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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | is there a procedure? |
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Location: Waukesha, WI | for the process to rename a boat or for what it is named 
http://www.dmv.org/wi-wisconsin/boat-registration.php -- so much for an all inclusive form. I didn't see your item listed, but it has contact information. Section C might be a clue too.
or http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-m/vdoc/faq.htm#16
Edited by ESfishOX 6/26/2007 11:04 PM
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | Thanx, bro, but i'm looking for traditions, superstitions, etc.
Priapism got alot of chuckles. Some dirty looks. With that, and my recent shennanigans, I really need to "come about" (no, i have no need to come out of any closet, lol). I need to be positive, and cleanly promote what I believe in, without clouded , or convoluted controversy (although, that is what it seems i'm best at). |
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Location: Michigan | Bad luck re-naming a boat. Neptune will be very,very angry  |
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Location: Waukesha, WI | ahh, you could always take a bunch of bananas on the boat with you. I hear that gets rid of all superstitions. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Use all of the letters in the old name and a few more to make a new name. "Miss Appropriate' would be good. |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | LOVE IT!
Steve, your wit is unmatched. LOL |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | Here is what I found so far:
First you must remove all physical traces of the boat's old name. Take the old log book ashore, along with any other papers that bear the old name. Check for offending books and charts with the name inscribed. Be ruthless. Sand away the old name from the lifebuoys, transom, top-side, dinghy, and oars. Yes, sand it away. Painting over is not good enough. You're dealing with gods here, you understand, not mere dumb mortals. If the old name is carved or etched, try to remove it or, at the very minimum, fill it with putty and then paint over. And don't place the new name anywhere on the boat before the denaming ceremony is carried out. That's just tempting fate.
How you conduct the ceremony depends entirely on you. If you're the theatrical type, and enjoy appearing in public in your yacht club blazer and skipper's cap, you can read it with flair on the foredeck before a gathering of distinguished guests. But if you find this whole business faintly silly and embarrassing, and only go along with it because you're scared to death of what might happen if you don't, you can skulk down below and mumble it on your own. That's perfectly okay. The main thing is that you carry it out. The words must be spoken.
There are two things to watch out for here. Don't use cheap-cheap champagne, and don't try to keep any for yourself. Buy a second bottle if you want some. Use a brew that's reasonably expensive, based on your ability to pay, and pour the whole lot on the boat. One of the things the gods of the sea despise most is meanness, so don't try to do this bit on the cheap.
What sort of time period should elapse between this denaming ceremony and a new naming ceremony? There's no fixed time. You can do the renaming right after the denaming, if you want, but I personally would prefer to wait at least 24 hours to give any lingering demons a chance to clear out. (Scroll down for the wording of the ceremony.)
Afterwards - Now you can pop the cork, shake the bottle and spray the whole of the contents on the bow. When that's done, you can quietly go below and enjoy the other bottle yourself.
VIGOR'S DENAMING CEREMONY
"In the name of all who have sailed aboard this ship in the past, and in the name of all who may sail aboard her in the future, we invoke the ancient gods of the wind and the sea to favor us with their blessing today."
"Mighty Neptune, king of all that moves in or on the waves; and mighty Aeolus (pronounced EE-oh-lus), guardian of the winds and all that blows before them: We offer you our thanks for the protection you have afforded this vessel in the past. We voice our gratitude that she has always found shelter from tempest and storm and enjoyed safe passage to port."
"Now, wherefore, we submit this supplication, that the name whereby this vessel has hitherto been known (_____), be struck and removed from your records. Further, we ask that when she is again presented for blessing with another name, she shall be recognized and shall be accorded once again the selfsame privileges she previously enjoyed."
"In return for which, we rededicate this vessel to your domain in full knowledge that she shall be subject as always to the immutable laws of the gods of the wind and the sea. In consequence whereof, and in good faith, we seal this pact with a libation offered according to the hallowed ritual of the sea."
From:
http://www.yachtsee.com/helps/boatdenaming.php
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | Here is more:
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"!
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http://www.globalpsychics.com/amusing-you/superstition/boat.shtml |
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