What's in a name?

2/9/06: This has been a long and stressful week - tomorrow we close on the purchase of our beautiful new boat. She is a 1990 Caliber 38. I never thought that we would own such a magnificent vessel. Her name presently is Semper Fi. Her current owner, Les, is a marine (you probably guessed that) and was visibly relieved to hear that we were not keeping her current name since he already was using it for the new boat. In the past, we have always named our boats after songs: Jolly Mon, Cool Change. But this boat is different and we knew we had to come up with something very befitting of her. Her lines are refined and she is quite unassuming. A masculine name definitely would not do. Chris and I both really liked the name Lullaby, but after learning of the unfortunate sinking of a similarly named Gozzard, we decided to pass on that name. Too many other omens to worry about out there - didn't need to add another to the list. In keeping with the Lullaby theme, I Googled for "German Lullaby" seeing as how our German heritage runs strong in both of our lines. The Google search led me to "La Le Lu" - the title of a German lullaby about the man on the moon watching over baby. Seemed appropriate enough. We gave it the VHF hail test (ie "This is sailing vessel LaLeLu, sailing vessel LaLeLu, over"), to confirm that it would be acceptable in practical application, and agreed it would do just fine. Below are the lyrics to our boat's name sake:

La Le Lu
Only the man in the moon is looking
When the little babies sleep
So go to sleep, too.
La Le Lu
Two shoes are in front of the bed
And they are exactly as tired
Baby, as you.
Then comes the Sandman
He walks quietly in the house
Giving out his dreams
The most beautiful to you.
La Le Lu
Only the man in the moon is looking
When the little babies sleep
So go to sleep, too.