Some of these are really lacking in gravitas.
50k Boat Names
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#92Looked 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
I think the source is AIS which requires paperwork and an FCC issued license to register a name.
My boat is there.
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#93Naming 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-…
I have seen at least one super yacht named for a Bond film.
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#94Also never forget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface
I found "Change Order" a pleasure craft out of Alabama. 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/
I don't understand. Marine Traffic is almost identical but has the advantage for displaying the location of the boat.
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#95It 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.
I'm surprised my boat is the only in one in AIS also.
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#96It really needs a picture of each boat!
Marinetraffic.com lets people upload pictures of the boat.
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#97That'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" ;-)
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#98Reminds me of the ship names in the Culture novels by Iain M Banks.
Wikipedia deleted the page with a list of them, but the fans took up the challenge:
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#99Some of these are really lacking in gravitas.
Would you venture to say that there is a shortfall of it?
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#100This 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 l…
I edited a boating magazine (inland waterways, not sea-going) and we got article submissions like this all the time.
I ended up putting in our 'Notes for Contributors' something like "Write about what will be interesting to the _reader_, not what is interesting to you" because apparently this eluded people.