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BIGBIRD My first sailboat was a Geary 18 named Blackbird. It's successor (same class, also a black hull) was 'Bird2. When we moved to a place where the nearest sailboat racing was 120 miles away, my next boat, a Y-Flyer, was naturally named Roadrunner (nicknamed Thirdbird). Next followed a tiny, tippy, Laser named (after the Peanuts' canary) Woodstock. Then another Laser with a purple hull, named Progne Subis (ornithological name for Purple Martin). My final boat, bought partly to interest my granddaughters in sailing, is my first keel boat, and it is the biggest of the flock. So the name BigBird seemed to be a natural. Although the graphics are intended to be 'warm and fuzzy,' there is a subtle message: on the port side Bigbird is looking aft--and waving goodbye to the rest of the fleet. Oh, by the way, BigBird's class racing spinnaker is green and named "Oscar the Grouch," and its bigger, blue, PHRF spinnaker is "Cookie Monster." ENDLESS My 34' Mainship III is Named "Endless" as it is my....Endless..... Money Pit Love Source of Problems Frustration Relaxation Fun and finally our love for each other is "ENDLESS" REDOUBT French word meaning secret place We have the name in drop shadow on either side of our Hunter 23.5 The secret place was often a hiding place for naval guns SUNRISE MISTRESS Thanks for the chance to share a name that was say the less was harder to come up with then i had thought but after a couple of weeks of mind bending the Sunrise Mistress was my best . There is no real story behind the name other then i have a very good friend that i steal sunrise with every morning at work . We both enjoy our start to a new day with each others company and a great Sunrise in the desert hence the name . MAASKEETO HAWK Looking through the dictionary for a unique name which would sound something like my last name, Maas, I discovered "mosquito" and, even better, "mosquito hawk", a nickname for a dragonfly. Dragonflies bite mosquitoes, not people, are quick and manueverable. FOOL'S GOLD It's not the name of my boat, but it applies to most of us. I've seen it on the Rideau Canal System. UP NORTH If you were to grow up in Southern Lower Michigan, and you were asked what you were doing over the weekend in the summer, 90% of the time the answer was "Going Up North". There was no specific destination, just "Up North". Therefore, the runabout I own is named "Up North". ARMAND A LEG The name of my boat is Armand a Leg. It is a 1990 39 SeaRay Express Cruiser. When my wife and i started looking for new boats ( we had a '84 26' SeaRay ) i told her we could get something nice for around 60K. Well we spent a little more than that. Our last name is Armand. It cost us a ... © 1993-2017 Marine Graphics, Inc.