Is it bad luck to rename a boat? 

May Renko be forever blessed with fair winds and calm seas. Poseidon, please keep Renko and all who sail on her safe and let us be witness to the change in your ledger. For this, we give our thanks.

Love the font and great colour. Congratulations on naming your boat 👍

So nice to see the Renko coming together. Please make sure to give us a couple of short 10 second shots from the band night so we can enjoy your other talent. With the short blurbs you will avoid copyright strikes and we get to enjoy it.

Great name and lettering Stu. Look forward to seeing it on the water!

Good to have a chat at the boat show tidy. Hope Robs Passage Planner is helpful in the future

Detective Renko from Gorky Park! Excellent book, great name! Greg

wow great explanation on superstitions

Make sure you keep that dedication speech you have written down. Keep it in the boats log book as part of it's permanent record.

Hi Stew, great to meet you in person at the Sydney International Boat Show! Keep going, I'll keep watching!

great job stu,,,..boats is really showing the work you've put in...well done

Got to say, that I just loved the interaction in this video, a couple of viewers rocking up and getting involved, drinking some beers and putting the lettering on - and really, the letter being a little of centre is just part of the legend of RENKO.

It’s good for us to have ceremony... life without moments dedicated to celebrating and marking beginnings and change is a bit bleak. I like to think the fun you and your guys had in that moment will become part of Renko. Well done!! Please let me know how your schedule looks when you in New England - looking forward to meeting you in person and cooking lobsters at the meetup 👍🏻

Great name. I used the same method for my Sailboat Name. The vinyl lettering goes on well. Loved the narrative

Congrats on the renaming of your boat Stu

Stu, The boat is looking great.

What a nice looking Boat.

Awesome to see the name going on her....congratulations mate!!!

When putting the name of the port on the bottom, for a moment the AR was blocked so look like Dang Island. Nice name for a boat, many she float well. sail true, and be a restful place for all she carries

Right strategy on the alignment of port to name. Looks great.....love the name and the font!

Sitting in the maternity ward waiting for my son to be born and I get the notification of a new Stu video.....what a bloody brilliant day 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

May you have fair weather and following seas.

LOL saw the video title then was about to comment... I hope you maintain the ledger of the deep, then I saw you mention it. Well done.

Stu, good job! we did our boat renaming with the boat in the water; cruised out to an island that was meaningful to the family, had a couple family members on board. It must be a commonly known ceremony because we did i think essentially the same speech and pouring the bottle east/west, etc though in our case it was champagne. It can't hurt to try to keep Poseidon and Neptune happy. Renko is looking great, i can't wait to see the engine dropped back in and hear it running...

Awesome Stu, Loved the ceremony. Wish you were stopping by the Seattle area on your trip so I could say hi. Maybe down the road someday

Great video. One easy way to find the center of your graphic is to fold in half, lining up your end letters and make a crease. That way you get center and a straight line to use as a guide in lining up.

You start that great music and I'm further pulled in 👍 I let friend's kids submit potential name for my boat and winner's family gets a fun afternoon on the boat. Well, I have a different name I plan to use, so I'll wait till afterward.

So many times I've listened to you share your knowledge in so many unknown boating and machanical subjects unknown too me it's funny that now you are in my own sign writing field too :) Cheers from NZ!

Great video Stu! I raise my glass to the Renko! Wishing her fair winds and following seas! Cool to hear your coming to the US. If you ever get a chance to get up in the Lake Superior area I recommend it. Beautiful area and I'll buy you a beer! Get some video of your adventures here. Have fun and safe travels mate!

Renko is a beauty! A real upgrade from the Green Machine.

Renko, May you ever sail straight and true, on a starless night be your sailors guiding light, and never fail to bring us home so no wife live alone.

Arkady Renko: one of the all-time great novel detectives, and a real human being. "Renko": a great name for a vessel. Two thumbs up from Greenwell Point.

I've read a couple of those novels. I'll have to look for the others. Great character, and choice for a name.

Cool name and looks great too.

Looking good mate! I always look forward to your next video. Best of luck to you on your travels and thanks again for bring us along on your progress of Renko.

not to give a big head, your video editing is well done, enjoy the presentation. the beer looked taste, yum

Hahaha got to have a bunch of beers for the ceremony. I wish I would have been there to kick back a few with you guys.

When we'd name a boat, lots of cold beer, check, good friends, check, measurements, check, and having a good time doing it. Buddy named his boat, About Right Jeff in LA USA

Godspeed Renko and all those who sail in her.

The old girl is looking great Stu, you've done an amazing job so far!

Fantastic episode

It looks good, and really from the distance it doesn't appear off.....👍

very cool video Stu, really enjoyed it.

Nothing finer to watch than a committee gets involved in a job. Best of luck in her Stu.

Looks great!

Nope. The "Golden Hind" was originally the "Pelican" and quite a few Royal Navy ships were renamed and served with distinction

From Holiday Island to Dangar Island 👍 You’ve done a great job with the trawler Neptune is pleased

Good Luck, and may you have safe travels and fair winds :-) She's looking good............

I find the sticker stuff up humorous, ull look at that for years and shake your head! Im a recovered alcoholic, almost 2 years. Cheers from kiwi land

Looking good Willis,congratulations on the naming,hasn’t sunk yet so you should be right I’d say.Stuy those blunt rear rubbing strips have potential for hook ups on ropes and piers I can see,you know best but thought to point that out,stay safe buddy,loving it.

*whistles* "Follow the Moskva.... Down to Gorky Park listening to the winds of chaaaange...." Great name Stu - great books also. Love it.

Dang...I never seen so much fluffin around to put a few transfers on ....lol

She looks nice with her new name. Neptune will be pleased.

Ahhh...great day and an honour to be a part of Stu...Long live Renko and all who sail upon her :)

We love our silly superstitions! Love the name and loved the ceremony. Cheers to Renko and to Poseidon!

Nice of Stu to offer that lady his helm seat!

Looks Good from Here

Great video. Cool font, Thanks for sharing

USS Phoenix survived Pearl Harbour, and was later renamed 'General Belgrano' on passing to Argentina. It was sunk by a British torpedo, however this was 30 years later and nearly 50 years from the ship's first launch. So good and bad luck both in there, I suppose.

mate.. love your work..love this channel ..hope the ingot tossed into the wild sea was 'mangrove friendly'... just saying as I was watching with my 6 year old who asked 'why was that man throwing stuff into the sea ...cause you're not allowed to do that !" I said you picked it up later, but it wasn't on the video.

Good name Stuey, I’m about to name mine the Davy and may even go to trouble of the ceremony, what the hell we’re only here once. It’s my birthday today topped off with a Danger Stu video life doesn’t get much better.......Lookin forward to the next one mate👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Love it Stu

That boat is looking real nice. Amazing how just a few superficial things can really make something look a million bucks. Hope you've sorted out that crane fiasco as Renko is looking like it wants to get wet.

An anagram of 'Renko' is 'Krone'. The currencies of Norway, Denmark and Iceland. Also meaning Crown.

I think thats a fantastic name. I can’t say I by into the superstition of bad luck renaming a boat. I have personally renamed 5 boats in my lifetime and they have all been good no issues. Or at least non I attribute to bad luck!

How many men does it take to name a boat? Depends how many beers have you got.

Thank u Mate for another great video, have a safe trip to U.S. if u come to Port St. Lucie Florida. Look us up, be glad to take you to Dinner our treat! Thanks Robert

The US Coast Guard Cutter Tamaroa was originally the Navy fleet tug Zuni, and she still managed to have a nearly 70 year career. She was the cutter famous from "the perfect storm". If a boat can survive that it can survive anything.

Hey there! Just talked to Jake at Marineengine.com, he mentioned your channel. Looks like your quite the mariner! I told him I would give your channel a shout out on our next video. On our channel, you never know what we'll be working on next is the motto, but I wasn't exactly expecting a boat LOL! But here we are, so we'll own it and get my friend all fixed up. Poor boat looks like it was neglected from day one, but I think we can save it.

Thanks, should have waited till the end before asking.

have been waiting for this, im in the middle of wanting to rename my boat

I wish that you would have for advice prior to applying the lettering. But it does look good. 1. Draw a straight line at the base of the lettering on the application paper. Keep in mind that some letters and fonts will fall below. Eye this well as it's a base for all to follow. 2.easure the entire layout of the belt. To draw another vertical center line. Keep in mind that letters may be different widths. The center of a 5 letter layout might not be the center of the center letter. Again....important. 3. Snap a chalkline for the vertical center. Keep it a light application of chalk. Chalkline is best for all because they are going to absolutely straight and you can extend this straight line out. The longer - the better to view it. 4. Snap any additional horizontal chalklines for your layout. 5. You now have an absolute basis for everything. Tape the decal down and view it. Adjust it from your benchmarks. 6. When you apply the decal, don't get hung up on fractions of an inch/mm. Your lines are good on everything. Just carefully peel the entire backing off the decal away from the surface. 1 person at each end can light attach the decal using the reference lines at each end and at the center. Treat each letter as an individual decal and squeegie each from the center outward. Just one other thing when laying it out. Again.... don't get hung up on mm's. Use major points of reference on the subject. It will be THOSE that dictate how people view your layout. For instance: On a bus, the center of the side might not be between the front and rear bumper. Your front point of reference might be a door. Hope that helps anybody else. I've done countless trucks. Boats or even buildings follow these rules. Edit: Prep: While you were ok with how you prepped, you should use a prepsol to remove any wax for older surfaces. Finish with denatured acohol before application to remove and remaining dirt or skin oils left from laying lines.

Dangar stu have you had any problems or bad luck since you renamed the vessel or do you think the ceremony worked?

Looks good.👍

I live in south Louisiana US and have grown up in boats. Coming from a fishing family, when your outboard breaks you have to fix it yourself. So I have repaired outboards since a teenager. I am now 57 so that’s a lot of fixing. I love and have seen all your videos. Cannot wait until your new ones come out. Someday I would really like to meet you. I just wonder how do you put up with the loud birds?

Good luck, Dave from Florida I hope the boat brings you Adventure enjoy! But don't they all

Ask any graphic designer. You can’t really measure the “correct” position of type because where it looks correct is often not where it measures correct. Where it looks correct depends on what letters you’re using and in what combination, in what shaped space etc - different letters have different weights - compare a “G” to an “i”. So for example if your boat was called “Geni” it’s likely the best position would be slightly to the right of centre to compensate for the big G. You need to determine the centres, see how it looks centred, then probably make minor adjustments to get the overall “weight” of the text in the correct position - a little to the right, or little to the left... Designing and laying out text is an art in itself - weight, leading, letter spacing... You’re right Stu, design by committee, as it’s known in the industry, is never a good idea. But naming party’s are... : )

May Poseidon bring the Renko and his crew safely to port each time ! Another step closer to the finish line !

nice speech stu

Speaking of Neptune, I got to be a double shellback in the US NAVY. First time crossing the equator as a polliwog crawling thru garbage, then as a shellback making the polliwogs crawl. Crazy ceremony I can tell ya.

Glad you did the correct thing for the renaming. My second trip to sea was on a boat thet carried bananas as cargo. There were some misfortunes but none too serious and definitely some good luck. It was a passenger/cargo ship :) One of the navigating rules for sailing from Southhampton to America was to sail south until the butter melts then turn right. I'm sure there was a rule for the west coast of Australia also..

You could always use all the luck you can get. Did you ever see the guy in England digging foam out of the steel boat just to make an office in it you think you had troubles oh my God it's worth watching

Very refreshing to see only positive comments, with no complaints about doing something wrong! Hey, did you use deionized artisanal water in your spray bottle? 😉

am all they way in the bahamas and i will stay up for ur post

Cor! That's a bit dull can you change it again? How about 'More in than Out' or 'Jeezus Wot Now' or the classic 'I'm not Sinking I'm Just Washing my Gunnels'.

You can draw a centre line on the top of the aplication paper for reference ,using the letters to find center, once you are happy with location ,hinge the top of the decal with one long piece of tape ,pin the bottom with two tabs of tape to stop it blowing about , when applying letters take a sharp stanley and cut the tabs at the bottom to release the decal but dont remove it they are now refrences , then start at one end cut vertically from top (but start under your tape hinge) down between letters , flip that letter upside down on the hinge ,remove the backing paper ,lower the letter line the aplication paper up again , squeegy the one letter , move to the next letter repeat . then remove application paper , simple.

Sir you make the most informative videos...glad to see the new video. I need some advice. If you could help I believe it could be helpful to alot of others that have had this problem.

The size of the letters is different, you centered on the center of N, but the KO is larger than the RE.

Chiquita, Bonita or Cavendish would all have been great names ....

Another reason I heard for the superstition involved in renaming a boat, is that the name was carved deeply into the Transom, on wooden sailing ships, to purposefully make it difficult to rename. If the boat was stolen it was a lot of work to cut the transom out, and replacing it and significantly weakened the boat in doing so.

Stu, your killing me with the sweater.... was 106 F here today

Great video! Question: What do you do if the boat had a name and you don't know what it was? The name of the boat that we're restoring was on the transom but was sanded off and we can't find it anywhere in the paperwork or on the hull. Thank you for bringing us along and we'll see ya in the next one

Great name! Almost would have bet on DangarBlu, though :) .. That is probably why I don't gamble!

much beer was consumed and the ceremony was a success.

Where in the USA are you heading to? Maine is a great place to go especially this time of year.

Stu, what the bloody 'ell did you do to the hand mate. You didn't have a mishap with a grinder with an invisible guard by any chance?

One sailboat and it's a cruise. More that one sailboat and it's a race. Which will be first to launch, Rusty Bucket, Dangar Marine, Brupeg or Seeker?

Accuracy suffers with chaos and beer...whodathunkit?

"Fair Winds and Following Seas" MV Renko from Boston, MA USA

nice work mate

where are you going to be when you come to the us? sorry if i missed that bit of info.