50k Boat Names(www.beautifulpublicdata.com)
44 pointsby jonathanmkeeganan hour ago14 comments
  • rob7426 minutes ago
    I can't help but think this article could have used some more polishing. The stats say that there are 101 boats named "Freedom", but if you enter "Freedom" in the search, it shows 48 boats with names including "Freedom", of which however only one is called just "Freedom". That doesn't really add up?!

    Also, clicking "Movie/TV" yields a paltry 22 boats, which I think is far too few. E.g. the boat called "USS Enterprise" isn't included. Ok, it could be named after the 1958 aircraft carrier, but I would say the odds are far greater that it was named after the Starfleet ships. Then again, I can understand why "Starlight Express" is included under "Music", but why also all other boats with names containing the word "Starlight"?!

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    • daemonologist17 minutes ago
      On the first point, I think it's a search of boat names, not boats - they're deduplicated.
      • rob7414 minutes ago
        Sure, but if you click on the boat called "Freedom", it shows you the data of one specific boat, not "there are X boats with this name". So I still think it's inconsistent...
    • squigz23 minutes ago
      Err, the Enterprise has been a ship name for a few hundred years, quite a bit before Star Trek was ever conceived.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise

  • xnorswap35 minutes 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.

  • lewispban hour ago
    My boat's called Floating Point :)
  • wxwa minute ago
    The top 3 names being

    > Freedom

    > Liberty

    > Serenity

    Reads like a state motto

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  • BigTunaan hour ago
    I've always thought Unsinkable II would be a good boat name
    • kmoser3 minutes ago
      How about Titanic II?
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    • stinkbeetlean hour 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.
      • gilleain34 minutes ago
        What about "Really Actually Unsinkable 9"?
        • sorokoda few seconds ago
          Following in the footsteps steps of "The Hand of God 137"
        • rrr_oh_man10 minutes ago
          You're missing the "You're absolutely right" prefix
  • Skidaddle8 minutes ago
    It really needs a picture of each boat!
  • reactordevan hour 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.

  • svdran hour ago
    Also never forget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface
  • brkan hour 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.
  • Aeroian hour 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_Brumpus36 minutes 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.
  • hbs18an hour ago
    Can't believe there's only one Stugots
  • mh226628 minutes ago
    Bust Out Another Thousand
  • mellosoulsan hour 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

    • rob7442 minutes 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...