Thread: Running Rigging for the Goat

Originally Posted by arbordg

What I want to know, though, is -- why is everyone trying to copy "my look"????

Not trying at all--it comes naturally to some of us.

It's really just a set of coincidents, you know? when events/things/choices coincide? Coincident-coincide? Ever notice the similarities in those words?

But on a more serious note, a month or so back I settled on a name for the Goat, one that honors her goat pedigree and her relationship to her nanny, Gruff. The name was going to be B. G. Gruff (guess what B. G. stands for?). It was perfect--seven letters with two repeaters, the B and G pointing to her Aussie origin, as in the Bee Gees...

Well, MIK's advice not to rush a name is spot on and I think I was rushing it when I chose that one.

Her first launching in the Wilmington River, a few hundred yards from the cemetary where Conrad Aiken lies under his "Cosmos Mariner" epitaph got me to thinking...how about that for a name?

Aiken got the idea from a shrimp boat that happened by one afternoon while he was wandering along the bluff...Cosmos Mariner!

It's a pretty big (and deep) name for such a small (and shoal draft) vessel, but what do you guys think?

MAM - I think the name of your boat is a very personal and profound thing. But, then again, I'm a pagan, animist. We named ours Sisu, in honor of the commercial fishing Finnish community I grew up in at the mouth of the Columbia - who inspired my interest in boats. Also to - hopefully - imbue her with some of that character that is Sisu. Luckily this has happened somewhat.

For you... if that name speaks to you, then maybe you have it. I con only hope it's not too early to say I'm glad you didn't go with B.G.G. Whatever you pick, I think the more personally meaningful it is, the better it'll wear. We went through a bunch of names (I think the total starting list was something like 50 names) - trying them on for size - before we decided. Some were too common. Some were quite witty and cute (always an urge of mine) but, luckily, good friends beat me about the head and shoulders till I gave up on that proclivity.

OTOH, I didn't kick up too much fuss when my 14 year old son decided we should name "his" PDR Shredder...

When my daughter was in her teens we could always rely on her for the right name. I bought an over-powered fishing boat with twin outboards and the first thing out of her mouth was Rumblefish.

Perfect.

I forget what else she named for us but whatever it was and whatever she named it it was perfect.

She's gone now so I will have to do this one without her...Cosmos Mariner seems better by the hour.

I think David summed it up pretty well.

It sounds like Cosmos Mariner is speaking to you.

Bob

G'day MAM,
have you listened to MIK's furledsails podcast #2 on the naming of boats ?
If not, it sounds like you are instinctively doing as he suggests.
cheers
AJ

Good point. Yes, I listened to that blog several months ago but forgot about it.

But my subconscious apparently remembered.