Carpe Vitam
Carpe is a 28 foot ranger Sailboat built in 1978. She is a very interesting boat with a lot of great qualities for a family cruiser. She has been a good boat to us and has been more than patient while we learned about sailing.
Carpe had no name when we bought her but there was a slight sticker remnant of something that resembled Lorne Dean. We chose Carpe Vitam for its Latin meaning of Cease this Life. Over the years of owning her we have decided on two things.
1. We are not pretentious enough or snobby enough for a boat with a Latin name.
2. The boat name we choose we want to carry with us through future boats. As we have learned through other sailors, and sail blogs that sailors are often referred to by their boats name, and although i have nothing against our flat fishy friend the Carp, that is not the name for us.
As it stands Me and Marn are fun loving happy people with a love for travel, and consider ourselves to be akin to that little traveling Gnome from the commercials. So we have decided upon the Name Gnome Home for all our vessels here on out.
Carpe had no name when we bought her but there was a slight sticker remnant of something that resembled Lorne Dean. We chose Carpe Vitam for its Latin meaning of Cease this Life. Over the years of owning her we have decided on two things.
1. We are not pretentious enough or snobby enough for a boat with a Latin name.
2. The boat name we choose we want to carry with us through future boats. As we have learned through other sailors, and sail blogs that sailors are often referred to by their boats name, and although i have nothing against our flat fishy friend the Carp, that is not the name for us.
As it stands Me and Marn are fun loving happy people with a love for travel, and consider ourselves to be akin to that little traveling Gnome from the commercials. So we have decided upon the Name Gnome Home for all our vessels here on out.