My boat's already been named "Lorlee"
What are your guys' thoughts on changing the name? Bad luck as I've heard? Lol
There's a ceremony for that. When we bought our boat the name was a play-on-words of the former owner's names. Obviously it didn't fit for us. We went thru the ceremony of calling on Poseidon to "forever remove the name <old name> from the ledger of the deep, and from his memory" etc. etc. This was followed by removing anything with the old name on it, then painting the old name on a piece of metal and dropping it off the stern. Some ceremonies claim you must turn into the wind beforehand the let the wind blow your boat back over the old name as it sinks (we didn't do that since it's a power boat). A few old salts told us we should leave the boat nameless for a full month. After the month was up, we conducted the official naming ceremony with appeals to the four winds to watch over it and poured champagne in each wind's direction. The final step was to appeal to one of the ancient Greek winds which is our boat's namesake, followed by our own toast with the champagne. Then we pulled the cover off the new name and poured the rest of the bottle over the side (name was already on the stern when we started the ceremony, but we kept it covered until then).
I know it sounds silly, but I spent a lot of time on various craft (mainly work), and sometimes over a hundred days at sea. I worked with a lot of older experienced guys and picked up the superstitions and rituals.
