List of most popular boat names released

Posted on 05 February 2010
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BoatU.S. released its annual list of top 10 most popular boat names, and one newcomer to the list stands out.

"Bail Out, the No. 5 pick, clearly speaks volumes about what's on boaters' minds," BoatU.S. president Nancy Michelman said in a statement. "With today's economic uncertainty, naming a boat Bail Out could indicate that boating is a survival mechanism for the family that will keep them afloat."

The list is assembled each year by the BoatU.S. boat graphics service, which offers a free library of more than 8,500 boat names.

Here is the top 10 list of most popular boat names:

1. Second Wind

2. Seas the Day

3. Lazy Daze

4. Jolly Roger

5. Bail Out

6. On the Rocks

7. Pegasus

8. Serenity Now

9. Namaste

10. Comfortably Numb

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17 Thursday, 29 December 2011 21:05
By Mike Harris
my name is Mike Harris. I live in Beaufort SC. I just saw my old boat name above Called "She got the House". I've had nine boats sense then I also had a sailboat called "Blow Me" and one called "Reason Y" the last boat I told my wife I was going to the store to get a loaf of bread and ended up sailing to the Keys for a year and three months. she was waiting on me when I got back. we're still married today. If you really want some good boat names you should read my funny boating poems. just Google "floatingpoet" and find me at gotpoetry.com. The name Floatingpoet was given to me by a 104.1 fm in Key West on the Biz Baz show.
16 Friday, 19 February 2010 23:13

Our Cal Cruising 46 was named, "SATORI" by the previous owner/builder Jack Jensen. We have kept that name for 28 years now. It describes where we are and have been, 21 years living aboard, 9 years of active cruising. Truly, where we want to be.


Due to my health issues, we are scaling down our cruising to roaming close to home in Pensacola. I am completing our 22' panga, which we have named, "ODAAT", an acronym for One Day At A Time.

15 Saturday, 06 February 2010 15:51
Friends filling out the 'boat name' on a new boat purchase form did not have enough room for the name they wanted, so they wrote the name at the bottom of the form and wrote "SEE BELOW" in the boat name space.  You guessed it, when they took delivery of the boat, SEE BELOW was on the transom!
14 Saturday, 06 February 2010 15:19
My father named his boat "Never Again" with inter-locking wedding bands.  Of couse this was after the divorce. 
13 Saturday, 06 February 2010 14:04
A friend of mine had a boat named BOW MOVEMENT
12 Saturday, 06 February 2010 11:43
If BoatU.S. president Nancy Michelman can put that sort of up-spin on the number 5 name 'Bail Out', i would really like to know what economic 'spin' she can think of for the number 6 boat name 'On The Rocks' !!!?
11 Saturday, 06 February 2010 01:28
My favorite is SEICA. Something else I can't afford. We live on Catawba Island in Ohio and enjoy a good tequila occasionally. Named our boat Catawbo Wabo. Sammy Hagar fans love it!
10 Friday, 05 February 2010 21:38
My husband and I met a guy in Beaufort, SC who named his boat "She Got the House". I think that's just great!
9 Friday, 05 February 2010 19:35
Gonna buy a 46' Skater catamaran and name it either "astrophy" or "astrophic"
8 Friday, 05 February 2010 19:20

My previous husband named his boat The Cicerone. The 24' O'Day dolphin was built in 1961 when he purchased it at the boat show. He recently found in in Florida with the same name in the process of restoration.


Cicerone came from Bob's days at Marquette University. He showed a fatherthe town and the father, the author of "After Black Coffee', autographed a copy of the book to Bob as "To my wonderful Cicerone".

7 Friday, 05 February 2010 18:27
My grandparents 40 Matthews - NONA  - short for NO NAME.
6 Friday, 05 February 2010 18:23

"Sea of Eden", if there was a Sea in paradise this is what it would be called, plus my wife loves the reference.

5 Friday, 05 February 2010 18:17

My favorite is the name of a boat that belonged to a funeral home director . . .


No Wake Today

4 Friday, 05 February 2010 17:29
We named our boat "Time For Two."  After a poem for cancer victims.  My wife had breast cancer when we bought the boat.
3 Friday, 05 February 2010 17:25
Our boat is named "The Mutiny".  To make a long story short, imagine a voyage along the intercoastal from Buloxi to Florida in a 27 ft cruiser, during an extreme cold spell and swells up to 15 feet.  Our twenty-six year marriage was put to the test!
2 Friday, 05 February 2010 16:47
"Afrayed Knot" is reasuring.
1 Friday, 05 February 2010 16:00

I like "So Happy Together". It was a Turtles song, and it's on the back of my boat.

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