Most vehicles (boats, planes, cars, motorcycles, etc.), firearms, and other dangerously exhilarating items tend to have female names. Not a tradition I started, just observed and can relate too. Example: "I wanna name her Dottie, after my wife. She's a vicious lifesuckin' b*tch from which there's no escape."
Now, I didn't write that script... but I get it.