in march 2017 the isle of wight council, which operates the cowes floating bridge (a chain ferry across the medina between cowes and east cowes), stated it was open to suggestions from residents for a new name for the vessel after originally registering it as floating bridge no.6. despite council officials ruling out "floaty mcfloatface" as a name, a petition was later created to name the vessel floaty mcfloatface, attracting over 2,000 signatures and even caused the council to rescind its decision to veto the name.