Baby Blue

We officially renamed our boat and after much prodding by Ashley, I am finally writing a post. The boat formerly known as Reprise, and before that Witchcraft, and even before that Savannah, is now Baby Blue. Ashley had quite a list of possible name choices but after much debate and trying out a few, this is the one that stuck.  While much of the canvas on the boat and our sail covers are light blue, the real inspiration for the name came from the Bob Dylan song of a similar title and even though I liked Rolling Stone it didn't seem appropriate for something that we hope will stay afloat.

Though we are not very superstitious, and somewhere I have read that it is not bad luck to rename a boat as long as it was not named after a woman, we felt there should be some form of renaming ceremony. So when the new decals arrived we made a point to clean the boat thoroughly inside and out and picked up a bottle of champagne. After the old name was scraped off and the new one stuck in place we splashed a little Cooks over the bow, saving  the rest for ourselves, made a quick toast  and called it good. So here's to Baby Blue, may she take us far.