[Rhodes22-list] Boat Name

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There is a Chesapeake log canoe that regularly 
races around here named Silver Heel. The boat is 
listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Good name - like the origin.
https://vimeo.com/103306001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Heel_%28log_canoe%29

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD



At 04:03 PM 2/13/2016, you wrote:
>Joe, I was saving that story for another day, 
>but since you ask, the name will be 
>‘Silverheels’. The name comes from a song 
>that Gordon Lightfoot wrote back in the early 
>70’s named ‘Christian Island’.  Tall and 
>strong she dips and reels I call her Silverheels 
>And she tells me how she feels She's a good old 
>boat and she'll stay afloat Through the toughest 
>gales and keep smiling But for one more day she 
>would like to stay In the lee of Christian 
>Island When I first heard the song, I thought 
>that was a good name for a sailboat, and the 
>notion has been floating around in my brain for 
>over 40 years. Interestingly, according to the 
>Internet (which is never wrong), Gordon Light 
>never owned a sailboat named Silverheels.  He 
>did have a sailboat, but it’s name was 
>‘Sundown’. A search of database at 
>10000boatnames.com <http://10000boatnames.com/> 
>got no hits, but there is a boat in Florida with 
>the name and a webpage (silverheels.us), but at 
>least I’ll be sharing the name with a nice 
>looking Pearson 424. Peter Nyberg 1988/2016 s/v 
>Silverheels (someday) But for now - No Boat 
>Yet > On Feb 13, 2016, at 3:25 PM, The Rhodes 22 
>Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> 
>wrote: > > Peter, > > Are you intending to name 
>it " no boat yet" ? > > Down hill Joe > > Joseph 
>Doucet > 70 pumping station rd > Ridgefield , ct 
>USA > 1-203-512-5629 
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