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Ray Group: Members Posts: 857 Joined: Jan. 2000 Posted: April 26 2006, 17:25 If I bought a boat (sailing yatcht) and wanted to name her after a Mike Oldfield Track - what would the best track name be for this. My initial Choice would be Ommadawn Why - it sounds a bit like female (Oma is German for Grandma) Dawn - for new and for the view. ~Any one think of any others?   Ray   -------------- Looking out over the harbour in Peel....... Back to top

ImAFoolAndImLaughing Group: Members Posts: 536 Joined: Feb. 2006 Posted: April 26 2006, 17:26 You could call it "The Boat Of The Song Men" Tony -------------- "I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and I wasn't tempted to buy one but I was reminded of the fact that I had been avoiding the beach." Back to top

ImAFoolAndImLaughing Group: Members Posts: 536 Joined: Feb. 2006 Posted: April 26 2006, 17:42 Or...(you've set me off thinking, now...) Blue Peter? Discovery? Voyager? Slipstream? Orabidoo? Or... Five Knots Out? Tubular Hulls? I Yacht Rhythm? Tour Us II? MaGalleon (from The Ships Of Distant Earth)? La-meant For Atlantis? The Sunken Forest?! Barge-pipe Guitars? (That's enough puns! Tony -------------- "I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and I wasn't tempted to buy one but I was reminded of the fact that I had been avoiding the beach." Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: April 26 2006, 19:54 maybe QE2... I think that's the best choice. Im so clever   -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: April 26 2006, 20:10 Plan on any one-way-trips across the English Channel? "To France" -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

TubularBelle Group: Members Posts: 1487 Joined: April 2004 Posted: April 26 2006, 20:22 I LOVE Ommadawn, it's perfect. -------------- I hate getting up early. I didn't even realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day! Back to top

Inkanta Group: Admins Posts: 1453 Joined: Feb. 2000 Posted: April 26 2006, 21:09 "Ommadawn" is great, especially if you give it a sea horse mascot. Cliche, maybe, but "Tubular Belle" strikes me as a great name for a sailing ship as well as for a flying one. From QE2, perhaps "Sheba." -------------- "No such thing as destiny; only choices exist." From:  Moongarden's "Solaris." Back to top

Baggiesfaninessex Group: Members Posts: 682 Joined: Mar. 2002 Posted: April 27 2006, 08:39 'Liberation' -------------- “A dog is not intelligent. Never trust an animal that's surprised by its own farts.” - Frank Skinner Back to top

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: April 27 2006, 11:24 Great replies, very amusing some of them! Love this Oldfield sense of humour we all have! What about Opus 1...Sailor's Hornpipe...Sentinel...or simply Platinum? Remember you have to not feel a berk saying it three times every time you have to use the radio! It's one thing to paint an interesting word on the side of the boat, but quite another to ennunciate the same across a crackly radio!! Have done the sailing thing, my other half is very keen + the children, Grandad also. I don't share the same enthusiasm but I understand their need to be in a boat. It can be fun, exhilarating, exhausting & frustrating. ( cold,wet & windy too). But I fear the sea & it's power so do take care. ( we have a little Mirror dinghy & called it Polly after a cat we once had. My husband's not a big cat fan but realised that calling a boat by the name of the cat meant I might decide to have a go at sailing! I also think Ommadawn would make a beautiful name for your boat. I even called my ipod Ommadawn! Enjoy your sailing anyway & let us know what you call the boat!! -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: April 27 2006, 12:02 QE3 -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: April 27 2006, 13:37 if i had a cobra boat like this , i would call it Firefly! -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

The Bell(end) Group: Members Posts: 1051 Joined: July 2005 Posted: April 27 2006, 14:13 Santa Maria -------------- When the night's on fi-ya, do you need love's arms to hold yew? :D Back to top

Nicolas Group: Members Posts: 208 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: April 27 2006, 14:36 out of mind Portsmouth has something to it, but is a bit silly if you have no connection with the city of Portsmouth.   Ommadawn sounds great, but you'd have to spell it every time .  You're from Germany?  Amarok will be easier to spell. It's written as you pronounce it . Back to top

Inkanta Group: Admins Posts: 1453 Joined: Feb. 2000 Posted: April 27 2006, 14:45 Quote (bee @ April 27 2006, 10:24) I also think Ommadawn would make a beautiful name for your boat. I even called my ipod Ommadawn! Reminds me that my car license plate is AMAROK and that I had looked at Ommadawn or Orabidoo but they contained too many letters for the state of MO (that is, Missouri, not Mike Oldfield...though it is some type of cosmic coincidence to live in MO). So...supplemental suggestions are Amarok or Orabidoo. -------------- "No such thing as destiny; only choices exist." From:  Moongarden's "Solaris." Back to top

mink stoles Group: Members Posts: 88 Joined: Aug. 2005 Posted: April 27 2006, 15:44 This is a good game.  Here's my suggestions, Outcast Sailor's Hornpipe Amarok -------------- So if you you feel a little glum, To Hergest Ridge you should come. Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: April 27 2006, 16:45 In the pool? -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

olracUK Group: Members Posts: 1683 Joined: June 2003 Posted: April 27 2006, 17:07 My fave suggestions from the previous posts are Ommadawn and Orabidoo. Both just sound right as names,but also have passages within the music that fits the sailing mood. Forced to come up with my own suggestion for you, and not reverting to bad punnery, i would pick sunjammer. But I think tht's ben done before. Anyway, it's all moot. Boats names, like babies names can be discussed and decided for months, but it isn't until you see them that the right name decides itself. -------------- The answer is 42 - but what is the question? Back to top

Piltdownboy on horseback 22 Group: Members Posts: 1548 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: April 27 2006, 17:08 Prepare yourself for a genius pic by Tubularman, with mikes boat -------------- "And now we're going to play Platinum!" Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: April 27 2006, 17:10 like Stefan said,  here is mike's boat! -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Piltdownboy on horseback 22 Group: Members Posts: 1548 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: April 27 2006, 17:11 oh, by the way: I would call it (the boat) 'Boat' not too original, but it got a nice feel to it -------------- "And now we're going to play Platinum!" Back to top

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