Of all the boat-naming rationale I've heard I like yours the most. Another "dead" song that I've always thought would make a fine name for a boat: Ripple - but that's almost too easy.
Back in the 80s I used to play Love and Rockets and saw them live a couple of times. My wife at the time and I named our first sailboat: Kundalini Express My subsequent wife and I named the next: Nautisaurus. Not from any song title - just "water lizard" love that name. The new owner kept the name and really likes it. The current boat 35/3 we named "Mr. Bop" is the title of a unique poem written by a very good and very bohemian "starving artist" friend of ours who now lives in Bulgaria. He was quite a "dead head" himself as was his father. The previous name "Small Favors" just didn't hit the right nerve. On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Wally Bryant <w...@wbryant.com> wrote: > Yeah. > > In Spanish, "Stella Blue" translates to "Estela Azul" which means "Blue > Wake," as in the wake behind a boat. At least ten Mexicans have told me > that, and everybody seems to think it's really cool and that I'm really > smart to make such a subtle play on words. > > Right. > > I actually picked the name after I had an inspirational vision during a > Grateful Dead show, while they were playing the song, and decided get a > boat, name it Stella Blue, and go sailing. > > Later I learned that the song was written about Thorazine, which was a > drug given to institutionalized psychiatric patients, but in the 1960's was > also recreationally abused. > > And folks wonder why I think everything is funny... > > Wal > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > -- Ron
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