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More Superstitions about Boats
I was visiting your site because I am buying a boat with a name that I would like to change. A person I work with asked me if I was superstitious and I told him, "ABSOLUTELY!"
I was raised around boats and there are thing that are done and things that are not done. Most have been covered but here are the ones that I live buy.
Never name your boat for your wife...... She will win it in the divorce.
Never name your boat for your kids, something bad will happen to them on the water.
I was told from a little sailor on that when you give your boat a name, she (boat are always SHE) should NEVER be named a made up "cutesy" name, a profaine name or after someone who's alive. All my boats have been named for my sister who died long ago. She loved the water and taught me to love it, too. I ask her to look after all that sail on my boats, for fair winds and following seas.
The strangest superstition I have regards the luck or lack of it when fishing by certain products brought on board. I never drink beer or booze on my boat, but that, isn't the weird one. I NEVER, EVER, allow someone to drink products by Coca-cola when we are fishing.
For some strange reason, when I was fishing with certain people, we never caught fish. I always thought it was because THEY were bad luck. Then one day, Shaun, a guy I work with, came along at the last minute. He didn't have any drinks in his cooler. I told him not to worry about it, I had plenty. WHAM, we start catching fish left and right.
From then on, I watched what people drank on my boat. I could never catch fish with Coke products on my boats. From that day on, I search coolers before they come on the boat for anything made by Coke.
The other strange part is I have on purpose drank Coke on friends boats...... never a problem.
People who listen to me on the marine radio knows when RENEE HOPE starts catching fish, we haven't "thrown the skunk out of the fish box", we've "thrown the last can of COKE overboard"!
From:
http://www.globalpsychics.com/amusing-you/superstition/boat.shtml |
