On Sunday, March 25, 2007 9:48 AM [GMT+1=CET], S J Hambleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <De-lurk> > > This may seem a little superstitious but I was always of the > understanding that to re-name a boat was considered bad luck? > > I was talking to a colleague t'other day and they said that there was > an old ritual that involved burning a paper boat as part of a renaming > ceremony to appease the "God of boat renaming badluckness".Apparently > the ceremony was used by canal folk many decades ago if a commercial > boat was renamed, i.e. if it changed owners and they needed to make > the alteration for business reasons. > > Is this correct or just another waterborne myth? I suspect the latter. Canal boats in the working years were regularly re-named when they changed owners. Mike Stevens narrowboat Felis Catus III web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk Defend the waterways. Visit the web site www.saveourwaterways.org.uk
