When we bought our boat it was named Nauti Minky, not a name we wanted to keep. But what should we rename it?

We discovered that picking out a name for a boat is harder than naming a child. We wanted the name to be easy to pronounce and spell so we could be easily identified by bridge tenders, lock masters, and other boats. And we didn’t want cutesy, punny names, although there were some good ones out there. We didn’t want anything that revealed that we’re little old retired people, not did we want anything that revealed what our professions had been. (The last thing we want is to find someone sitting on our back deck waiting for us to return so Rich could diagnose someone’s illness or write a prescription.) And I didn’t want the boat named after me. So what to name her?

The boat make is Meridian. Since the prime Meridian is how you measure distance from a starting point (the prime Meridian) and our lives will be measured from this point we decided Prime Meridian was an appropriate name. (There were a number of names I vowed I would not set foot on the boat if it had that name 😄).

So Prime Meridian it is!