It's a miracle I'm alive!

admin537392
Mar 24
2 min read

There are many curious myths surrounding boats and being on the water.

Courtesy of Google, I have listed the top eleven below:

1. No Whistling Allowed

2. No Bananas on Board

3. No Women on Board

4. Avoid Redheads

5. It’s bad luck to say “drown” “Good luck” and “goodbye” were also forbidden,

6. Swearing while fishing was also seen as bad luck.

7. Never Rename a Ship

8. Don’t Sail on Fridays

9. Don’t Travel With a Jonah

10. Don’t Shoot the Albatross

11. Take Care of the Ship’s Cat

On reading this list, I was perturbed.

You see, I AM a woman who loves to fish with her red-headed husband on our RDO – which is on a Friday. We do swear out of surprise when we hook a surprise Kingy! We have warned our daughter-in-law, who can’t swim, not to drown when she takes a dip waist deep on the sandbar. We haven’t shot an Albatross, but we have had one on board our boat when it decided our lure was a meal and became entangled (oh boy, that was fun –NOT). Our adult children often meet us at a wharf different to where we put put so that they can be dropped near their cars should they have to leave early…I say good bye when they go. As a mad Queen fan who has the world’s biggest crush on the lead singer, and having a 150hp Mercury engine power our boat, I begged hubby to change the name of our boat to Freddie. Thank goodness he refused!