Around The World (1900) - H.W.Tilman - Mishief Among The Penguins (1961) - Sir Alec Rose - My Lively Lady (1968) - Annie Hill - Voyaging on a Small Income (1993) at least are on my bookshelf
- stockresearcher 3mo agoThe ultimate boat-log-as-a-book has to be Two Years Before the Mast, published in 1840. It has some great descriptions of the California coast, and does a pretty decent job of giving you an idea of why Los Angeles became the biggest city despite having the worst natural harbor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Years_Before_the_Mast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Years_Before_the_Mast
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- buildsjets 3mo agoNaming things is hard, it's best to pick a theme and stick with it. A Columbo family mafioso I grew up near used to be in a never-ending competition with the Sultan of Brunei and the Aga Khan over who owned the worlds fastest megayacht. He named his megayachts after James Bond movies: For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, Moonraker, Casino Royale, Skyfall, and Diamnonds are Forever. https://www.boatinternational.com/luxury-yacht-life/owners-experiences/james-bond-boats--27897 https://www.boatinternational.com/luxury-yacht-life/owners-e... https://www.cosanostranews.com/2012/03/crime-really-does-pay-for-some.html https://www.cosanostranews.com/2012/03/crime-really-does-pay...
- detourdog 3mo agoI have seen at least one super yacht named for a Bond film.
- TheMagicHorsey 3mo agoReminds me of the ship names in the Culture novels by Iain M Banks.
- DonHopkins 3mo agoWikipedia deleted the page with a list of them, but the fans took up the challenge: https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_spacecraft https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_spacecraft
- bmsleight_ 3mo agoOnly one Boaty Boat, lacking the McBoatyFace.
- wowczarek 3mo agoAll I know is that when I finally buy that Zodiac RIB, I'm naming it SANGAMON'S PRINCIPLE.
- bilsbie 3mo agoI probably missed it but can you download all the names? I want to run it through microgpt and see what it comes up with.
- ourmandave 3mo agoThe Ocean Trader comes up, but it's not the same specs as the MV one. Which is special forces support ship hiding in plain sight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Ocean_Trader https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Ocean_Trader
- daviesiesies 3mo agoI once saw a boat called the Betty Swollocks. It made me laugh.
- lacoolj 3mo agoIt's at the point I can tell, not only was AI used for this (cool, not a big deal, I use it too!) But I can tell Gemini was used here. How can I tell? Cuz the last thing it designed for me used the exact same fonts, color tones, border sizes and spacing for buttons. Maybe Gemini needs a higher default temperature. Anyways, cool data gathered here tho! Thanks for sharing
- georgel 3mo agoI had these exact buttons come from DeepSeek for a demo landing page, it went down a path it called “memphis design”.
- olibaw 3mo agoHow is there not one boat named "Sunk Cost"...
- eschneider 3mo agoIt looks bad on the insurance paperwork.
- detourdog 3mo agoThat is a good name.
- pimlottc 3mo agoAny particular reason that “Andiamo” is so popular? It’s apparently Italian for “let’s go” but why is in the top 10? Is there some reference I’m missing?
- HoldOnAMinute 3mo agoLooked for several of my favorites and didn't see them. No mention of Choppin' Broccoli which can be found in the Small Craft Harbor in San Francisco
- detourdog 3mo agoI think the source is AIS which requires paperwork and an FCC issued license to register a name. My boat is there.
- abruzzi 3mo agoMy boat (a small 25ft sail boat) was named "Zesty Enterprise", since all the best movie lines come from The Big Lebowski.
- mrwaffle 3mo agoCool project, you can also view some of the real ship names on https://neon.boats https://neon.boats and see their relative ocean swell.
- aleksiy123 3mo agoSome of these are really lacking in gravitas.
- ButlerianJihad 3mo agoWould you venture to say that there is a shortfall of it?
- benmorris 3mo agoThat's the public data. I can tell you I've worked in this industry for 20+ years and run probably one of the biggest sites in this space selling boat graphics. The most popular name is actually "Aquaholic" ;-)
- Doctor_Fegg 3mo agoI remember seeing a river cruiser called "Sir Osis of the River"
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- Wistar 3mo agoIn the 1980s, a Seattle-area Chinese restaurant owner had a sailboat named Won Ton Sloop. (Or so I was told as I never saw the boat myself)
- segfault99 3mo agoDisappointed that it's missing name of a yacht or catamaran I once saw on trailer parked by roadside in 1980s Queensland: Blue E. Zarzoff
- thih9 3mo agoHow did nobody mention “PITIPIWPIW WIW WIW” yet? There is a container ship with a name that is onomatopoeia for engine sounds. https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/246124000 https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/246124000
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- shaftway 3mo agoMy parents had a sailboat, and just walking around the marina there were a ton of clever names. My favorites were: - Ménage à cinq - Never Again II
- heyaco 3mo agono endurance? fags