[Rhodes22-list] boat name

[Steve]

Good one on the Condensed Sloop, Mary Lou:-)
Steve



--- Mary Lou Troy <mltroy at verizon.net> wrote:
> Ok Michael, here's my list. Aeolus (or Aiolos or
> Aeolos) is good so if you 
> like it you might want to stick with it. No one will
> know how to spell it 
> though - that's in keeping I guess.
> 
> I've thought of a few other possibilities:
> Sounder   (because you sail LIS)
> Southwester
> Southerly
> Harp   (as in Aeolian Harp - an instrument played by
> the wind - also a good 
> beer)
> Decoder   (well, you know....)
> Magic ring   (ditto...)
> Translation
> Mademoiselle   (so you can have a French girl to
> show rummy)
> Joker
> Too quiet
> Intangible
> Lucky
> AMLANI  (sounds Hawaiian, hope it doesn't mean
> anything but first two 
> letters of your girls names)
> AMLANIKA    (sounds Swedish, Finnish or Russian,
> hope it doesn't mean 
> anything and have added the first two letters of
> Karin's name)
> Ringer    (because you boat will not be quite
> recognizable as a Seaward 26 
> and will have folks scratching their heads)
> Mystery (ditto)
> 
> and my favorite (I actually woke up in the middle of
> the night laughing 
> with this one):
> Condensed Sloop
> 
> 
> I also did a search for websites about wind - so
> here are a few where you 
> might get more ideas (warning - a lot of these sites
> seem to be put up by 
> new-agey romantics):
> http://ggweather.com/winds.html
>
http://www.soilsci.ndsu.nodak.edu/Enz/ss217/winds.html
> http://apdl.kcc.hawaii.edu/~oahu/stories/winds.htm
>
http://mediatheek.thinkquest.nl/~ll118/en/development/types.list.html
> http://windlegends.org/windnames.htm
> http://windlegends.org/windgods.htm
> http://www.owlsdottir.com/wind/geolas/Winds.htm
> just new-agey but poetic:
> http://www.sacredspiral.com/books/magickal.pdf
> and a boat name site you might have missed (with
> reasons why people used 
> those names which might jar something loose)
> http://www.redskyatnight.com/boatnames.html
> 
> 
> You might ask Karin for something in German that's
> not too long or hard to 
> say on the VHF
> 
> Good luck! Hope this helps!
> 
> Mary Lou
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 10:25 PM 6/15/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> >well I tried that, Laura, Amy, Nina, ended up with
> LAN, covers the 
> >computer part also, but did not have feeling!!!,
> adding karines
> >name did not help, Did I mention they let me have a
> boy dog :-)
> >
> >Father name does not help, Bernard or Barrel is not
> boating.
> >
> >I checked the other names, but they seems very
> common,  Aeolus still on top.
> >
> >
> >
> >MJM
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Jim Connolly" <jbconnolly at comcast.net>
> >To: "'The Rhodes 22 mail list'"
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 10:15 PM
> >Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] boat name
> >
> >
> >Michael,
> >
> >If you're going to all this trouble, it should be
> something that means
> >something to you.  Maybe makes you smile?
> >
> >Wife/daughters' name(s) combination, something
> about you being outnumbered 3
> >or 4 to 1
> >
> >(Overly) clever computer slang term
> >
> >I've had 4 boats, with three names:
> >
> >Changes in Latitude (uninspired and, to be honest,
> the old piece of ^&@% had
> >a lot of difficulty changing position, much less
> latitude)
> >Second Love (wife let me buy a brand new Grady
> White 23' :-)  )
> >
> >And last 2 named Inis Oírr (Inisheer) which was my
> sailing grandfather's
> >ancestral home.
> >
> >I actually like Aeolus.  There are other
> greek/roman minor deities dealing
> >with wind & sailing. e.g.
> http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/WINDS.html
> >
> >Good Luck
> >
> >Jim Connolly
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> >[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On
> Behalf Of Michael Meltzer
> >Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 9:30 PM
> >To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
> >Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] boat name
> >
> >Karin laughed, but I do not thing so :-) SO far I
> have spent more timer on
> >the boat name than all 3 kids name, been running
> thought "boat name" web
> >site.
> >MJM
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <R22RumRunner at aol.com>
> >To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 9:35 PM
> >Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] boat name
> >
> >
> > > Michael,
> > >
> > > How bout, "Grounds for divorce?".
> > >
> > > Rummy
> > >
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