Boat Owners: It could be time to buy new registration decals

Summer boating season ending is just around the corner, and so is the deadline for renewing boat and watercraft registration decals. In Kentucky, all boat registrations expire in May for the following year.

In February, owners of boats and watercraft received a postcard notifying them that the Department of Licensing (DOL) will no longer send paper renewal reminders, as funding for printing and mailing these reminders has been eliminated. The postcard encouraged owners to sign up online at https://drive.ky.gov/Vehicles/Pages/Boats.aspx to receive renewal reminders via email.

DOL will send email renewal reminders in May to those who have registered for this service. To receive a reminder, boat owners must sign up on the DOL website no later than May. Those who sign up after this deadline will not receive a renewal reminder until the following year.

Boat registrations can be renewed online or in person at a local vehicle licensing office. For those opting to renew in person, please ensure to note the registration number located on the bow of the boat or watercraft, as this information will be needed at the office.

August 2023 Back to School Boat Names

Below is this month pick from Pontoonopedia.com!


  • Back O’ The Bus
  • Bad Apple
  • Bad Attendance Record
  • Best Student
  • Chalk It Up
  • Class Act
  • Class Clown
  • Extra Study Time
  • Eye’s Forward
  • Favorite Student
  • Field Trip
  • Fishical Education
  • Fishing School
  • Graduation Balls
  • Graduation Daze
  • Haul Pass
  • Home Time
  • Home Work
  • Hull Pass
  • In Detention
  • My Recess
  • No Deadlines
  • No Test Today
  • Old School
  • On Detention
  • Playin’ Hooky
  • Principal Residence
  • Principal’s Office
  • S-Cool Skipper
  • Saved by the Bell
  • School Dance
  • School Holidays
  • School of Fish
  • School’s Out
  • School’s Out for Summer
  • Science Project
  • Sea Class
  • Sea Grade
  • Student of the Seas
  • Summer School
  • Teacher’s Pet
  • Temper Tantrum
  • Too Hot For Teacher
  • Water Desk

May 2023 Boat Name Ideas

Below is this month pick from SkyAboveUs.com!


InsufferableJadedJafarJinx Frost
Knight Of The CaribbeanKnot the MamaLadies FirstLament Configuration
Last Time I Was HereMaelstrom AvengerLuciaLucifer
Mail Order BrideMoody DivaMore Than EnoughMr. Joshua
Mystic of TimeNight Time In MiamiNikitaNina Simone
Not So HappyOdds Are CosmicKissy SuzukiInstigator
Patient ZeroPenny LottsPillar of AutumnPopeye
Quest JetterRacing the DesertReady for the DayTop of the Hour
Heart of the DragonRooster CruiserSallie RodeoSalty Dog
PropsShock WaveSix Feet UnderSky’s the Limit
Soon To Be DeadSounds of the NightRock BottomStar of the Runway
Starry IceSuicide BlondeTaboo WaysThe Funk
Paradise PirateUnderdogSomething BetterUptown Girl
Valiant WatersTycoonVertigoViking God
Voyager TemplarWandering CometWater HorseWeatherly
Whisky VenomHoney PassionsWhite Satin KnightWicked Witch of the North
Will of ZeusWind GypsyWendigo In The WindWindsor Vast
Zero to HeroWoodland FairyWet LadyXena
Yankee DogYellow WhaleZen RichZero Game
Zodiac PiscesZombie RefugeZenysisVerbana
Sector 7Voodoo VixenEscalationBig Top

Submarine Day, March 17th

This holiday has been celebrated every March 17th for God knows how long. It is this day that it hails as a day for the boat commonly called a “Sub.” For military boats, Submarine day is always celebrated April 11th as it was documented since the 1900. Perhaps March 17th is for the hero of the Subs?

You can celebrate by getting your boat ready for the water those still in cold weather. We are all about boating so we are giving away free shipping until March 20th regardless of your purchase amount. Here’s your coupon code: subdayxo.

February 2023 Boat Names Idea

Below are this month boat names for you to take your pick!

  • Seaduction
  • For Reels
  • Yachts All Folks
  • Bacon in the Sun
  • Best Sailection
  • Legacy
  • Miss Conduct
  • Alotta Ocean
  • Vamoose
  • Row V. Wave
  • Dreadnought
  • Best of Boat Worlds
  • Dirty Oar
  • Ships n’ Giggles
  • The Court Ship
  • Tumeric
  • Moor Often Than Knot
  • Sea Senora
  • Life is Good
  • Grace to Glory
  • Big Nauti
  • B-Yacht’ch
  • Inversion of the Curve
  • Seas the Day
  • Fandango
  • Yada Yachta
  • The Zartan
  • Chaste
  • All Spice
  • Arm Candy
  • Working Girl
  • Inside Fast
  • Wild Bill
  • Capers
  • Prosperity
  • Snake Eyes
  • Devlin
  • Corona
  • Miami MVP
  • Bad Attitude
  • Second Glance
  • Double Up
  • Titanic II
  • Seasick
  • Jawesome
  • Sick and Tide
  • Ship-faced
  • Dock-topus
  • Shelly
  • New Kid on the Dock
  • Eat Cray Love
  • Lady Kriller
  • American Buoy
  • In Too Deep
  • Riptide
  • Nausea
  • Resplendent
  • Oceania
  • Flo
  • Alexandrite
  • Ashray
  • Beowulf
  • Icarus
  • Eurydice
  • Isolde
  • Odysseus
  • Scylla
  • Steadfast
  • Nessie
  • Reel Love
  • The Codfather
  • Yellowtail
  • Night Trawler
  • Fishing for Compliments
  • Lady Kriller
  • Fishy Business
  • Fish Tank
  • Misty
  • All Aboard
  • Pearl
  • Fishin Impossible

January 2023 Boat Name Ideas

Below are this month boat names for you to take your pick!

  • Aboat Time
  • Amazing Grace
  • Below Deck
  • Blue Miracle
  • Carpe Diem
  • Catalina Wine Cruiser
  • Changes in Latitudes
  • Endless Summer
  • Fin & Tonic
  • Fishy Business
  • Flying Dutchman
  • Gone Fishing
  • Good Vibrations
  • Happy Hour
  • In a Meeting
  • Island Girl
  • Joan’s Ark
  • Jolly Roger
  • Kids Inheritance
  • Knot Working
  • Lady in Red
  • Liquid Asset
  • Maverick
  • Neptune
  • One Moor Time
  • Out of Office
  • Overboard
  • Pier Pressure
  • Purple Rain
  • Reel Therapy
  • Rest A Shore
  • Rock the Boat
  • Sea-Batical
  • Seas the Day
  • Serenity
  • She Got the House
  • Skipper’s Girl
  • Southern Belle
  • The Codfather
  • The Finest Hours
  • The Kraken
  • The Lady of the Lake
  • Weekend Edition
  • What’s Up Dock?
  • 5 O’clock Somewhere
  • Dreamboat
  • Arm Candy
  • Due South
  • Mariposa
  • Cover Girl

August 2022 Boat Name Ideas

Below are this month boat names for you to take your pick!

Bottom Feeder

Pier Pressure

Breaking Bass

Tide Pool

Rail Banger

Wish You Were Her

Presidential DeBait

Fishers of Men

Carpe Diem

Sea Addicts Anonymous

Seas the Day

Prawn Shop

Fishing for Compliments

Shakespeare Fishing

Off the Hook

Sea King Adventure

Tide Down

Nothing But Net

Ship Happens

Mr. Trawley

Docked Pay

Docked Up

A Salt Weapon

Seas the Moment

Lega-sea

Dockter Sea

The Codfather

Ecsta-sea

Court Salmons

Knot Your Boat

Fishing Nemo

Smoke on the Water

Knot for Sail

Boat to Be Wild

Drifters

Kraken

S.S. Riptide

Ankle Buster

Wicked Fishin’

Ultramarine

Lochness

Stargazer

Hot Knots

Sea Hawk

Sea Dancer

Endless Summer

Dawn Patrol

Impact Zone

Cannonball

Devil Wind

Wave Rider

Twisted Reel

Tigershark

Swallow Tail

Leviathan

Endless Blue

Ships Ahoy

Decked Out

Sea For Yourself

Speedo Deck

Beach Leech

On the Docks

Don’t Need Roads

Pedro for President

Never Say Die

Wheezin’ The Juice

Rufio, Rufio, Ru-fi-O

88 MPH

Neverending Story

Flux Capacitor

Quit Playing With Your Dinghy

Clever Girl

Atreyu

Big Pile of Ship

Hey McFly

Dinosaur Skirt

Favorite Deputy

Spare No Expense

To Infinity

Ya Filthy Animal

Little Infinity

Killin’ Me, Smalls

Mom’s Basement

High Quality H2O

Bigger Boat

Circle of Life

Oh Fudge!

Glass Case of Emotion

Strange Little Man

Center for Ants

Marty Moose

Yer a Wizard

Drawn That Way

Tina You Fat Lard

Wax On, Wax Off

Heck Yes!

Make Like a Tree

Nunchuck Skills

A Delicious Bass

Winchester

Legacy

Elizabethan

The Olympia

S.S. Admiral

Atlas

Exodus

Danube

The Sapphire

Magnolia

Liberty

Oasis

Peridot

Edinburgh

S.S. Niagra

Buckingham

The Atlantis

The Duke

Titus

Duchess

Atlantic Pearl

Aristocrat

Windsor

Baron

The Icelandic

May 2022 Boat Name Ideas

Below are this month boat names for you to take your pick!

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Krillworx
Davisbank
Vaderpodcast
Goofyhive
trapstom
Halunited
Kinglodge
Cloverscribe
flowengine
Knighttennis
Popeyereporter
Porpiseplaces
solutudela
Aslanson
Tigerboxes
covewear
Anemoneam
mambaworth
Dravawings
Arkasasbro
aplombfuel
glacierfootball
codlane
Delawarespec
cumluspunch
Silvertipcorporation
capefoundry
Furosacatalog
Nemanpr
Coralglobal
jetdating
craftdashboard
Balticuniverse
Beaufortaware
Targaryenthreads
oceanru
bondins
Taimatprize
normanface
Columbiaadvance
Basssnet
coastdotcom
Scyllavault
Archipelagoop

Beastdisc
MThouses
keel authority
jiggingcharge
Hammerheadranking
Mandahorse
lagoonbill
Haitiread
Floatslimited
Dreamza
Alabamadir
galescout
Yodaking
Belugarise
Doomuber
lagoonwell
Long beachyoke
Rhinefive
Ebroween
Celticpeer
capebaby
Kaverihail
Proteushelp
Cloverfree
fantasytiny
Ryderpeak
Indusstir
Fjordsure
Californiauhuh
Loirefull
Bullfare
Wabashfeat
bayduty
Columbiaplay
Icarianwall
saillife
Yellowwows
zypherwish
Pegasuswork
Furosapoof
Keyser Sozepeps
Sailwarm
tempestweed

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March 2022 Boat Name Ideas

Below are this month boat names for you to take your pick!

Mean Whisperer
River Storm
Sudden Hurricane
Bad Breeze
Apparent Climate
Apparent Wind
Sudden Atmosphere
River Drifter
You Gust
Deep Devocean
Knot Talking
Lagoon Cruiser
Exodus III
Blue Water
Instrumental
Sedation
Second Chance
Mast Hysteria
Blew Inn
Gunsmoke
Wandrin’ Star
Geneva
Sea Apple
Prime II
Snafu
Laura
Pass N’ Wind
Tail Chaser
Haulin’ Ass
Fleeting Funds
Island Hunter
Mirage
Alchemy
North Wind
Grand Marnier
After Fifty
Dream Catcher
White Bird
Feather In The Wind
Exodus
September Winds
Free Wind
Artsea
Impact
Kick ‘N’ Back
Playtime II
All The Time
Banshee
Nauti Dream
Good Karma
Angelfish
Knot At Work
Quiet Rush

Impromptu
Sweetie Pie
Sea Trooper
Deep Heart
Wind Song III
Jaguar
Climax
Girls Love Diamonds
Psyche
The Argus
Bait Me
Resilient
Wind Blown
Four Reasons
Bixby
A Bad Habit
Playing Hookie
Good Time
Being Nauti
Almost Done
Moody Blues
Rhythm & Blues
Too Far Out
Sea Smile
Aimee Bee
Gargoyle
Take Luck
Dock & Wine
Isotope
Be Easy
Fortune Hunter
Island Queen
Omega II
Blue Angel
Horizon Hunter
Marigold
Absolutely Screwed
The Wanderer
Only Child
New Year
Long Time Gone
Relapse
Off Call
Ocean Dream
Kamikaze
Procrastination
Blue Magic
Yacht In The Sea
Soul Mate