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Wake on the water as the hull cuts through it under full sails.  But also: Falco peregrinus, a bird of prey in the family Falconidae.

Artist: Juan V.

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The flag

Peregrinus is legally a British ship.   At the time we bought her, no other registered flag was available to us that would make it easy for Peregrinus to travel in and out of the United States.  So after some paperwork, she was registered in the Virgin Islands, and she either flies the Red Duster undefaced or defaced with the coat of arms of the Virgin Islands.

In addition to meeting the laws of the countries on whose waters she navigates, Peregrinus must meet the UK's Merchant Shipping Act of 1995 as well as the VI's Merchant Shipping Act of 2001.  Fortunately, these two agree in all matters of substance!

The picture we took in Quidi Vidi, Newfoundland, in September 2013.

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Going around the fields for a name

Dr. David Butterfield,  of Queen's College, was our consultant in the search for the name for Peregrinus.  We initially proposed a series of ideas and impressions on what the name should mean to us and to our friends; Dr. Butterfield provided a document with dozens of great proposals in classic Latin and Greek.

Most of the proposed names we thought difficult to pronounce or already taken.  For example, Latin Vector (voyager), Maria (seas), Nauta (sailor); or their Greek equivalents Emporos, Thalassae, Nautilos.

But one name caught our fancy: Peregrinator, Latin for traveler.  One objection we had was, as we wrote the professor: «Unhappily, we have to deal with the realities of popular culture and until the generation that watched the films of Mr. Schwarzenegger passes away, others would have imputed the nickname Terminator   to our ship».

Using his proposal as basis, we went for Peregrinus, Latin for foreigner, and ultimately from greek: someone who goes around the fields.   περί - peri, like periphery or perimeter and ἀγρός - agrós, like agriculture.

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