What's in a name? Half my sanity!!
16 January 2013
Before the papers were sent off to the Australian Ship Registration place, we needed a new name for the boat as the name Anthem was already in use by an Australian vessel. Okay, so I've named 3 kids, first and middle names, all quite good, normal, nice names. It couldn't be that difficult to name a boat. Or so I thought.
Dave and I had fairly different ideas on what we liked. Dave opted for names from his favourite bands and singers such as Thingfish by Frank Zapper, Solid Air by John Martyn, several from Pink Flloyd and Cosmic Wheels by Donovan along with about 20 other names. There were only a couple that I liked. I came up with many other names that I preferred but almost all of them were bypassed. We had a major dilemma. I sent the names out to the family and they all came back barely liking any of our suggestions but with their own attached. All together we had probably come up with more than 100 names but couldn't agree on one. If this had been a kid, it'd be in kindy before it was called anything but 'hey you'. It was turning into a naming nightmare.
After more than a week of constant searches for name ideas, speculations and discards, going through which names were already used and which weren't, waffling back and forth, doing anagrams of different words, making names up and sending lists to each other's emails, we still had nothing.
Dave eventually thought of Venture but I found it too ordinary. I made further fabulous, clever, witty and/or tasteful suggestions (as all of mine were) but he kept coming back to the name Venture. He thought it was simple, elegant and would be easy over the radio. True on all 3 counts. I found it a little dull but eventually I gave in as we were running out of time to send in the registration papers. I will admit it's growing on me and by the time the boat get here it'll be her proper name.