Tell Us Your Transom Tale!

Every boat name has a story, and we’d love to hear yours! Share the inspiration, memory, adventure, person, place, or special meaning behind your boat’s name. Whether it’s funny, sentimental, historic, or deeply personal, your story could be featured by Transom Tales and shared with fellow boating enthusiasts around the world.

• Please keep your story to 350 words or less.
• Include your name, boat’s name, and hometown.
• Photos are encouraged, but not required.
• Stories may be lightly edited for grammar, spelling, length, and clarity while preserving your original meaning.
• Not every submission is guaranteed to be published.

By submitting your story, photos, or other materials to Transom Tales, you confirm that the content is yours or that you have permission to share it. You give Transom Tales permission to publish, reproduce, edit, and share your submission, including accompanying photos, on our website, social media, promotional materials, and other media formats.

You retain ownership of your original content. Transom Tales may make reasonable edits for length, grammar, spelling, clarity, or formatting while preserving the meaning and spirit of your story. Submission does not guarantee publication, and Transom Tales reserves the right to decline, edit, or remove submitted content.

Please do not submit confidential, defamatory, copyrighted, or other material that you do not have permission to share.