Anyone know where the custom of putting a coin under a mast started?
What's it for?

Under my main mast I have a 5 dollar coin from the Bucket of Blood
casino, and under the mizzen a JFK 50 cent coin.

What coin is under your mast?

Joe

On Nov 4, 1:43 pm, Joe wrote:
Anyone know where the custom of putting a coin under a mast started?
What's it for?

My Swedish step dad commercial fished the PNW all his life said, you
put a silver dollar under the mast for good luck. He also said a boat
painted any other color but what was trying to hid something. When I
was running some DC wire in the ceiling of my 1979 Freya I found a
1979 penny glued to the over head. I smiled.

When I pull my mast this winter Im going to glass in an 1879 silver
dollar for the same reason I:
1) removed anything with the boats original name on it.
2) completed a de-naming and christening ceremony.

Bob

Under my main mast I have a 5 dollar coin from the Bucket of Blood
casino, and under the mizzen a JFK 50 cent coin.

What coin is under your mast?
Joe

Bucket of Blood??? Humm, my mom welded WW2 Liberty Ships for JA Jones
in Miss. She talked about a place called the Bucket of Blood. Same
place?

Joe wrote:
Anyone know where the custom of putting a coin under a mast started?
What's it for?

Under my main mast I have a 5 dollar coin from the Bucket of Blood
casino, and under the mizzen a JFK 50 cent coin.

What coin is under your mast?

Joe

I have a silver dollar that General Motors paid me for a patent.
Couldn't spend it because it's molded in acrylic with my name and the
patent's name. I drilled holes in the four corners and screwed it down
to the step.

Bernard

Joe wrote:
Anyone know where the custom of putting a coin under a mast started?
What's it for?

To pay the crew's toll for the ferry on the Styx River when she goes
down.
Pleasant thought.
Those old timers were really a lot of pessimists.

Bob wrote:
My Swedish step dad commercial fished the PNW all his life said, you
put a silver dollar under the mast for good luck. He also said a boat
painted any other color but what was trying to hid something. When I
was running some DC wire in the ceiling of my 1979 Freya I found a
1979 penny glued to the over head. I smiled.


heh heh when I bought a 20+ year old Lightning to sail & restore, I
found the the previous & only owner of the boat, a very wealthy man,
had drilled through pennies to use as washers. There were at least 120
of them all through the boat.

When I pull my mast this winter Im going to glass in an 1879 silver
dollar for the same reason I:
1) removed anything with the boats original name on it.
2) completed a de-naming and christening ceremony.


Which one? There are several floating around. When we changed the name
of our boat, we simply re-christened it. No bad luck so far, but then
the previous name was so childish & repugnant that I'm sure the gods &
goddesses of the sea never took it seriously.


Under my main mast I have a 5 dollar coin from the Bucket of Blood
casino, and under the mizzen a JFK 50 cent coin.


Bucket of Blood??? Humm, my mom welded WW2 Liberty Ships for JA Jones
in Miss. She talked about a place called the Bucket of Blood. Same
place?

Could be, but it's been a really long time and the Gulf casinos have
attracted some big money owners, none are in WW2 era buildings.


Why not get a real gold doubloon? In boat money, they're relatively
cheap.
http://cgi.ebay.com/2-Escudos-Gold-C...QQcmdZViewItem

or
http://tinyurl.com/2lovk7

I may get one for my next boat.

Fresh BReezes- Doug King

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Joe wrote:
Anyone know where the custom of putting a coin under a mast started?
What's it for?

*To pay the crew's toll for the ferry on the Styx River when she goes
down*.
Pleasant thought.
Those old timers were really a lot of pessimists.

snip....

Wasn't that the pennies put on a dead persons eyes?

On Nov 4, 4:03 pm, Bob wrote:
On Nov 4, 1:43 pm, Joe wrote:

Anyone know where the custom of putting a coin under a mast started?
What's it for?

My Swedish step dad commercial fished the PNW all his life said, you
put a silver dollar under the mast for good luck. He also said a boat
painted any other color but what was trying to hid something. When I
was running some DC wire in the ceiling of my 1979 Freya I found a
1979 penny glued to the over head. I smiled.

When I pull my mast this winter Im going to glass in an 1879 silver
dollar for the same reason I:
1) removed anything with the boats original name on it.
2) completed a de-naming and christening ceremony.

Bob

Under my main mast I have a 5 dollar coin from the Bucket of Blood
casino, and under the mizzen a JFK 50 cent coin.

What coin is under your mast?
Joe

Bucket of Blood??? Humm, my mom welded WW2 Liberty Ships for JA Jones
in Miss. She talked about a place called the Bucket of Blood. Same
place?

Mine is from the original bucket of blood ..A quait little Saloon up
in the High Serria's.... Virginia City .

Joe

On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:30:06 -0800, Joe wrote:


Mine is from the original bucket of blood ..A quait little Saloon up in
the High Serria's.... Virginia City .


Original? Maybe in this country, but you forget the Old World.

http://www.cornwalls.co.uk/photos/img188.htm

On Nov 4, 4:21 pm, wrote:


when I bought a 20+ year old Lightning to sail & restore, I
found the the previous & only owner of the boat, a very wealthy man,
had drilled through pennies to use as washers. There were at least 120
of them all through the boat.

Wow he must have been filthy rich Doug..That's over 1.20..

Dimes make great #8 washers and cheaper than SS.

Joe

On Nov 4, 4:23 pm, Joe wrote:

Wow he must have been filthy rich Doug..That's over 1.20..

Dimes make great #8 washers and cheaper than SS.

Joe

Yea.......... whats that all about?!?! I used nickles as spacers when
I was rebeding deck hardware cause it was cheeper to use money that
buy flat washers??!?!?!?!?!

Whut up wit money worth less than a washer??
Bewildered Bob

On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:43:37 -0800, Joe
wrote:

Anyone know where the custom of putting a coin under a mast started?
What's it for?

Under my main mast I have a 5 dollar coin from the Bucket of Blood
casino, and under the mizzen a JFK 50 cent coin.

What coin is under your mast?

Joe


I think the tradition originally specified a "silver coin".


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