Re: [Paddlewise] Naming your boat

At 10:55 AM 3/19/01 -0800, Elias Ross wrote:
>Who here has named their kayak?
>
>I know it is a tradition for large ships to be named, but I know that
>some owners of dingies name their craft.  I haven't heard about or seen
>a named kayak, but I know there are people who are especially fond of
>their own boat.  How is the experience of owning a large boat versus a
>small one different?  What leads one to name something perhaps has to do
>something with price or personal investment.  Or uniqueness.  But, I
>know people who name their cars, although they are far from unique.

There is also the traditionalist view that a kayak should *not* be
named.  The reasoning goes like this.  When the inuit built their
skin-on-frame kayaks they were very personal. They relied on their
craft for hunting and thus their survival.  In a sense, the kayak
was part of them.  Giving it a name made it a separate entity.


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