gwax's rumblings

Earlier today I bought a boat. She’s a beau­ti­ful 1987 Hobie 16 cata­ma­ran. She has white hulls and the sails are red and white. Her hulls are flaw­less, the trapeze is in great shape, the sails are in good shape and one cleat needs replac­ing. I am going to have a great deal of fun sail­ing this summer.

As any good (super­sti­tious) sailor knows, it’s bad luck to rename a boat so I have two options: keep the old name or per­form a com­plex de-naming cer­e­mony. I did some read­ing about de-naming cer­e­monies, which range from spilling cham­pagne while invok­ing posei­don to sail­ing back­wards across the equa­tor, and some think­ing about the boats cur­rent name, Synchronicity. Having done the think­ing, com­par­i­son and super­sti­tious sould search­ing, I have decided that stick­ing with the cur­rent name, which it has held for 18 years, is a good one. Synchronicity is a term defined by the psy­chol­o­gist Jung to mean a mean­ing­ful coin­ci­dence. Also, it’s a pretty and pow­er­ful name, care­fully writ­ten on her side.

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