Top 10 Names for Boats in 2006

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We have recently announced our "2006 Top Ten List of Most Popular Boat Names". Housing slumps, high gas prices, stock market surges, and spinach scares made national headlines during the year, but that didn't faze recreational boaters in selecting feel-good names for their vessels. Their number one choice was Aquaholic, illustrating boater's chronic love for the waterways. The name has appeared on the Top Ten List for five consecutive years - and it's also the second time it's taken the number one slot.

Number five on this year's list, Happy Hours, has appeared on the list seven times since 1991, when the BoatUS Graphics and Lettering department, which makes custom boat graphics and has a database of 7,400 monikers, first started tracking boat names. All of the remaining top five, Second Wind (#2), Reel Time (#3), and Hakuna Matata (#4, which means "no worries, troubles, problems or cares" in Swahili) have appeared on the annual list at least once, as well as #10, Pura Vida (which means "pure life").

Notable newcomers that made the list for the first time include Knot Working (#6), Life is Good (#7), Plan B (#8), and Second Chance (#9). "It's interesting to see how boaters creatively express their passion for the boating lifestyle through the name of their boat," said BoatUS President Nancy Michelman, "And these newcomers are perfect examples," she added.

The "2006 Top Ten List of Most Popular Boat Names" is as follows:

1. Aquaholic
2. Second Wind
3. Reel Time
4. Hakuna Matata
5. Happy Hours
6. Knot Working
7. Life is Good
8. Plan B
9. Second Chance
10. Pura Vida

.... whhhhhhhhaaaaaat? No Serenity?
 
My twisted, and dry, 13 year old wanted to name my boat "Boat".

I wanted to name it either Mary Alice, or Mockingbird (my favorite book). My daughter won out. There are some great names on this board, and I love hearing about how they came about. That would be a great, end of the offseason thread, come to think about it.....
 
I love my boats name. why because you do it when you land a nice fish "HIGH FIVE"
I am glad I am the only boat that I know of that has that name.
 

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What????? B-Faithful didnt make the list for a second year in a row! What's up with that???

:p
 
I wanted to name my previous boat (a 17' Scout) either "Pull My Finger" or "Small But Perky". :lol: Unfortunately (or wisely) my wife vetoed those names. It's funny that they did not make the Top Ten list.
 
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