Why Muttley?

When we started to think about buying our own dinghy and having mentioned it to other members of the family, the question usually arose as to what we would call the boat.
It hadn't really occured me before someone else asked, but it sets you thinking.

So, what do you call your boat. It should be something that has a meaning to yourselves and isn't too naff perhaps. Although naff is a relative term.

You go through all the trendy, obscure and odd names of course, before settling on something that both of us could relate to.

As an ankle biter, I, and most other kids - largely, maybe because of the lack of choice, enjoyed a cartoon series called Whacky Races. Which included characters such as, Penelope Pitstop, Peter Perfect, The Ant Hill Mob and, the stereotypical villain, Dick Dastardly - who had a sidekick dog called Muttley (notice the two t's).

Like Gromit, in the duo of Wallace and Grommit, the dog frequently had the brains of the team and was regularly put upon by the other.

In itself, this isn't enough of a personal meaning.

When my wife and I were 'courting' we lived either side of a area known as Mutley Plain.

She, living in the nurses accomodation and I living in a bedsit.

So, as a working title, the dinghy is currently referred to as Muttley.

But, in the absense of any naming ceremony as yet, we could still change our minds.