50k Boat Names

https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/boat-names/

32•jonathanmkeegan•1h ago

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mellosouls•46m 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•16m 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...

svdr•46m ago

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

mellosouls•45m ago

Snap!

adolph•29m ago

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/

Aeroi•44m 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•9m 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•41m ago

Can't believe there's only one Stugots

BigTuna•39m ago

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

stinkbeetle•24m 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•7m ago

What about "Really Actually Unsinkable 9"?

reactordev•39m 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•22m 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.

lewispb•19m ago

My boat's called Floating Point :)

xnorswap•8m 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.

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