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rob74 3 hours ago [-]
I can't help but think this article could have used some more polishing. The stats say that there are 101 boats named "Freedom", but if you enter "Freedom" in the search, it shows 48 boats with names including "Freedom", of which however only one is called just "Freedom". That doesn't really add up?!
Also, clicking "Movie/TV" yields a paltry 22 boats, which I think is far too few. E.g. the boat called "USS Enterprise" isn't included. Ok, it could be named after the 1958 aircraft carrier, but I would say the odds are far greater that it was named after the Starfleet ships. Then again, I can understand why "Starlight Express" is included under "Music", but why also all other boats with names containing the word "Starlight"?!
daemonologist 3 hours ago [-]
On the first point, I think it's a search of boat names, not boats - they're deduplicated.
rob74 3 hours ago [-]
Sure, but if you click on the boat called "Freedom", it shows you the data of one specific boat, not "there are X boats with this name". So I still think it's inconsistent...
3 hours ago [-]
squigz 3 hours ago [-]
Err, the Enterprise has been a ship name for a few hundred years, quite a bit before Star Trek was ever conceived.
This reminds me of a girl I knew in college who worked as a contracter for a book publisher.
I was surprised to learn that one of the most common types of books people submitted were dairies of their sailing. Like, "we sailed to this island and there was bad weather then we sailed to this other island".
Apparently they'd get a manuscript like this once a week or something. Not sure what the market is like for books like that since I don't think I've ever seen one in a book store.
gmiller123456 11 minutes ago [-]
Ocean sailing leaves a lot of free time. Also the people who can afford to do it have a lot of free time. So I don't find it that surprising.
lewispb 3 hours ago [-]
My boat's called Floating Point :)
JKCalhoun 2 hours ago [-]
Better than Overflow.
lossyalgo 55 minutes ago [-]
If I had a boat I would totally steal that (and wait for other nerds to strike up conversations).
macintux 46 minutes ago [-]
If you really want to attract the hard-core nerds, name it "IEEE 754" instead.
lossyalgo 11 minutes ago [-]
haha very cute! Got me thinking, IP69K might also be fun, albeit slightly less nerdy.
throwup238 36 minutes ago [-]
I’ve always been impartial to Sea++
victorbjorklund 3 hours ago [-]
Epic name
xnorswap 3 hours ago [-]
The "Boat ownership by income" is interesting, although easy to misread at a glance.
7% of boat owners earning under $25k is of course very different from 7% of people earning under $25k owning a boat.
I'd love to see an actual chart of boat ownership at income levels, it would read quite differently I'm sure.
umeshunni 45 minutes ago [-]
The other challenge I assume is that many boat owners are retired and presumably have little or no taxable income
nemomarx 39 minutes ago [-]
Is there no way to measure that? I'm wondering how they pay for maintenance on the fixed income. Could be an interesting thing to analyze at least, maybe it depends on if you need to winter it...
BigTuna 4 hours ago [-]
I've always thought Unsinkable II would be a good boat name
People think lots of things are good boat names. There's no reason there couldn't have more than one Unsinkable that hadn't sunk, and most boats aren't retired by sinking, so Unsinkable II would fit right in.
jollyllama 1 hours ago [-]
Parent reply is actually way funnier and more original than the GP, which has already been repeated by two other posters.
gilleain 3 hours ago [-]
What about "Really Actually Unsinkable 9"?
sorokod 2 hours ago [-]
Following in the footsteps of "The Hand of God 137"
arethuza 2 hours ago [-]
If I buy a yacht I'd name it "The Ends of Invention" - have been keeping that name handy for almost 40 years since I read CP in a oner in May 1988.
rrr_oh_man 3 hours ago [-]
You're missing the "You're absolutely right" prefix
It had my boat name, which so far I haven't seen duplicated, and isn't particularly specific to anything that would preclude someone else from using it.
Aeroi 4 hours ago [-]
love this, i'm a boat captain and collect images of terrible boat names on my phone. people are insane, always baffles me what they will name a boat.
Uncle_Brumpus 3 hours ago [-]
I think the 2 funniest I found here are "TT Firebird Ribeye" which just sounds like an incredibly specific steakhouse menu item, and "Privacy II", which I just think is a bit on the funny-ironic side that we're all now looking at their vessel data and violating their privacy.
Rebelgecko 30 minutes ago [-]
It should be illegal to leave a tantalizing comment like that without giving some examples :)
dvh 1 hours ago [-]
I'm on mobile and I can't figure out how to search.
Skidaddle 3 hours ago [-]
It really needs a picture of each boat!
hbs18 4 hours ago [-]
Can't believe there's only one Stugots
mh2266 3 hours ago [-]
Bust Out Another Thousand
wxw 2 hours ago [-]
The top 3 names being
> Freedom
> Liberty
> Serenity
Reads like a state motto
warmwaffles 2 hours ago [-]
Someone needs to take "Unsinkable II"
mellosouls 4 hours ago [-]
Disappointed to see no mention of Boaty McBoatface.
Can't be that often boat naming becomes headlines.
Probably because the article only uses data from the US, so it would be a bit strange if it included the name of a British AUV. Or are you wondering why no one in the US liked that story enough to name their own boat Boaty McBoatface? There is a Boaty Boat, so that's something...
Also, clicking "Movie/TV" yields a paltry 22 boats, which I think is far too few. E.g. the boat called "USS Enterprise" isn't included. Ok, it could be named after the 1958 aircraft carrier, but I would say the odds are far greater that it was named after the Starfleet ships. Then again, I can understand why "Starlight Express" is included under "Music", but why also all other boats with names containing the word "Starlight"?!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Enterprise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_ship_Entreprenant
I was surprised to learn that one of the most common types of books people submitted were dairies of their sailing. Like, "we sailed to this island and there was bad weather then we sailed to this other island".
Apparently they'd get a manuscript like this once a week or something. Not sure what the market is like for books like that since I don't think I've ever seen one in a book store.
7% of boat owners earning under $25k is of course very different from 7% of people earning under $25k owning a boat.
I'd love to see an actual chart of boat ownership at income levels, it would read quite differently I'm sure.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640571/
My boat was not among them sadly as I was serious about mine.
Fishizzle, Boat Float, Unsinkable II, Knot for Sail, etc.
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/sd97i4/read_dinghy_n...
It'd be awesome if there was enough metadata to link across to an AIS aggregator/map like https://www.marinetraffic.com/
> Freedom
> Liberty
> Serenity
Reads like a state motto
Can't be that often boat naming becomes headlines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface