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When I lived in Pensacola, I lived next door to a captain of a boat that tended the oil rigs in the Gulf.  He had spent most of his life on or near the water.  He once told me that naming a boat should be given serious thought and should not be taken lightly.  He hated that some people gave boats whimsical or joke-like names.  

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I once lived with a woman who owned a dance studio..her ex-and at the time I knew her now late husband was a sculptor ..She told me tales of when they were married..a pot of soup going on one burner of the stove...and a pot of dance costumes being dyed on another burner :D  Anyway...she wanted a grand piano....he apparently wanted a boat....He purchased the boat...and named it Nancy's Grand Piano....  I am not sure how much longer the marriage lasted after that... her two sons were both guitar players..the one son played flamenco.  I am sure a piano would have been well received in the house.

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21 minutes ago, petitepedal said:

I once lived with a woman who owned a dance studio..her ex-and at the time I knew her now late husband was a sculptor ..She told me tales of when they were married..a pot of soup going on one burner of the stove...and a pot of dance costumes being dyed on another burner :D  Anyway...she wanted a grand piano....he apparently wanted a boat....He purchased the boat...and named it Nancy's Grand Piano....  I am not sure how much longer the marriage lasted after that... her two sons were both guitar players..the one son played flamenco.  I am sure a piano would have been well received in the house.

She sounded like a creative soul.. in every way.

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3 minutes ago, Zephyr said:

I have not named either canoe...., if it was a boat big enough to name, I would probably name it Surface Interval because I would use it for the surface interval between dives

Lake Michigan dive boat was Betty L.  An old steel fishing trawler.

this is my new canoe.  Only 5 years old.  Older one was purchased new in 1974

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13 hours ago, KrAzY said:

You got the same state laws as us where you don’t need numbers on a watercraft under 20ft with paddle power. 
mince we add a small motor of any kind we need a registration 

Here I think you need to register anything with a motor 10hp or more..., which is why the 9.9hp engibes sell so well.

A self propelled canoe is fine.

On a completely bizarre note, our drunk driving laws state that while drunk, you cannot operate a "... motor vehicle, vessel, or aircraft..." and our transport regs say that a canoe over a certain length (16-ish feet maybe) is a designated vessel so you could technically be charged with impaired operation while paddling your canoe

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We, my sister's family and I, bought a boat in 1998, a 21' inboard/outdrive with a 210 HP engine - where we could go 35 to 50 mph on a reasonably calm Chesapeake Bay and get where we wanted to fish - and a cuddy cabin with a port-a-potty and a grill we could attach to a rod holder.

We called it the "Reel Busy."  We should have called it the "Money Pit," because, besides the $2000/year boatel fees, it cost us $150 - $200 in gas for a typical day's fishing and trolling after gasoline prices tripled and quadrupled in the 2000's.  That resulted in us not using it enough and we sold it.

If I got one today, some variation of Money Pit would be the name.

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De Nada was the name of our old beat up Cal 20.  Our "friends" called her "The Crack Addict".  She was admittedly a bit rough above the water line, but below the water line she was smooth and fast and we won more than a few races with her.

I would probably stay with De Nada.  I like the humility of that name.

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