A Boat Renaming

Re-naming a boat is serious business indeed. Sailors are an exceedingly superstitious lot and have massive reluctance to do it. There must be speeches. Offerings to mollify Neptune too. When we were at The Boatworks a beautiful 50' South African built catamaran was lifted called Lady Frances. There are a number of South African catamaran builders and they seem to have created many good looking vessels. This one was no exception. On our transit through the Sheridan Flats, Matt and Debbie came past and urged us along. They were going to rendezvous with Promise 2 a little further north. What were our plans? A call through to Brenton on Promise 2, who we'd not seen since our boat lift, indicated that there was a boat renaming on the cards. Oh, who can resist a serious event like that! Communications with Starship and Bilbungara meant that a whole fleet would be in attendance as they couldn't resist coming too. Extra attendees would surely add some gravitas to the occasion.

 

Debbie and Matt passing us with their NEW signage.

Debbie with the champers ready

 Formalities and acknowledgements to Neptune

All in attendance toasting the good ship La Jorja

A stunning sunset followed

 

A delighted couple with a coronet  from above.

Clearly a great omen!

Happily my video effort worked out and was the only video record of the event due to technical difficulties with other equipment. Much of the evening was then spent exchanging images and ongoing toasting of the new identity.