Bananas bad luck

[Denek]

I like Bananas and usually take a few on board but never again. I just read that they bring bad luck. I know they can cause other fruit to ripen more quickly but that does not bother me. We never have that much with us. Apparently though they can cause bad weather too. Maybe this explains why we have tried 3 times this so called summer to have a decent cruise and twice we have come home because of wind and/ or rain And once for family commitment.
no more bananas.

 

[DJE]

Doesn't seem to bother these guys!

 

[Aardee]

Apparently it wasn't unknown for the old boats transporting bananas from the tropics to spontaneously explode due to the gases given off by the bananas in the uncontrolled environment, hence the superstition. The odd bunch in the fruit bowl should be OK

 

[Mistroma]

I did once see someone post that they were prone to attracting hurricanes.

It later turned out to be a typo and he meant bahamas.

 

[prv]

I once had a female colleague come aboard dressed all in green and bringing a pasty and a banana for lunch. The skipper did comment that all she needed to do was start whistling and we’d have a full house ?

Pete

 

[colind3782]

As someone pointed out in another thread, it's bad luck to be superstitious!

 

[Frogmogman]

Doesn't seem to bother these guys!

That takes me back; I did a banana boat as a drawing office project in my first year of Ship Science (which was a shameless ripped-off copy of the Geestbay).

 

[oldharry]

Rabbits are a far more serious issue. Brittany Ferries Bretagne will not sail if there is a rabbit on board. The foredeck crew refused to sail when they discovered the Duracell Rabbit logo on packaging in the ship's Shop!

So whats that all about? Exploding Banana boats give some factual basis for the fear, but Bunny wabbits? Gee! whats up Doc! - to quote a famous one....

 

[Caraway]

French .......

 

[sgr143]

... and now I've got the Banana Boat Song as an earworm.
"DAY OH !! DAY EE EE OH! Daylight come and we wan' go home..."

 

[Denek]

Rabbits are a far more serious issue. Brittany Ferries Bretagne will not sail if there is a rabbit on board. The foredeck crew refused to sail when they discovered the Duracell Rabbit logo on packaging in the ship's Shop!

So whats that all about? Exploding Banana boats give some factual basis for the fear, but Bunny wabbits? Gee! whats up Doc! - to quote a famous one....

i thought a rabbits foot was meant to be good luck.

 

[Corribee Boy]

not for the rabbit!

 

[Frogmogman]

French .......

Bananes ?

 

[Gary Fox]

French .......

Bretons

 

[Gary Fox]

Apparently it wasn't unknown for the old boats transporting bananas from the tropics to spontaneously explode due to the gases given off by the bananas in the uncontrolled environment, hence the superstition. The odd bunch in the fruit bowl should be OK

Interesting, what gas would that be? A hydrocarbon of some kind, presumably?

 

[oldharry]

Methane from decomposition?

 

[Snoopy463]

Ethylene, or whatever its called these days.

 

[Denek]

I also read somewhere that fishermen don’t like Bananas because they deter fish but I have swum in the Caribbean and fed bananas to fish and they went wild for them. I’m still going to blame then for this crappy summer on my boat. Hoping to get out next week.

 

[Bajansailor]

That takes me back; I did a banana boat as a drawing office project in my first year of Ship Science (which was a shameless ripped-off copy of the Geestbay).

Frogmogman and I were in the same year at Uni - my banana boat was very similar to the Geestbay as well, except that she has a transom stern, and mine had a cruiser stern (I think that is the name for a pointy stern on a ship?)
Here is Geestbay - she was a lovely vessel.
GEESTBAY - IMO 8003761 - Callsign 3FPM4 - ShipSpotting.com - Ship Photos and Ship Tracker
She was scrapped at the notorious Alang Beach 12 years ago, but Geest had sold her to someone else long before then.

Coincidentally I recently came across this drawing of my banana boat that I did 37 years ago-



The Geest Line still operates a weekly reefer service to the West Indies -
Home Page - Geest Line
However they no longer carry 12 passengers
The current vessels look rather different now to our project vessels and Geestbay!
Atlantic Klipper is currently on her way to Barbados from Portsmouth, with an ETA early on Tuesday morning - they do fairly shift, taking just 9 days for 4,000 miles.
. ATLANTIC KLIPPER (Reefer/Containership) Registered in Netherlands - Vessel details, Current position and Voyage information - IMO 9454761, MMSI 245723000, Call Sign PCIU

 

[Frogmogman]

Nice one Bajansailor. I don’t recall my rendering being so impressive, which May explain a
why you are a Naval Architect, and I am a publican.

I do remember persuading one of our number that a snooker room would be a nice idea on his car ferry. Not a feature that impressed Mr Cooper much…..