Renaming a boat

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BillyK

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I got a new to me boat and need to change the name. I know about the superstition and bad luck mumbo jumbo, but I'm not sure if I want to take any chances. What if anything have you done when renaming a boat, and the results.

Thanks.

Billy K.
 
Any bad luck I had was more likely attributable to having named the boat, "Tyche". :)

Next time, I might choose something safer, such as, "presto agitato".
 
I didn't do it. Didn't do it with any of boats.
Its superstition for sure
I look at all my boats I have owned and it never mattered, I still had bad luck with my last brand new boat that was never named prior to me owning.
 
We're actually doing a ceremony this weekend. I didn't follow the superstitions and ceremonies to a "T", but we're doing it anyway because...well, why not, it will be a fun way to get together and go out on the boat with our dock friends!
 
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Originally posted by JeffR

We're actually doing a ceremony this weekend. I didn't follow the superstitions and ceremonies to a "T", but we're doing it anyway because...well, why not, it will be a fun way to get together and go out on the boat with our dock friends!

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I'm with Jeff. Why not do it? Good booze, entreaties to Poseidon/Neptune, pomp and ceremony... and a nod to all the ancient mariners who did it with nothing but balls.

Sounds like a fun time to me.
 
I didn't do when I first changed the name on my current boat. I had all kinds of problems. Finally, I did the ceremony, and ten years later, knock wood, still no major problems.

Might just be a coincidence, but from then on I always follow the ancient mariners.
 
Renamed my current boat, it was a lot of fun and thanks heavens, knock on wood. As a matter of fact, you and Marie did the graphics, LOL

-Steve
 
Do the ceremony. What have you got to lose, except a few dollars from your wallet entertaining your friends.







If you don't do it and something goes wrong . . . . . well just sayin'
 
I will say this, when we named BOTH of our boats we deviated just a little bit, we didn't use champagne, we used Blue Point beer :)

--Steve
 
Pete if you are every in the area stop by and say hello I'm on Blue dock.
 
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Originally posted by PeteMrrs

Do the ceremony. What have you got to lose, except a few dollars from your wallet entertaining your friends.

If you don't do it and something goes wrong . . . . . well just sayin'

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That's what I was thinking except I didn't want to be the guy on the bow of a boat doing something nutty for nothing. Good points all.

Thanks,

Billy K.
 
Billy;

The key is to get all of your guest drinking "a little" before you step out onto the bow, by then you are no nuttier than the rest of them.
 
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