[alberg30] Re: Considering Purchase

[Jackie E. Thomas]

From: "Jackie E. Thomas" <JThomas at lombard.ca>



Hi,  what I heard was that at some point during your renaming ceremony you
have to sail backwards over the old name.  Apparently somewhere on the net
there is a site that describes the full ceremony but I have forgotten where
it is or what it was called.

On my boat I truncated the original name of Contrary Wind down to Contrary
(the owner wanted to rename his new boat CW) but I did a full naming
ceremony complete with good French champagne (that was the best part!) and
she has still lived up to her name - great boat; rotten engine (now an
anchor).

Even if you are not superstitious it is great fun to do and it also makes
you feel that it is definitely your boat.

Regards

Jackie




"Guy Lalonde" <guy.lalonde at sympatico.ca> on 01/07/99 09:20:20 PM

Please respond to alberg30 at onelist.com

To:   alberg30 at onelist.com
cc:    (bcc: Jackie E. Thomas/CENTRAL/CIML)
Subject:  [alberg30] Re: Considering Purchase




From: "Guy Lalonde" <guy.lalonde at sympatico.ca>

Tom,
I read somewhere that a lot of folks consider that
changing a boat's name is bad luck as well. In the
same article they mentionned that if you want to
change the boat name anyhow, that there is a
ritual that must be done on the boat out at sea.
I don't recall what the ritual was.

Anyone heard of what this so-called ritual is all about ?
(not that I'm superstitious ...)

Guy        Cyrena #466
guy.lalonde at sympatico.ca

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Parks <parks24 at hotmail.com>
To: alberg30 at onelist.com <alberg30 at onelist.com>
Date: Thursday, January 07, 1999 8:44 PM
Subject: [alberg30] Re: Considering Purchase


>From: "Thomas Parks" <parks24 at hotmail.com>
>
>On Tradewinds, which is #48, I have a plate in front of the companionway
>entrance that has 306448 or some such combination of these numbers (I'll
>have to go look at boat to get the correct order). I had figured these
>stood for 30ft., 1964, and hull #48. Does this sound like the correct
>numbers to anyone?
>By the way, does everyone change the name of their boat when they buy
>it? I was always told it was bad luck to change the name!! So we left it
>the same.
>Later,
>Tom Parks
>Tradewinds #48
>
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