Boat Names

[PeteSmith]

Is there any good place to check out if a boat name is already used?

Pete
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[Nos4r2]

You could try the ITU maritime listings here-you can search by vessel name. http://www.itu.int/cgi-bin/htsh/mars/ship_search.sh

[Andy Moore]

Lloyds Register of Shipping?

Small Ships Register?

[SeaSkills]

You have to be pretty creative these days to find a name that hasn't already been used somewhere

[danwells]

Originally Posted by SeaSkills

You have to be pretty creative these days to find a name that hasn't already been used somewhere

yer sounds about right. i like the name preditor but hundreds of boats have that name.

[Carl]

whats wrong with that ,you can still name it what you want

[Andy Moore]

Originally Posted by danwells

yer sounds about right. i like the name preditor but hundreds of boats have that name.

I don't think it matters if you have a duplicate name unless you want to be listed in Lloyds Register. Our yacht had to have a unique name as we wanted it listed. This gives you certain safeguards (or it did) if something goes wrong in a foreign port.

[Lets go boating]

who cares if othe people use it, its not like you shout the name out for it to come to you is it, if you like it go for it, but don't have cambrian explorer

[Andy Moore]

Short names = easier to spell out phonetically.
Stupid names = make you sound like a knb over the VHF.

[hobbit555]

If your boat is not registered doesn't matter if the name has already been used. I guess though that most people want a unique name.
It is worth applying a 2nd form of ID(Home port, Call sign Etc) to the boat so that it is possible to narrow things down in the event of emergency.

If you want to register your boat (part one or two register)the shipping register will let you know if the name is already in use. One boat I was registering took 7 attempts to get a name that was free. Uk Register is held at Cardiff MCA office (register of seamen and Shipping).

It is also possible to hold names ( for a fee of course).

[danwells]

yep thats right why should everyone have to have a differant name for their boats if they did its going to be one hell of a website.

[Mollers]

I know 'Bastard Face' has been taken. I saw it a while back on a nice little sailing dinghy.

[nugent]

Muff Diva
frequents the bristol channel !!!!

[nugent]

hasten to add its not mine

[havener]

Just try to avoid anything that sounds like distress keywords, e.g, sampan, heyday, etc are not good ideas.
Anything particularly rude or abusive will get you in the brown stuff fairly rapidly - not through boat name regs (there are none) but through VHF regs.
Also think if you're taking the boat abroad - complicated or daft names are an absolute pain for non-english radio operators.
Names like "Trafalgar Again" don't go down well either - I was in the ops room at Corsen when some Brit called up using that name, went down like a lump of cold sh....