No Limits

[Bouba]

 

[sharpness]

Well, that's shut me up. I was led to believe bananas on a boat were bad luck. But at 3 min into the vid they can clearly be seen on the table, and if this boat has covered 11000 miles without issue, then that's good news for any boater who is a fan of bananas

 

[Bouba]

Well, that's shut me up. I was led to believe bananas on a boat were bad luck. But at 3 min into the vid they can clearly be seen on the table, and if this boat has covered 11000 miles without issue, then that's good news for any boater who is a fan of bananas

Ever since I was told that (and I wish I wasn’t)...we actually change our banana eating strategy....bananas are so good for you but before a boat trip we stop buying them...so we either eek out our banana supply or binge eat them if we have miscalculated or it’s a spur of the moment trip

 

[sharpness]

Bouba I'm the same. Bananas are my favourite fruit, but they are banned from our boat after a mate of mine told me about this superstition. I didn't believe him at first, but good old google search engine gave this answer........Yes, bananas are a very common and persistent superstition in boating and fishing, considered bad luck that brings no fish, mechanical failures, or even shipwrecks.....

So I wouldn't normally listen to superstitions, but in this case I don't take any chances

Sorry for taking your thread off in a weird tangent

 

[KevinV]

The problem with bananas on board is that they give off ethylene, which makes all other fruit ripen at once - however carefully you've bought it to ripen in turn. We had an undoubtedly very healthy (but rather unfragrant and tuneful) first week of our Atlantic crossing

I'm guessing that ethylene being a potentially explosive gas (quite apart from the quantities of methane we produced) is the reason for the superstition.

 

[Bigplumbs]

Lest you don’t know bananas are not a fruit they are a herb. Actually the largest herb

 

[billskip]

Lest you don’t know bananas are not a fruit they are a herb. Actually the largest herb

Are you confusing the plant with the berry?

 

[Bouba]

Bouba I'm the same. Bananas are my favourite fruit, but they are banned from our boat after a mate of mine told me about this superstition. I didn't believe him at first, but good old google search engine gave this answer........Yes, bananas are a very common and persistent superstition in boating and fishing, considered bad luck that brings no fish, mechanical failures, or even shipwrecks.....

So I wouldn't normally listen to superstitions, but in this case I don't take any chances

Sorry for taking your thread off in a weird tangent

There was an entire category of ship called Banana Boats (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_boat_(ship))......and of course a song to go with it.....but I’m with you... you don’t take chances especially after you have been warned

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Some bananas, 2 container loads, recently unshipped themselves from a boat off the Nab Tower a few days ago. Our beaches were covered in them. Hence this nativity scene doing the rounds

 

[Alicatt]

Watching Jacob Knowles' youtube channel on building his new 50' lobster boat, he will not talk about that pink skinned curly-tailed animal as the fishermen there believe they are bad luck

Jacob Knowles

 

[Aardee]

The problem with bananas on board is that they give off ethylene, which makes all other fruit ripen at once - however carefully you've bought it to ripen in turn. We had an undoubtedly very healthy (but rather unfragrant and tuneful) first week of our Atlantic crossing

I'm guessing that ethylene being a potentially explosive gas (quite apart from the quantities of methane we produced) is the reason for the superstition.

Exactly - The reason bananas are considered bad karma on boats is that in the early days of shipping bananas a few ships disappeared, which we now know were probably caused by a build up of explosive gas.

 

[Davy_S]

Before you give someone a banana, get a sewing needle or big pin, stick it through the skin every half inch and move it from side to side, then watch when someone peels the banana and all the ready made slices fall out!

 

[Bouba]

Exactly - The reason bananas are considered bad karma on boats is that in the early days of shipping bananas a few ships disappeared, which we now know were probably caused by a build up of explosive gas.

That’s ridiculous !......they would have been lost in the Bermuda Triangle

 

[Bill W]

Watching Jacob Knowles' youtube channel on building his new 50' lobster boat, he will not talk about that pink skinned curly-tailed animal as the fishermen there believe they are bad luck

Jacob Knowles

I've never heard that one but I can say that Channel Island fishermen, possibly elsewhere too, Will never carry on board or even allow mention of "underground racehorses", those long-eared, bob-tailed, carrot-loving creatures.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

I've never heard that one but I can say that Channel Island fishermen, possibly elsewhere too, Will never carry on board or even allow mention of "underground racehorses", those long-eared, bob-tailed, carrot-loving creatures.

Only scouts learn their bowlines using the long eared one and a tree. They are considered unlucky by all sailors, from Nelson’s time and before, quite possibly.