Captain Beeky wrote: > On 25, Mar 2007, at 10:09, Mike Stevens wrote: > >>> 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. > > I seem to remember a story that if a boat was to be renamed it was > "best done" when out of the water, for superstitious reasons. > > Cross fingers that's the way to do it. > > Beeky
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