Thursday, April 3, 2014

What's in a name?

Our Allmand 31 is nearing it's first summer on the water with a new captain.  But before any sailings, hauling, skimming, breezed blow - there has to be a name.  With Sonador, we just adopted the name.  We were first time boat owners, already taking on a huge responsibility.  A name was on the bottom of the list of "things to accomplish."  This time we feel it's different, especially since we don't like its current name(we won't even mention it here).  This boat will be our home for the summer (did I mention that - we are living on the boat for the summer) and it will be a new adventure for the both of us.  A new name for a new beginning.  Andrew had been throwing out several ideas.  I didn't like any of them, so I kept encouraging us both to keep looking.  Then over some "painkillers" at a local bar I pulled out "the google" and started doing searches for ship names.  I looked at famous mythological ships, at old god and goddess names.  Nothing was fitting.  I googled "Celtic Names" and found a website that listed all kinds of Celtic names, Irish, Gaelic, Scottish, Welsh, etc.  And after scrolling through several pages we found it:  Hafwen (HAV wen).  It is Welsh and means "blessed summer."  It stuck, we both stopped looking.  What could be more appropriate for our hopes for this summer and hopefully, all the ones after.  So we are christening the boat - Hafwen.  Let's just see what's in a name.

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