It has been 24 years that our boat has been named ”Gone With The Wind”. It is a literal translation and had nothing to do with the novel or the movie. Actually the name came from our son Chris who was 9 years old at the time we purchased our first Catalina. That boat was a 1984 Catalina 30 which we used for the next 18 years. We were in Boothbay Harbor, ME one year when Chris took off immediately when we landed, and challenged another boat owner from Massachusetts who had the same name. How dare they use that name he muttered as he launched the dingy. I had noticed the boat on the way in and they had named their dingy Scarlett, so I had guessed that they were fond of the movie or the novel. Chris came back after a short while still discouraged that he could not convince them to change their name but he did have a nice conversation with them. There was a period, when Chris got older and I had purchased a Sea Ray power boat for the lake, that he wanted to change the name. He thought “Passing Gas“ would be a great name for the Sea Ray and “Passing Wind” would be a wonderful change for GWTW. Well neither happened, as long as his mother had a part in the decision! We struggled for a short while for a name when we purchased our Catalina 36 (Hull # 1056) a 1990 MkI, which originally was owned by a couple from Connecticut who were relocating to Cape Cod, and had named the boat Benares. We knew that name had no meaning to us. After consideration we decided “Gone With The Wind” was the name everyone knew us as. It seemed to be the perfect and logical fit. Did not even add a “Too, ll, or 2.