One of my sailboat partners is antsy to change the name of our boat from Notorious to Horizen. Peter Hallett brought a hair dryer to the marina the other day to warm up the press-on letters on the stern for easy removal. He removed the boat’s former port of call, the first two letters and the last two letters.
Result: Torio, which was one of the suggested new names before we decided on Horizen.
It actually doesn’t look bad. But what the heck does it mean?
In Italian and Spanish, Torio translates to thorium and is defined as a “grayish-white, lustrous, somewhat ductile and malleable, radioactive metallic element present in monazite.”
Torio/thorium is used as a source of nuclear energy, as a coating on sun-lamp and vacuum-tube filament coatings, and in alloys. Its chemical symbol is Th.
Torio is also an anti-cholesterol drug from Unison Laboratories whose generic name is Simvastatin.
I always knew that sailing was good for my health.
