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If you found this blog via a link from a cruising site ~ we did cruise Mexico on our Ocean 49 cat for a season. See the first text box on the right for links to our preparations, trip down Baja, life in Mexico, cruising and trip back up to SoCal. Unfortunately we are back to the grind in the USA...

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Boat Renaming Ceremonies or Burning a Monkey on the Foredeck

All boaters know of the superstitions of re-naming a boat.
It's bad luck!
The weather gawds are going to get you.
You will sink.
You will spontaneously combust.
Your boat will disentegrate within 15 minutes.

Sometimes we have to supercede the superstitions.
Go with the flow.
Do a dance.
Waste some champagne.
Hire a preacher to bless the boat.
Burn a monkey on the foredeck.

Sometimes boats do have to be re-named.
Well, actually a lot of times.
Take for example the following boat names we have seen:
"Salty Johnson"
"Wet Dream"
"Circumdecision"
"Too Sassy"
"Sail Bad the Sinner"
"Breaking Wind"

Remember, someday you might have to say this name in a bit of a panic to either Vessel Assist or gawd forbid, the Coast Guard!
You want the Coast Guard to take you seriously.
You don't want them to start laughing when you say "Makin' Luff".
Try saying "Hot Ruddered Bum" three times.
Or requesting help over the SSB radio by saying "My Assiss Dragon".

Remember when cruising, these boat names actually become your last name.
Forever...
We are still known to some people as "The Thistles"...
and we haven't even owned that boat for the last six years!

Speaking of "Thistle"...
Her ex-name was removed within 15 minutes of pulling into our slip.
Yep, the day we purchased the boat!
I felt by NOT changing the boat it would be bad luck.
Really.
I was not going to leave the harbor in a boat named "Rogue Wave".
In fact, I didn't even go on the seatrial (but not for that reason).
A ceremony?
Not this time.
Not necessary.
A simple scrape off of the name and slap on a new one.
Twelve years of better luck.

Next boat.
"Two Dolphins"
Ugh.
Boring!
A ceremony?
This time it was the simple "Blue Tape" ceremony.
Tape over the old name.
Tape on the new name.Worked for us.
For about two weeks...

Until we got our real name.








Almost seven years of good luck.

So far...






Fast forward a few years to Dave and Cherryl's new boat.
The boat that replaced "Thistle".
The boat that was named "U.S. Mama Duck".
Okay...
Back to wanting the Coasties to take you seriously.
Back to having to be able to say it three times in a row over SSB or VHF radio.
"U.S. Mama Duck, U.S. Mama Duck, U.S. Mama oh good lord Duck"
Uh yeah, not going to happen.
Back to it becoming your last name.
"Hi, we are Dave and Cherryl U.S. Mama Duck".
Uh thinking that wasn't going to happen either.
So a New Year's Eve ceremony was in order to officially christen the Duck to "Shinola" "Shining Star".

First a toast.Well, actually several.
I did hear some mumbling from the guests about not realizing the ceremony was going to be a drinking game...

Then a smash!Then some got smashed.
No foredeck dancing.
No preacher's blessing.
No monkey burning necessary.
Just simple ceremonies all in our own individual ways.

68 comments:

"Seattle" Heather said...

I couldn't help but laugh at this post. thanks! The names are pretty crazy out there.

Doug and Carla Scott said...

We changed our boat name twice 10 years ago. Hopefully, we did all of the right things and our good luck will continue for another 10 years!

Jim and Heather on Meerkat said...

Yeah SeaHeather ~ this should make you laugh, because your boyfriend re-names his boat every 60 days!
"Moondance"... hmmmm kind of wondering what your other name was? Smiley? Happy? What? You two don't need luck ~ you make your own and it's the best!

Anonymous said...

Hey some of us still miss NUKI NUKI!!!!!! It still comes back out there on the VHF every now and then like a ghost!

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