Weekend special: memorable boat names
Imagine the VHF calls! “This IS M/V Emergency Mental Services. How can we be of help?” This beaut is the yard boat of the very good humored Westerly Marina in Ossining, NY, seen on my Hudson cruise last fall. On closer inspection you’ll see that Marine Response Unit No. 10 probably once worked at Emergency Enviromental Services. Meanwhile, up the river in Newburgh, is a boat I would not like to vocalize on the radio. Just too stupid:
In Annapolis there is a racing sailboatr named “Polly Wanna Cracker”! Try to get a serious response saying “MAYDAY MAYDAY this is Polly Wanna Cracker.”
Never Again II
There is also a “Ship Happens” in Marina Del Rey, CA, with a dingy named “Piece of Ship”.
Seen on consecutive narrowboats on canals here in England………….”HOOF HEARTED” “SHYTALK”. Love it! Dan
When I was sailing E-Scows in Wisconsin back in the 1970s there was one boat with “HELP” painted upside down on the transom.