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Anyone know why Billy Joel called his fictitious boat the Downeaster Alexa? As far as I can tell, all Downeasters (made by Down East Yachts) were cruising vessels. Or was it a reference to Down East, an geographical location in New England. And who was Alexa?

--Legis (talk - contributions) 15:02, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Alexa is Billy Joel's daughter. AJD 16:59, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Recent Move to The Downeaster 'Alexa

Are you sure that shouldn't be The Downeaster 'Alexa', like it says on the album cover? 'Alexa just looks wrong. AJD 16:59, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Moved it. It was probably a failed move to remove the 's on both sides. We could alternatively also move it back to using two 's... Ingolfson 08:46, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So, wait a minute. What's the official title of the song? CarpetCrawler (talk) 07:30, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like this has been stagnant for a while...This needs to be fixed. Somebody fix it.