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But what happens when, after months of searching, you find your dreamboat with a name that you just cannot live with. For example, my first love was a 28-foot Alden with the most beautiful lines I’d ever seen. She was named ? Well, I never bought her, but I often thought that if I had, I would have renamed her , after my wife. According to legend, each and every vessel is recorded by name in the Ledger of the Deep and is known personally to Poseidon, or Neptune, the god of the sea. This is an involved process beginning with the removal or obliteration of every trace of the boat’s current identity.
I once went through the ceremony after the owner had assured me that every reference to his boat’s old name had been purged from her. The next step in the renaming ceremony is to appease the gods of the winds. YACHT REGISTRATION or tax free boat registrations.