50k Boat Names

mellosouls

Disappointed to see no mention of Boaty McBoatface. Can't be that often boat naming becomes headlines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface

svdr

Also never forget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface

Aeroi

love this, i'm a boat captain and collect images of terrible boat names on my phone. people are insane, always baffles me what they will name a boat.

hbs18

Can't believe there's only one Stugots

BigTuna

I've always thought Unsinkable II would be a good boat name

reactordev

I bought a sailboat in 2022 and sailed all over the caribbean from florida from 2022-2025. I came across a lot of funny boat names. My boat was not among them sadly as I was serious about mine. Fishizzle, Boat Float, Unsinkable II, Knot for Sail, etc.

brk

It had my boat name, which so far I haven't seen duplicated, and isn't particularly specific to anything that would preclude someone else from using it.

lewispb

My boat's called Floating Point :)

xnorswap

The "Boat ownership by income" is interesting, although easy to misread at a glance. 7% of boat owners earning under $25k is of course very different from 7% of people earning under $25k owning a boat. I'd love to see an actual chart of boat ownership at income levels, it would read quite differently I'm sure.

mh2266

Bust Out Another Thousand

rob74

I can't help but think this article could have used some more polishing. The stats say that there are 101 boats named "Freedom", but if you enter "Freedom" in the search, it shows 48 boats with names including "Freedom", of which however only one is called just "Freedom". That doesn't really add up?! Also, clicking "Movie/TV" yields a paltry 22 boats, which I think is far too few. E.g. the boat called "USS Enterprise" isn't included. Ok, it could be named after the 1958 aircraft carrier, but I would say the odds are far greater that it was named after the Starfleet ships. Then again, I can understand why "Starlight Express" is included under "Music", but why also all other boats with names containing the word "Starlight"?!

zX41ZdbW

If you are interested in the AIS (ship telemetry) data, my team has created a visualization project: https://adsb.exposed/?dataset=Ships&zoom=5&lat=52.3890&lng=4...

Skidaddle

It really needs a picture of each boat!

wxw

The top 3 names being > Freedom > Liberty > Serenity Reads like a state motto

warmwaffles

Someone needs to take "Unsinkable II"

mrtimo

The article mentions a dataset of names given to people in the USA. This is a fun name explorer WASM based on that data. 811 people in the USA have named their baby 'Diesel': https://docs.malloydata.dev/malloyyo-babynames/name_explorer...

tgtweak

It's like vanity license plates but with even less constraints... "Unsinkable II".

dvh

I'm on mobile and I can't figure out how to search.

macintux

The categorization could use some work. "Comanche" shows up under mythology, for example.

CSMastermind

This reminds me of a girl I knew in college who worked as a contracter for a book publisher. I was surprised to learn that one of the most common types of books people submitted were dairies of their sailing. Like, "we sailed to this island and there was bad weather then we sailed to this other island". Apparently they'd get a manuscript like this once a week or something. Not sure what the market is like for books like that since I don't think I've ever seen one in a book store.