So being a cautious sailor and captain, we recently held a denaming and renaming ceremony. Part of the traditional denaming ceremony is to write the old boat name on a piece of metal and drop it into the harbor. This poses a problem today in that there is generally zero tolerance for any thing being dropped into the bay, even if it will eventually rust away. The admiral and I scratched our heads for a while to come up with a suitable solution. You don't want to disappoint the gods and you also want to ensure they have a proper offering to cover the removal of the old name from their records while protecting their environment.j
We came up with, what I believe is a suitable solution to appease both the gods and the environmentalists. Our solution was to create a slurry of salt and write the old name onto a small board (paint stirrer worked for us), attach the board to a boat hook. At the appropriate time in the ceremony where I would normally drop the metal into the harbor, I lowered the stick with the name written in salt into the harbor and waited for the salt to dissolve. Thus the gods received the name in a suitable fashion and knew to erase it from their records and the environment was saved since adding salt to salt water doesn't cause any issues.
Thoughts, does this meet the renaming requirements from the gods, yes I used the proper amount of champagne (moderately priced) to show proper homage without being extravagant and yes, we said all of the appropriate words.
The old name is gone and French Temper is now properly named.
We came up with, what I believe is a suitable solution to appease both the gods and the environmentalists. Our solution was to create a slurry of salt and write the old name onto a small board (paint stirrer worked for us), attach the board to a boat hook. At the appropriate time in the ceremony where I would normally drop the metal into the harbor, I lowered the stick with the name written in salt into the harbor and waited for the salt to dissolve. Thus the gods received the name in a suitable fashion and knew to erase it from their records and the environment was saved since adding salt to salt water doesn't cause any issues.
Thoughts, does this meet the renaming requirements from the gods, yes I used the proper amount of champagne (moderately priced) to show proper homage without being extravagant and yes, we said all of the appropriate words.
The old name is gone and French Temper is now properly named.
