The delicate art of naming your boat

While the inquiry may be effortlessly replied by the lovesick female lead in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," in the realm of boating an answer isn't as easy to get a hold of.

"It was more enthusiastically naming my boat than it was my youngster on the grounds that there's simply quite a lot more to pick from," said Scott Croft, advertising overseer of Boat Owners Association of the United States, or BoatUS.

"There's so many boat names you could never consider naming a person."

Croft said boat proprietors searching for name motivation regularly peruse the BoatUS yearly posting of top boat names and examination with a site include that allows them to plan their own boat names.

For the second year straight, Serenity took the best position on the rundown of Top 10 boat names broadly, trailed via Seas the Day.

BoatUS accumulates the rundown by keeping a count of the boat names most regularly requested from their illustrations administration, however in Annapolis, the cruising capital of the world and home to a large number of powerboats too, a few captains lean toward somewhat greater innovativeness with regards to naming their home away from home.

"We unquestionably see a great deal of exceptionally bizarre, surprising and innovative names," City Harbormaster Flip Walters said.

An incomplete rundown of enrolled boat names gave to The Capital by the Chesapeake Bay Yacht Racing Association showed exactly how smart Annapolitans can be when naming their valued yachts.

Some boat proprietors adopted the smart strategy with names like Yeah Buoy!, Windependent, Slam Duck, Dinosailus, Sea Saw and Lego Sea.

Others considered their callings with boat names like N ' Surgery and Pilot Error.

Names like People Eater, Crime Scene and Elvis, demonstrated fascinating.

We should not fail to remember the boat named after the city, Annapolis One, or the most entertaining boat name on the rundown, Off Like A Prom Dress.

Cindy Fletcher Holden, of Annapolis-based Emergency Boat Lettering, has been painting names on region boats for over 30 years.