Any particular reason that “Andiamo” is so popular? It’s apparently Italian for “let’s go” but why is in the top 10? Is there some reference I’m missing?
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"?!
Sure, but if you click on the boat called "Freedom", it shows you the data of one specific boat, not "there are X boats with this name". So I still think it's inconsistent...
There's a fun time loop here: The Star Trek Enterprise and the real-life space shuttle Enterprise were each named after the other. In-universe, the name comes from the NX-01 being named after the space shuttle. In real life, the shuttle was named after the Star Trek ship.
(Of course, both really come from a long lineage of naval vessels with the name.)
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.
They exist, but generally for more significant voyaging. For example
- Joshua Slocum - Sailing Alone Around The World (1900)
- H.W.Tilman - Mishief Among The Penguins (1961)
- Sir Alec Rose - My Lively Lady (1968)
- Annie Hill - Voyaging on a Small Income (1993)
Is there no way to measure that? I'm wondering how they pay for maintenance on the fixed income. Could be an interesting thing to analyze at least, maybe it depends on if you need to winter it...
401Ks, IRAs, and a few other "retirement fund" options give you the option to access either your principal or investment earnings tax-free depending how they were set up.
Naming things is hard, it's best to pick a theme and stick with it.
A Columbo family mafioso I grew up near used to be in a never-ending competition with the Sultan of Brunei and the Aga Khan over who owned the worlds fastest megayacht. He named his megayachts after James Bond movies: For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, Moonraker, Casino Royale, Skyfall, and Diamnonds are Forever.
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.
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.
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.
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...
TFA said the names were taken from published AIS data, so perhaps Boaty has not shown up on USA AIS receivers as yet. Since IIRC it is an AUV thats not surprising I wonder if it even has an AIS transmitter. The ship they were asking for names for was actually named Sir David Attenborough in the end.
Any particular reason that “Andiamo” is so popular? It’s apparently Italian for “let’s go” but why is in the top 10? Is there some reference I’m missing?
How is there not one boat named "Sunk Cost"...
It looks bad on the insurance paperwork.
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"?!
On the first point, I think it's a search of boat names, not boats - they're deduplicated.
Sure, but if you click on the boat called "Freedom", it shows you the data of one specific boat, not "there are X boats with this name". So I still think it's inconsistent...
Err, the Enterprise has been a ship name for a few hundred years, quite a bit before Star Trek was ever conceived.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise
There's a fun time loop here: The Star Trek Enterprise and the real-life space shuttle Enterprise were each named after the other. In-universe, the name comes from the NX-01 being named after the space shuttle. In real life, the shuttle was named after the Star Trek ship.
(Of course, both really come from a long lineage of naval vessels with the name.)
Amusing that the page for ships called HMS Enterprise linked to from the USS Enterprise page points out that the name came originally from the French!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Enterprise
Oh interesting, I didn't know that. It's an even older name than I thought!
And the actual word is French too...
...although the French spell it with an extra "r". And they had more ships that were named Entreprenant(e) (Enterprising) than Entreprise...
Indeed they did - all the way back to 1672:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_ship_Entreprenant
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.
They exist, but generally for more significant voyaging. For example
at least are on my bookshelfOcean sailing leaves a lot of free time. Also the people who can afford to do it have a lot of free time. So I don't find it that surprising.
It's at the point I can tell, not only was AI used for this (cool, not a big deal, I use it too!) But I can tell Gemini was used here.
How can I tell? Cuz the last thing it designed for me used the exact same fonts, color tones, border sizes and spacing for buttons.
Maybe Gemini needs a higher default temperature.
Anyways, cool data gathered here tho! Thanks for sharing
I had these exact buttons come from DeepSeek for a demo landing page, it went down a path it called “memphis design”.
My boat's called Floating Point :)
Better than Overflow.
If I had a boat I would totally steal that (and wait for other nerds to strike up conversations).
If you really want to attract the hard-core nerds, name it "IEEE 754" instead.
haha very cute! Got me thinking, IP69K might also be fun, albeit slightly less nerdy.
I’ve always been impartial to Sea++
Epic name
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.
The other challenge I assume is that many boat owners are retired and presumably have little or no taxable income
Is there no way to measure that? I'm wondering how they pay for maintenance on the fixed income. Could be an interesting thing to analyze at least, maybe it depends on if you need to winter it...
"no taxable income" != "fixed income"
401Ks, IRAs, and a few other "retirement fund" options give you the option to access either your principal or investment earnings tax-free depending how they were set up.
Naming things is hard, it's best to pick a theme and stick with it.
A Columbo family mafioso I grew up near used to be in a never-ending competition with the Sultan of Brunei and the Aga Khan over who owned the worlds fastest megayacht. He named his megayachts after James Bond movies: For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, Moonraker, Casino Royale, Skyfall, and Diamnonds are Forever.
https://www.boatinternational.com/luxury-yacht-life/owners-e...
https://www.cosanostranews.com/2012/03/crime-really-does-pay...
The Ocean Trader comes up, but it's not the same specs as the MV one.
Which is special forces support ship hiding in plain sight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Ocean_Trader
I've always thought Unsinkable II would be a good boat name
unsinkable-2 (copy)-FINAL.revised7-4-19
How about Titanic II?
I've seen how that one ends too :D
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640571/
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.
What about "Really Actually Unsinkable 9"?
Following in the footsteps of "The Hand of God 137"
If I buy a yacht I'd name it "The Ends of Invention" - have been keeping that name handy for almost 40 years since I read CP in a oner in May 1988.
You're missing the "You're absolutely right" prefix
Parent reply is actually way funnier and more original than the GP, which has already been repeated by two other posters.
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...
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.
Money Pit has stuck with me.
Also never forget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface
I found "Change Order" a pleasure craft out of Alabama.
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/sd97i4/read_dinghy_n...
It'd be awesome if there was enough metadata to link across to an AIS aggregator/map like https://www.marinetraffic.com/
Snap!
I came here to say that it's apparently not in the set.
I once saw a boat called the Betty Swollocks. It made me laugh.
All I know is that when I finally buy that Zodiac RIB, I'm naming it SANGAMON'S PRINCIPLE.
It's like vanity license plates but with even less constraints... "Unsinkable II".
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.
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...
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.
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.
My favorite so far was a motorboat named "Maday". Imagine hailing them on VHF...
It should be illegal to leave a tantalizing comment like that without giving some examples :)
I probably missed it but can you download all the names? I want to run it through microgpt and see what it comes up with.
Only one Boaty Boat, lacking the McBoatyFace.
The categorization could use some work. "Comanche" shows up under mythology, for example.
It really needs a picture of each boat!
I'm on mobile and I can't figure out how to search.
Reminds me of the ship names in the Culture novels by Iain M Banks.
Can't believe there's only one Stugots
Disappointed to see no mention of Boaty McBoatface.
Can't be that often boat naming becomes headlines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface
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...
TFA said the names were taken from published AIS data, so perhaps Boaty has not shown up on USA AIS receivers as yet. Since IIRC it is an AUV thats not surprising I wonder if it even has an AIS transmitter. The ship they were asking for names for was actually named Sir David Attenborough in the end.
Anyone can name their boat Boaty McBoatface - i'm shocked there aren't dozens of them...
Bust Out Another Thousand
The top 3 names being
> Freedom
> Liberty
> Serenity
Reads like a state motto
Someone needs to take "Unsinkable II"