Re: Boat names.
I called one of them "Pacific Star" just because it sounded good and I had (and still do) a heavy dose of love and starry eyes for the older West coast wooden X fishing boats, and I wanted to name it something that was well known and trusted.
Another was named "Sound Trader", also an X fishing vessel, because I traded my "Ford pickemup" for that one and it ended up being a "sound trade" (the boat being "the item traded" became "Trader" and then "Sound Trader" because I lived near a "sound" (Quatsino Sound, BC.) This was not wholly politically correct because the "chuck" I lived on was a branch off of Quatsino sound named "Neurotsos inlet". But you couldn't call a poor boat that, it would sink!
A few more down the line I ended up with "Jerilyn", a beautiful 1937 (Algonac Michigan built) 46 foot (42 feet and four more for the anchor plank and swim deck) Chris' Tricabin that was already named after the Captains daughter, but I didn't want to change it out of respect for the old gentleman and a trace of superstition. (and some hope for the daughter, but never did meet her.
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That's the boat I ended up living on for three years and miss quite often.
Then I brought home a boat I never even got in the water that was named "Symanuqtuq" meaning "Peaceful" in Innuit (Eskimo) I thought it was a wondeful name, but then never got to use it as I sold it to a buddy in need of a serious fix as his own boat had foundered.
Finally, another ol' girl I dragged home just a while ago, an older motorized floating fiberglass boat anchor but with at least SOME character
, and because she's just simply a '70-ish brown colored hull with a cuddly cabin, and adding the fact that I like old civil war and pre-civil war shooting irons, she's called "Brown Bess!"
That's a good proud name and served quite a few people very well. (as this ol'girl has.) And I hope she'll do the same for me.
After I picked the name, it became more and more suited to the boat so I'm keeping it!
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
PH.
