Last year, Buffalo Bayou Partnership’s bubblegum-pink skimmer boat, the Mighty Tidy, capsized during Hurricane Ike. The Partnership recently purchased a a new “TrashCat” brand boat, a type of vessel specially designed to skim floating debris from the waters of Buffalo Bayou.
It’s bad luck to have a boat without a name, so to celebrate its arrival, they’re asking for the public’s help in choosing a fitting moniker. From BBP:
The most environmentally and creatively inspired name for the skimmer boat will be selected as the winning name.The winner of the boat naming contest will receive a complimentary chartered pontoon boat trip aboard BBP’s The Osprey, for you and your 20 guests.
Six years ago, The Mighty Tidy was named by a second grader from Lamkin Elementary. Hair Balls thinks we’re smarter than a second grader, so here are some of the names we’ve thought up:
USS Dookie
The Flying Sludgeman
The Garbarge
The Poop Sloop
USS Detritus
To enter the Name that Skimmer Boat Contest, send your suggested boat
name, your name, mailing address and e-mail address to
info@buffalobayou.org. Readers, add your names in the comments.
This article appears in Oct 8-14, 2009.
