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Eisboch Eisboch is offline
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Default Why are boat names feminine?


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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Ancient tradition.
Women aboard was also considered to bring bad luck.
Same with bananas and umbrellas today.


Is a T-Top considered an umbrella?


And what about a banana boat? hard luck and trouble all the way around?


The morning we left on our voyage to Florida, my brother's wife supplied a
bunch of bananas as some last minute provisions
..
Horrified, we took them off the boat and, as a joke, put them in the
cockpit of a friend's boat next to us. 2 weeks later I heard he blew an
engine.

Eisboch