I seem to remember seeing burning paper boats in some Hollywood film -
complete with image music. Can't remember what it was all about though.
David Cragg
Captain Beeky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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