three i can think of... FIGJAM (Fark I'm Good, Just Ask Me) on a hardcore Ocean battlewagon out at Block Island in the early 1980's; Tie-One-On for a tender being towed down the Mystic River; Poco Mas ("A little more") on a 75' Huckins in Greenwich a few years ago.
My first boat was a 10' sailing dink. I spent summers sailing on the vineyard and aptly named her "Shark Bait". Tied in with the locale considering they had shot Jaws there only a few years earlier.
A fellow I know named his first boat "Halcyon" envisioning beautiful days cruising calm seas and a perfect life. That boat went through a full bank of batteries, 6 starters, 7 selenoids, umpteen injectors, and an entire new fuel system in 2 years. She generally had to be shut down by choking her off, and starting was always worth a bet. The yard that replaced the fuel system forgot to open the rear tanks which brought on an interesting situation coming through a lock on the trip home, and then there was the nor'easter off Nantauket. That's just a small piece of the list. His new boat is more appropriately named, but runs great and has brought along many halcyon days. It doesn't pay to tempt fate.
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