Superstitious sailors?

[Master_and_Commander]

I've wondered this for ages, why is it considered unlucky for you to paint you hull green, and why is it bad luck to have Bananas on board? What the hell happens if you have Bananas on your green hulled boat??!! /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[Guest]

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What the hell happens if you have Bananas on your green hulled boat

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In bad weather you end up with nasty yellow and green streaks down the lee rail...

 

[Master_and_Commander]

Thought that happened in nasty weather anyway.....................!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Deleted member 478]

The problem with having a full hand of bananananas on board is that they will all ripen on the same day.

 

[Guest]

Nah, white and yellow or blue and yellow is much more tasteful. 'course, bananas are pretty much the same whichever way they're going. But green and yellow is enough to make you puke!

 

[2nd_apprentice]

Never paint the hull in the colour of the sea or use ballast from the deep because the ocean might reclaim it.

 

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Never paint the hull in the colour of the sea or use ballast from the deep because the ocean might reclaim it.

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How do you know whether the oil used to make your gelcoat came from the North Sea or the Siberian oilfields? Also, if you're going from the (green) seas of Brittany to the (mucky grey) seas of the North Sea, the (blue) Mediterranean, or thinking of a trip up to (white) Greenland, what's the safest colour to use?
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[2nd_apprentice]

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How do you know whether the oil used to make your gelcoat came from the North Sea or the Siberian oilfields? Also, if you're going from the (green) seas of Brittany to the (mucky grey) seas of the North Sea, the (blue) Mediterranean, or thinking of a trip up to (white) Greenland, what's the safest colour to use?

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Sail a wooden boat so I'm fine with the gelcoat thingy. It's painted blue though so I'm restricted to the brownish Humber /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

 

[theforeman]

any number of green hulled fishing boats around.

 

[Twister_Ken]

I just don't believe in bad lu..

 

[Gerry]

Skid marks!

www.gerryantics.blogspot.com

 

[ADLS]

Gets even worse if you put yer brolly up to eat yer green nana on a green boat surround by that orrible green weed stuff.

My worst stroke of luck was getting on a green boat and the beer fridge was empty.

 

[pessimist]

Dunno whether I should answer this or not. Once had a green hulled boat. She sank at her moorings.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Green didn't do the Aishers and their Yeomen any harm

Nor Imp, American Admirals cup star of the late '70's and still going strong

 

[Seagreen]

Sideways on the topic, but my father in law always considered green cars unlucky and accident prone.. But then maybe he was and is a poor driver.

 

[Jonny_H]

My father in law is superstitous over green on boats (green anything on a boat!) - apparently dead bodies fished from the sea are green - hence its unlucky to paint your boat (or anything on it) the colour of death ....

Jonny

 

[powerskipper]

every green car we have owned has been involved in an accident, other colours not so, so we never get green cars now /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[SwedishLass]

Green pigments were often toxic, there is a theory that Napoleon absorbed enough arsenic from fumes given off by the green pigments in the wallpaper to be fatal. Perhaps the superstition related to painting on the souls of the dead painters of workers.

 

[polantom]

Green is considered an unlucky colour by a lot of people. I remember my grandfather being horrified when someone painted a room green and refusing to step inside the room. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif I was later told that green paints contained toxins in the past and it wasn't unknown for babies and young children to die while sleeping in green rooms.
On a personal note, I once had a patient return their prescription to me because she said I had given her the wrong tablets. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif She said they were the wrong colour. I checked her prescription and her records and found that she had always had the same drug as she had now. She still insisted that they were the wrong colour and that they were green. The tablets should have been orange so I popped a couple out of the blister pack to double check the colour and they were indeed orange. The patient still insisted that they were the wrong colour and when I showed her the orange tablets she eventually pointed to the foil strips and said that they were green and she wouldn't have green in her house!! So I popped her tablets into a bottle and she left much happier than when she arrived. I can only assume she never ate many vegetables either. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif