Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mr. Brick wrote: >You can name a boat anything, but you have to refer to it as "she", not "he". In English! In French, the word boat, I understand, has masculine gender and boats are more typically given masculine names. A very famous 40 foot yacht formerly owned by globe circling sailor and author Bernard Moitessier was named "Joshua," named after Canadian/American Slocum, first person to circumnavigate single handed, a couple decades before the first Leica. Eric the Red is also name of a boat, and book of the same name, built on a shoestring and sporting a chinese LUG rig. See, all sorts of coincidences going on. Donal __________ Donal Philby San Diego www.donalphilby.com