Bananas on a boat?? Any other superstitions you know or believe in?? Your experience?

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I learned some funny boating superstitions, and am curious what others may exist. What superstitions have you heard? Have you had anything happen to you??
The first time I had guests on my boat leaving the launch I had issues with the power steering being stiff. Popped the hood and found that alternator belt was not on the crankshaft pulley %100 and shredding.
I had brought 4 bananas on board this trip for the first time and learned they were apparently rooted in a long history of boating problems. This is a serious thing in some places or to some people. Some places strictly prohibit bananas on board. No joke, banned.
Truly, I did just recently change the alternator and when I adjusted the belt I was almost at the end of the adjustment bracket. I just casually thought the pulley on the new alternator must be smaller.

Stupid mistake on my part, or maybe the banana gremlins got in their!!!

Any stories? Please share :) Thanks

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I’ve had bananas on my boats lots of times, no issues. I have heard that before about not having them aboard, pretty silly, IMHO!
 
The banana myth supposedly goes back to fishermen mostly is my understanding. Bananas apparently have properties that will repel fish. Of course this would be seen as a bad luck item in days of old when fishermen would notice a lack of fish caught only when bananas were on board.

An interesting one in the ancient Hawaiian culture it was considered bad luck to say you were going to go fishing. So instead Hawaiian fishermen would instead say; they were going to go "Hele I Uka" which translates roughly to travel inland or "Hele'auana" , to go wandering.
 
Not supposed to change the name of a boat. I think it’s a bunch of bunk.
 
No bananas on board, but must have rum on board.

I hit a submerged object on a family trip on Lake MI a few years back. Broke a prop shaft, bent a prop and a rudder. Turns out my wife had packed bananas...but we did have rum so that's ultimately why the boat didn't sink.
 
Think of all the crazy shit that's happened in your life and then think wow am I really superstitious crazy shits happen to me in my life I walk under ladders all day it's just crazy
 
I like that one
 
I’ve written this before, but it’s been some time.

I renamed my 2nd boat (330da) and did not perform the renaming ceremony. Every year, I had a big $ repair. I mean $1,000s. One was a cracked port shaft tube for no reason. I didn’t hit anything. The shafts are aligned and hand new cutlass bearings. The thing was leaking one day and had a crack-$2,500. The FU moment was the sea trial day. The buyer gets there. I go to put it in reverse and the starboard transmission goes out. Kaput. $7,000 later I was rid of it.

We replaced that 330 with a 370. We did the renaming ceremony. We had champagne, dock neighbors, it was great. I owned that boat 9 years and nothing. The hardest thing was the rubber o-ring in the drain for the icemaker dried up and leaked. Took me a year to figure that out. I miss that boat.

You bet, I believe in that ceremony.
 
no bananas ever. Have had them a couple times, always something bad. Not even food with bananas as an ingredient (apparently nearly ALL baby food is made from them...)
 
My boat wasn't named when I got it so therefore I didn't have to perform any ceremony to change the name just new numbers and her name which is
PurrFect for my three cats
 
330DA said:
I’ve written this before, but it’s been some time.

I renamed my 2nd boat (330da) and did not perform the renaming ceremony. Every year, I had a big $ repair. I mean $1,000s. One was a cracked port shaft tube for no reason. I didn’t hit anything. The shafts are aligned and hand new cutlass bearings. The thing was leaking one day and had a crack-$2,500. The FU moment was the sea trial day. The buyer gets there. I go to put it in reverse and the starboard transmission goes out. Kaput. $7,000 later I was rid of it.

We replaced that 330 with a 370. We did the renaming ceremony. We had champagne, dock neighbors, it was great. I owned that boat 9 years and nothing. The hardest thing was the rubber o-ring in the drain for the icemaker dried up and leaked. Took me a year to figure that out. I miss that boat.

You bet, I believe in that ceremony.
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The best part of the ceremony (which we have performed) is the bottle of champagne. And believe me we didn’t break it on the bow, we found a MUCH better use for it!:cool:
 
I have honestly never owned a named boat, we have talked about naming this 240 SD because she is the first boat that seemed name worthy. I guess I always felt you had to get to the sport cruiser/ yacht category before a name was justified.
 
JayhawkCurtis said:
I have honestly never owned a named boat, we have talked about naming this 240 SD because she is the first boat that seemed name worthy. I guess I always felt you had to get to the sport cruiser/ yacht category before a name was justified.
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If there's enough transom room, go for it. The first boat I named was a 27 footer. I had a 24 ft Laguna a few boats after that I didn't bother to put a name on it. Same with my 27 ft Cobia but both were because they had outboards and little transom space. I didn't want to run the name on the sides like many do, like this.
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