Why are boat names feminine?
 

Hi!

Why are boat names most of times feminine or general but hardly ever
they have a masculin name?

Remko

Why are boat names feminine?
 

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Hi!

Why are boat names most of times feminine or general but hardly ever
they have a masculin name?

Remko


Ancient tradition.
Women aboard was also considered to bring bad luck.
Same with bananas and umbrellas today.

Eisboch

Why are boat names feminine?
 

wrote:
Hi!

Why are boat names most of times feminine or general but hardly ever
they have a masculin name?

Remko

Has to do with the fact that in languages where nouns are gender
specific boats are
feminine. "La Barca", rather than "El Barco". A boat is a vessel, or
container, (like a womb), and nouns in that category are often
feminine.

But the explanation that is a lot more fun involves the many
similarities between a boat and a woman.

1) On any given day, and without warning or apparent reason, a boat can
make your life a living hell.

2) On any given day, and often for no apparent reason, a boat can make
your life heaven on earth.

3) No matter how plain she might appear to others, in our own mind's
eye she is gorgeous.

4) It takes a lot of paint and prepwork to make her look her best, a
continuous, costly prject often referred to as "high maintenance".

5) Her accessories and trappings always seem to sell for prices that
make little or no sense, but are in any event deemed "essential".

6) When well treated she will respond in kind.

7) When neglected or abused she will respond in kind.

8) We often fall in love with a boat, knowing full well she will never
really love us back.

9) Nobody ever really "owns" a boat. Most will serve whomever is
currently paying her bills.

10) When you don't have a boat, life seems incomplete and you may be
desperate to find one. Once you have found one, there will be difficult
times when you will wonder why you ever wanted one in the first place.
If we give her up because we have fallen out of love with her, it can
be a happy day when we are finally rid of her. If forced to let her go
while we're still in love, she'll carry away small pieces of our hearts
and she will forever seem far more perfect in memories than she
actually was.

11) With the graceful ruffle of a sail, an attractive curve of the bow,
or the soft purring of
a healthy engine a boat can reduce the roughest, toughest, man to an
emotionally goofy
servant- enraptured with her mysteries and addicted to the pursuit of
unrealized possiblities.

Considering the above, it would be tough for most heterosexual men to
consider a boat a "he".

Why are boat names feminine?
 

I am not certain this is true, but I recall reading somewhere that the
Russian custom is masculine names.

Perhaps someone else can confirm this.

Mark Browne

wrote:
Hi!

Why are boat names most of times feminine or general but hardly ever
they have a masculin name?

Remko

Why are boat names feminine?
 

wrote:
I am not certain this is true, but I recall reading somewhere that the
Russian custom is masculine names.

Perhaps someone else can confirm this.

Mark Browne


I dunno, but maybe with enough Vodka and snowed in for the winter in
some isolated cabin in the most remote reaches of Siberia guys start
looking good......Naw, personally can't even imagine it. :-) I don't
know much about the Russian language, maybe "boat" is a masculine noun
in Russian- but I didn't think their nouns were gender specific.

Why are boat names feminine?
 

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Ancient tradition.
Women aboard was also considered to bring bad luck.
Same with bananas and umbrellas today.

Is a T-Top considered an umbrella?

And what about a banana boat? hard luck and trouble all the way around?

Why are boat names feminine?
 

wrote:
I am not certain this is true, but I recall reading somewhere that the
Russian custom is masculine names.

Perhaps someone else can confirm this.

Not so difficult to understand. Have you ever seen a Russian woman?

--
Stan

Why are boat names feminine?
 

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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Ancient tradition.
Women aboard was also considered to bring bad luck.
Same with bananas and umbrellas today.

Is a T-Top considered an umbrella?

And what about a banana boat? hard luck and trouble all the way around?


The morning we left on our voyage to Florida, my brother's wife supplied a
bunch of bananas as some last minute provisions
..
Horrified, we took them off the boat and, as a joke, put them in the
cockpit of a friend's boat next to us. 2 weeks later I heard he blew an
engine.

Eisboch

Boatin Superstitions (was Why are boat names feminine?)
 

Here are a few links:

http://pacificoffshorerigging.com/na...erstitions.htm

http://www.boatus.com/goodoldboat/naming.htm (classic re-naming
ceremony)

http://www.csicop.org/superstition/library/sailors.html

http://keywestcharterboats.com/nobananas.html (about bananas)


Eisboch

Why are boat names feminine?
 

Stan (the Man) wrote:


wrote:

I am not certain this is true, but I recall reading somewhere that the
Russian custom is masculine names.

Perhaps someone else can confirm this.


Not so difficult to understand. Have you ever seen a Russian woman?


Nothin' wrong with a good 'tractor woman' when there's work to be done
in the fields.