Three weeks to the day after buying our very first sailboat, we christened our new-to-us girl and took our Catalina 22, S/V Magnetic North, out on Lake Charlevoix for the first time!
We christened the boat at her slip in the marina. I popped the bottle on the champagne, and the cork went....somewhere. We looked for about 5 minutes before giving up, and heading out.
Below are the pictures from her Christening Ceremony, and the very Happy Skipper, @ScubaGuy2 , motoring out of the marina!
Our next post will cover the Maiden Voyage - here is a sneak peak....
The neatest part of the day and biggest surprise happened when we arrived back at the dock. When we got back to our boat slip, an ex-coast guardsman who is camping here happened to see the whole christening ceremony and the subsequent 5 minute search for the cork afterwards. After we headed out, he went and found it for us and surprised us by putting it atop our boat slip!!! He came up to shake our hand when we arrived back at the dock and said he knows how special those things are because he christened 3 ships for the coast guard. Classy. And so neat!!
We christened the boat at her slip in the marina. I popped the bottle on the champagne, and the cork went....somewhere. We looked for about 5 minutes before giving up, and heading out.
Below are the pictures from her Christening Ceremony, and the very Happy Skipper, @ScubaGuy2 , motoring out of the marina!
Our next post will cover the Maiden Voyage - here is a sneak peak....
The neatest part of the day and biggest surprise happened when we arrived back at the dock. When we got back to our boat slip, an ex-coast guardsman who is camping here happened to see the whole christening ceremony and the subsequent 5 minute search for the cork afterwards. After we headed out, he went and found it for us and surprised us by putting it atop our boat slip!!! He came up to shake our hand when we arrived back at the dock and said he knows how special those things are because he christened 3 ships for the coast guard. Classy. And so neat!!