Gee Eric, what a tempting offer, but I am afraid the dog would pack her bags and leave if another cat comes in this house. Mans best friend and all....
I have one half built, forms for 2 more after that, and am looking at plans for another. Hahahaha, I'm obsessed, although my wife says I am anal. Besides, my yak trailer holds 8 and it seems a shame not to fill it.
Kev
Announcing that Kev’s "Got to fill the 8-yak trailer" is a 2009 Academy Award candidate in the "Best Excuse for Ordering another Yak" category.
Holy Cats, Kayak-Kev! If I'm counting correctly, this sounds like you're on your way to 9? So I think the trailer should be named, "Eight of Nine". Then when you get to 10, you can X out the "Nine" and write in "Ten", etc....
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Ogata (eric)
Having been slightly – but I hope respectfully – scornful of Those Who Would Name Their Craft made me recall the comments of my mate who introduced me to this pastime. Like stout Cortez, he studied the Pacific here on our doorstep, and the vast expanse of Bay we paddle on, separated from the ocean only by a few sand islands, saying “when I’m out there it feels like I’m sitting on a toothpick”. I could instantly visualise where he was coming from – toothpick and sea-kayak alike are wooden objects vastly longer than their width or circumference, with very sharp pointy ends. From the air, a paddler would certainly look like he was on a toothpick! So I may informally refer to my craft as ‘the toothpick’, but that’s about as far as it will go! Cheers to all… Lol from Oz
I have two Kayaks, Mine is named Susie Q for the song and the time I met my wife who by some peculiar hapenstance happens to be named Susie. Hers is wave dancer. She is never happier than when dancing, rock, folk, modern, tribal belly dance or in the kayak.
Now if we could just develop the skills to realy dance over those waves instead of paddle through them.
Maybe I need to build a petral or a shearwater (currently a Chessie light 16 and 17)
I think I can fit 3 or 4 on top of the van.
Sorry this took so long folks, but I just learned how to upload a photo here and I wanted to show y'all my Skerry with her name, despite that some of yy'alls think it's silly. Now go back and read my origina post! best, bob h
http://picasaweb.google.com/WagPondBob/NewportRISkerryBuild?authkey=LSOrIa9fRvo#
I've four boats.
The first is a sharpie similar to a John's Sharpie, but built to a modified Reuel Parker design, and modeled on the sharpies used on the Chesapeake over a centruy ago. Bay watermen generally name their boats after significant women in their lives, using either the "Miss [nickname]" or "[given name, last initial]" format, so I named mine after my daughter; it proudly carries "Catherine C" on its transom.
Sea kayaks remind me of shore birds, scooting along the beach dancing in and out of the surf, so I asked my daughter what her favorite shorebird was. As a result, the Chesapeake 14 I built for her is the "Dunlin." My favorite shorebird, on the other hand, is a sanderling, so that's the name of my LT17. The fourth boat is a Folbot Cooper, but as I didn't build it, it languishes under a rather pedestrian moniker -- simply "the Cooper" or sometimes "the Folder."
If I ever build a bigger boat, big enough to cruise for some time and maybe even go offshore, it will be the "Ojo de Agua" or "eye of the water," named after my parents' favorite fountain in San Jose, Costa Rica, near which they lived back in the late '40s. I've long thought that would be a perfect name for a sail boat.
As a signpainter who has painted a lot of names on boats on the upper Chesapeake I have seen some really strange ones, but they all paid the same.
Someone mentioned the importance of giving a cat the proper name. We have a cat named Hobie Cat. Hobie sounded better than naming it after our Beetle Cat!
None of my kayaks have names (other than Shearwater, Pachena and Tampico) and that's the way it will stay. My first stitch and glue boat was a Bolger Cartopper that I built on the deck of my condo 16 years ago. My girlfriend at the time was a lovely young Portugese immigrant named Rose who kept me supplied with mixed epoxy as I put the boat together. So that boat became "Rosebud."
LOL, Rosebud is the name of my airplane (she came with it ;)
This may get a little long, but since this topic won’t die, the time has come to tell it. Back in the late 70"s my friend Russ and I were helping a college name his converted Bristol Bay sail boat. We recommended a name for which he could get a sign at the hardware store: "Keep of The Grass", "Beware of Dog" etc. He finally settled on a sign he saw on the side of a local grocery store: "Smoked Fish". Well the idea stuck and a year or so later Russ and I decided to enter the 2nd annual Cross Sound Rowing race from West Seattle to Bainbridge Island. We decided to stay in the double rowboat class and not compete with the sliding seat crowd. The idea was to maximize performance thru design and build dirt cheap. We also knew it would be a last-minute deal and that of course influenced the name. We "layed the keel" 7 days before the race. Hanging over the building site was the sign fresh from the hardware store: "WET PAINT" We launched WET PAINT two days before the race and took a second place on the 5+ mile course across the sound and up into Eagle Harbor. We followed this with two consecutive wins in the Cross Sound in the next two years, one in WET PAINT and one in WET PAINT 2., plus the Wet Paint Racing Team enjoyed many other races around Puget Sound, including Ballard to Bainbridge, Round Shaw, The Lutafisk Pull, and Pull N Be Damned. Both boats are gone now, WET PAINT we sold to some unsuspecting fool at a yard sale and Russ gave WET PAINT 2 a Viking Funneral whan the A/C plywood (remember cheap) began comming apart. He did however send me a section of the bow with the name painted on it and WET PAINT 2 now hangs in my boat shop.
"Time Well Spent" works both in and out of the water.
Phil
No named Kayaks, but I have recently inherited a new name for myself.
I have two young nephews (4 and 6) that rather enjoy coming up with new nicknames for various family members... a few examples - Grandpa is "Grandpa Tractor Ride" - Uncle Bob is "Uncle Boat ride" - and being in a CLC forum it probably goes without saying, I have offically and forever become "Uncle Boat Builder"
I built a Mill Creek 16.5 double two years ago to take my kids out in. I ordered a set of plans and took 2 weeks off in January... during which I spent most of my time in the garage. I was a little bit in the dog house with my wife after so many hours cutting, gluing and sanding and by the time I was ready to take it out for a spin on the river she was quite fed up with the whole boating thing. The kids loved it and wanted to go at every opportunity, but it continued to get on my wife's nerves.
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It only seemed natural to name it "Double Trouble".
My nearly finished Chesapeake 16 will be called "Odysseus" - appropriate as my name is Penelope
I named my first kayak "The Endurance" I just hope it doesn't end up with the same fate as the original.
Phil
I hadn't thought of naming my Wood Duck, but I had talked about building a boat for so long my wife thought "Journey" fit. I agree.
Don
This should be better.
Don
I, Like JimC, named mine after my daughter. LKP are her initials, so I came up with that, so I wouldn't have her name plastered everywhere so people could ask about it (yes, I'm paranoid). It also happens to be the first letters of "Leaky Kayak Project" which is what my working name for the boat was as I was building. (Tunred out to be a very apt name since she started taking on more and more water over the last couple of years).
It's not written on the boat anywhere, and I have other names for the boat as well, so it's more a term of endearment than an actual name.
FrankP
