Bryan wrote:
"Garth Almgren" wrote in message
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Around 9/4/2005 8:20 AM, Misifus wrote:


Well, I've seen those newreel images of some woman trying to christen a
large ship and not being able to break the bottle. They're pretty tough
bottles. g

Nah, they make special christening bottles now, with pre-scored glass
and a net to catch the broken shards.

http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs...1/10001/151851


--
~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats."
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows


Understood, but I"m pretty sure I still don't want to whack my fiberglass
boat with a bottle, scored or not! Maybe a boat made of steel, but not
fiberglass.


On small boats, you pour the bubbly over the bow.