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(Lauri Tarkkonen) wrote:

In (Nickoli) writes:

Cheers!

I have another question that springs to mind, if I were to buy a boat
would I be legally required or perhaps moreover bound by etiquette to
keep the name. The only reason being that a boat has been in my family
for a few years, and I would want to 'keep the name in the family' as
it were.

You would not be legally required. Whether your family would care
that you didn't keep the name is something you will have to ask them.

Any thoughts?

Some superstitious people say, that to change a boat's name will bring
her bad luck. Then the same people say that you have to follow a certain
procedure to change the boats name. I think this procedure has been
repeated in this forum for some 5 times during the last 15 years, so you
might be able to find it by using your favourite search engine.

If the boat is somewhere registered the keeper of the records must be
notified, but otherways there should not be any trouble with the change
of the boat's name. People and even towns and countries change names.

I have kept the name but changed the boat for a few times, makes it
easier in some bureaucratic procedures. The telecommunication
authorities did not demand a new VHF licence as long as the name of the
boat was the same. They did not have any interest that the lenght of the
boat grew a few feet and the weight about doubled. (You see what good
care can do.)

You must be bringing that little boat up right - lots of good
nutritious food LOL

grandma Rosalie