Hi All,
If I ever see another "Amazing Grace" I'll scream.  There are 6 in our
marina alone!  Not that it is a bad name, just to many of them around.
Anyway, make the name have some meaning.  When we purchased our current
boat, 6th, we have owned.  We choose the name "Sobre El Mar"  which is
spanish for "over the sea".  My wife teaches Spanish and obviously we want to
be aboard the boat on the sea.
I have always tried for unusual names that are not duplicated.  Another
example was a little racing sailboat we owned years ago, an Olson 30, we
called her "Hoodlum". She was quick, and we stole our share of hardware on
the race courses here in So. Calif. Drove all the big money ocean racers
crazy!
My Dad's boat is "Maitairoa" which is Tahitian for "really great".
That's my 2 cents on the subject.

Capt. Mike Schachter
aboard Sobre El Mar, DeFever 55' raised pilot house trawler.

Here's my boat name story:
In the early eighties, I wanted to get back on the water (my uncle got
me hooked when I was a kid), and I bought a 20' outboard cuddy for messing
around on the bay. Now my wife Annie would come down to the boat maybe once
a month, would not spend the night, and while she enjoyed herself she would
not be back for another month. Well I said to myself that I either had to
get Annie into boating or give it up (heaven forbid). I thought if I bought
a little larger boat with a reasonable cabin and an enclosed head she might
like it more.
I was thinking along the lines of a late seventies 28' Silverton -
flybridge, reasonable cabin, single inboard.
Annie got very enthusiastic about this and started scouring all of the
boat ads. She came to me with an ad for a 26 Carver. I hemmed and
hawed -"It's an I/O, I'm looking for an inboard" - "It's got an 8'6" beam,
it's going to be very tender"-
"It's in Long Island, I don't want to go to Long Island". Everything I said
was met with "Let's go see".
Now the whole point was to get Annie into boatng so off we went. The
boat was just what I thiught it was, but it was in nice shape. I was
unimpressed - Annie loved it. Now remember what the point was, I bought the
boat. Annie says lets' buy this boat, so the name was Annie Sez.
She was down every weekend after that, and loved it. A few years later,
with the end of the 80's bull market, and plummeting used boat prices, we
were ready for what I wanted - and by now Annie wanted it too - a trawler.
We bought a 1988 34 Marine Trader in 1990 - Annie Sez Too.
Annie is now the Admiral, I just drive and maintain the boat. She can
run it, she's pretty good at docking it (and getting better), and if I'm
docking she can do the line handeling  with just a small discussion about
what I plan to do before we enter. And she can't wait to move to full time
liveaboard/cruise (on a larger trawler).
Let me tell you something - I'm a happy (and lucky) guy.

Walt (and Annie) Konieczko
Annie Sez Too    34 Marine Trader
Lanoka Harbor, NJ