Boat name change !!!!!

paulburton44

paulburton44

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Is it really unlucky ....???

Just bought a Parker 235 called Angle.... the boat is less than 1 year old and has not been SSR 'ed
I really don't like the name.
I guess all I would need to do to change the name is inform the radio licence people, insurance company and coastguard.
 
Changed our boats name & no problems & several friends also done it with no apparent bad luck - but to be sure I suggest a ceremony with sufficient libation to assuage the gods - or your own worries...........
 
Changed the name of my first boat with no bad luck to follow although I was advised that name changes should be done with the boat out of the water. Suspect not a problem given size and design of your boat. Best wishes. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
This has been considered unlucky for centuries.

If you are in any way superstitious there is a ceremony, invloving offering libations to Aeolus and Poseidon, which you should be able to find by searching the fora.

I've often wondered why my own boat was named "Sea Vespa", but have never had the guts to change it. The way she handles in Marinas I need all the luck I can get !
 
We re-named ours last year and a friend of mine has re-named every boat he's owned. If it makes you happier use a "ceremony" which can be found using an internet search, and to just pay a little homage to the "bad luck" brigade I read somewhere to remove all signs of the old name from the boat before you re-name her. Having said that when our spray dodgers are wet you can still see the stitching of the old name! In six weeks cruising this summer nothing broke, fell-off, we didn't sink or hit anything. As somebody said we make our own luck...it's called good preparation.
 
No - It's was only considered unlucky in the old days when boats were made of wood. both there name and number were carved into the stern. if it was renamed it was then carved out again over the top, said to weaken the stern and being unlucky.
 
I changed mine (my boat's, I mean) after a major rebuild - it seemed appropriate somehow. I did place a silver sixpence underneath the mast step on the keel. A traditional alternative is to hammer a coin into a convenient shake in the mainmast.
 
Understand the bad luck is attributed to the Lloyds Register - back in the days of East Indiamen, it was cheaper and faster for an owner to have a new boat built than to refit the existing one (on the register). The practice then came to be to have a "spare" ready to go so when an ailing one came home, the spare became the registered ship, and the old girl was sold off to someone who couldn't afford the refit, hence renamed vessels put to sea in less than seamanship condition, and often foundered - ceremoney offering grog to the gods obviously is the solution ... :-)
 
It is also beleived that if you change the name that a 'connection' to the former name must be found in the new one for extended luck. So, to avoid the sticker tracings just add some characters at the beginning or the end of the old name.
Suggestions:
Bangle
Dangler
Tangle
I'm sure more suggestions will follow now!
Regards.
 
I have a personal line to Poseidon and Neptune, and they both tell me they are significantly peed with you, so I wouldn't go sailing for next few weeks if I were you
 
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