50k Boat Names

(beautifulpublicdata.com)

32 points | by jonathanmkeegan 1 hour ago

10 comments

  • xnorswap 8 minutes ago
    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 1 minute ago
    Bust Out Another Thousand
  • lewispb 20 minutes ago
    My boat's called Floating Point :)
  • reactordev 39 minutes ago
    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 22 minutes ago
    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.
  • BigTuna 40 minutes ago
    I've always thought Unsinkable II would be a good boat name
    • stinkbeetle 24 minutes ago
      People think lots of things are good boat names. There's no reason there couldn't have more than one Unsinkable that hadn't sunk, and most boats aren't retired by sinking, so Unsinkable II would fit right in.
      • gilleain 7 minutes ago
        What about "Really Actually Unsinkable 9"?
  • svdr 46 minutes ago
  • Aeroi 44 minutes ago
    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.
    • Uncle_Brumpus 9 minutes ago
      I think the 2 funniest I found here are "TT Firebird Ribeye" which just sounds like an incredibly specific steakhouse menu item, and "Privacy II", which I just think is a bit on the funny-ironic side that we're all now looking at their vessel data and violating their privacy.
  • hbs18 42 minutes ago
    Can't believe there's only one Stugots
  • mellosouls 47 minutes ago
    Disappointed to see no mention of Boaty McBoatface.

    Can't be that often boat naming becomes headlines.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface

    • rob74 16 minutes ago
      Probably because the article only uses data from the US, so it would be a bit strange if it included the name of a British AUV. Or are you wondering why no one in the US liked that story enough to name their own boat Boaty McBoatface? There is a Boaty Boat, so that's something...