Anyone superstitious about renaming a used boat?
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Topic: Anyone superstitious about renaming a used boat?
Posted By: FizFisho
Subject: Anyone superstitious about renaming a used boat?
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2017 at 10:59am
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Ive found many a beautiful boat at a good price with the most dorky names known to man, simple rename them. I think the whole renaming superstition is a bit like the urban legend that snapper cant be caught on snapper, which is total bollox. Anyone else renamed a boat or 2?
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Posted By: MB
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2017 at 11:36am
| no, because i haven't owned a boat yet, just kayaks and a jet ski, but i wouldn't hesitate to rename one. it's like the banana thing, a bit of fun, but really? what a load of old bollocks. |
Posted By: Daniel K
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2017 at 12:08pm
| No, of course not. Superstitions are inherently stupid. There is no scientific and logical reason to them. They belong to an age when things couldn't be explained through empirical examinations. Banana on a boat will restrict your catch rate? Changing a boat name will make fish think twice before biting? Black cat = bad luck? Mirror smashing is bad luck? How? In what world would these things have actual lived implications upon one's life. Maybe a bit of fun, but I would be troubled to find that someone actually believed such things. |
Posted By: Don18025
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2017 at 3:14pm
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Never ever had this problem. So long as the appropriate renaming ceremony is held. Here are some possibilities for you; http://www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/rename.htm http://www.bluewatersailing.com/documents/renamingceremony.pdf http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2007/04/11/hal-burchard-boat-renaming-ceremony/ They all will provide good reading for you. Plus provide you with endless possibilities. I remember in my sailing days, the skipper turned up and said the boat has a new name - it incorporated the name of the sponsor and would appear on the new spinnaker. No ceremony, get on with the sailing boys......the sponsors money took all the risks out of it real quick.
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Posted By: sid fishus
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2017 at 4:20pm
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Its all bit of fun most of these superstitions.. various ceremonies available for renaming things appropriately with a bit of a laugh, involving weeing in the bilges etc etc... or just rename it :) Hated my current boat name when bought it, but has grown on me and won't change it now. ------------- I always tell the truth about things that never happened |
Posted By: Steps
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2017 at 4:52pm
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Its all bit of fun most of these superstitions.. various ceremonies
available for renaming things appropriately with a bit of a laugh,
involving weeing in the bilges etc etc... Pretty well sums it all up.. Tradition/ superstition, what ever one wants to call it, we followed was sold the name..for a $ and then regist new name at the boat club, Coast guard /VHF etc...and new signs a few name decals on the side later |
Posted By: Mr Moritz
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2017 at 5:01pm
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Didn't change my boat's name. Probably because I couldn't be bothered. |
Posted By: Waihime
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2017 at 6:23pm
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As a sign writer I can assure you nothing adverse will happen to you if you change your boat name. To the contrary, you will in fact be likely blessed with great fortune. In fact it should be compulsory to change your boat name at least 4 times every year!! 
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Posted By: bazza
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2017 at 6:59pm
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I consider myself in no way to be superstitious, to the slightest degree. Nevertheless see no need to tempt fate, so bananas on my boat are not welcome when going fishing. Go figure ... however suspect there are others reluctant to admit doing likewise! ------------- When you cry, feel pain or sadness, no one notices your sorrow .... BUT fart just ONE time !!!!!!!!!!! |
Posted By: pjc
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2017 at 7:04pm
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to do it properly,you need to sacrifice a virgin,but there lies the problem? ------------- Sex at 58.Lucky I live at 56 |
Posted By: bazza
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2017 at 7:12pm
I'm still available Paul .... will cost you tho !
------------- When you cry, feel pain or sadness, no one notices your sorrow .... BUT fart just ONE time !!!!!!!!!!! |
pjc wrote:Posted By: Bigfishbob
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2017 at 7:13pm
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Yep I need a stamp for this... Make the new name, rip the old one off, put the new one on, go Fishing! You have to go fishing within a week of doing it, other wise you're gonna get fishing withdrawal symptoms which are really bad juju! ------------- www.waikatosportfishing.co.nz |
Posted By: Catchelot
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2017 at 7:36pm
Warships do it all the time when they sell/upgrade/pass on to the Colonials and some of those have been well respected
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Posted By: ofthesea
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2017 at 10:44pm
| Do it. If bad luck kicks in and you can't catch fish any more at least you can blame the new boat name |
Posted By: Betty Boop
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2017 at 11:34pm
I did it.......I'm not concerned if "Betty Boop" goes down on me  ------------- Last week I joined an Anti-Social support group........They won't talk to me! Papamoa fi-Glass Viscount |
Posted By: notalloyit
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2017 at 3:53pm
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Was a very strong superstition / tradition when I started offshore sailing in Keelers, partly I presume as quite a few of the skippers and crew were ex navy. there were certain rituals they had, also the same applied to stepping a mast or re stepping one, always had to have a gold coin underneath when stepped. Probably all bull**** but was part of the era, and the mystique of sailing. Mind you the first Large yacht I crewed, sailed on, was built in 1897 and was gaff rigged and all manila ropes with blocks and belaying pins rather than winches. You earned a beer after a days sailing. ------------- BNS Design & Print LTD 0800 733 000 for all printing needs, special rates for website members. Free freight NZ wide. |
Posted By: Steps
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2017 at 4:28pm
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always had to have a gold coin underneath when stepped. That is why we sold the old name of our boat for a dollar.. a dollar 'gold coin' Post above.. Had forgotten that part of the superst.... sorry , enlightened times now 'Tradition' |
Posted By: Big Manly Yaka
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2017 at 5:34pm
| Its bad luck to be superstitious .... |
Posted By: smudge
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2017 at 6:33pm
now THAT is a great quote  ------------- Best gurnard fisherman in my street |
Posted By: smudge
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2017 at 6:44pm
Classic!A great line there ------------- Best gurnard fisherman in my street |
Posted By: FizFisho
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2017 at 7:08pm
Thats a cracker hahaha. I eat bananas on the boat too, best easy snack going around outside some fresh kina and a beer. If the boat has a good name I usually dont bother.
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