Many years ago I was very involved with a women in R.I. She was a nurse. I at
the time worked for Snap-on tools. We combining our occupations to name the
boat. "Nurse Ratchet" was the boats name.
Michael Cotton
On Saturday, March 22, 2014 10:26 AM, Ron Kaye <ronkaye...@gmail.com> wrote:
Of all the boat-naming rationale I've heard I like yours the most.
>
>Another "dead" song that I've always thought would make a fine name for a
>boat: Ripple - but that's almost too easy.
>
>Back in the 80s I used to play Love and Rockets and saw them live a couple of
>times. My wife at the time and I named our first sailboat: Kundalini Express
>
>My subsequent wife and I named the next: Nautisaurus. Not from any song title
>- just "water lizard" love that name. The new owner kept the name and really
>likes it.
>
>The current boat 35/3 we named "Mr. Bop" is the title of a unique poem written
>by a very good and very bohemian "starving artist" friend of ours who now
>lives in Bulgaria. He was quite a "dead head" himself as was his father. The
>previous name "Small Favors" just didn't hit the right nerve.
>
>On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Wally Bryant <w...@wbryant.com> wrote:
>
>Yeah.
>>
>>In Spanish, "Stella Blue" translates to "Estela Azul" which means "Blue
>>Wake," as in the wake behind a boat. At least ten Mexicans have told me
>>that, and everybody seems to think it's really cool and that I'm really smart
>>to make such a subtle play on words.
>>
>>Right.
>>
>>I actually picked the name after I had an inspirational vision during a
>>Grateful Dead show, while they were playing the song, and decided get a boat,
>>name it Stella Blue, and go sailing.
>>
>>Later I learned that the song was written about Thorazine, which was a drug
>>given to institutionalized psychiatric patients, but in the 1960's was also
>>recreationally abused.
>>
>>And folks wonder why I think everything is funny...
>>
>>Wal
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