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We have 3 names we like picked out, each has reasons, Please guide us vote and if you could give a "why", thanks.

I like Absum. To me, names like "Bonnie Jean" just seem more appropriate for either a working lobster boat, or a classic old wooden schooner. But that would be my second choice. "Pandora" is too common, in my opinion.

wow 8 votes and looking landslidic

I agree with Nathan on Bonnie Jean, great name for a schooner, but I will have to go against the flow here. Pandora would be a great name since boats are like Pandora's box in that once you have opened an affair with that special boat you will never be able to close it. ;)

Dittos on the mother inlaws name on an oyster dredge or some similar work boat.

Pandora.....boooring (say it in a homer simpson voice please)

Absum...

Intrigue, interesting story and looks good on a transom.....

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I was thinking of naming my next boat after my mother-in-law, but my wife said "Battleaxe" dosn't sound right on a cruising boat...

I love my in-law, the wife was the driving factor behind the name, because both are old and falling apart. So Absum really seems to be the ticket, orignal, classy, and hidden meaning.

Zing!

Absum is my choice. I suspect, however, that you'll forever be explaining the name to passers-by unless they're latin scholars. That's OK, but just be prepared.

Naming a boat Pandora is like choosing "Carpe Diem", or "Serendipity", or "Phoenix". All good names...until they became far too overused. A bit of originality is key in boat naming, in my opinion. It's almost impossible to be completely unique, however.

If you really need the mother in law points, though, then the smart choice would be "Bonnie Jean"! Sounds like that is not the case, however.

Slightly off-topic - Ric, thanks for the link to the BoatUS graphics thing.
Had fun with that for a while - interesting.
BTW, I voted for Bonnie Jean. Simple, unpretentious.

I didn't vote. To me a name is something personal. It has to have meaning to the owner(s) and not necessarily anyone else. I know I tried to be original as Tim has suggested as well. Originality was a key component for me. But whether you are original or not you have to be happy with the name, and not just now, but down the road.

I agree about the personability but all three names have meaning and if I could I'd name her all three but 400 dollars in graphics is a bit extreme. We are just indescisive, and look for some opinions, what all who voted and commented help immensly, I belive we'll be going with absum, White letters on a red hull, with a black shadow . . . Awlgrip Claret Red. Spray the hull tonite . . .

You could always shorten Bonnie Jean to Bonnie.

Bonnie is of Scottish origin, and its meaning is "fine, attractive, pretty". From the Scottish word "bonnie" and also diminutive of the French word "bonne", meaning "good". Commonly used as a fond nickname. The old nursery rhyme claims that "the child who is born on the Sabbath Day/is bonny and blithe and good and gay".

Bonniejeau - <grins>