HELP!!! Can someone give me detailed info about ships/sailboats blessing?

Question

We are organizing an event that requires blessing of the ships/sailboats for a race. Can someone tell me how we go about doing this? It is a very large scale event so we need to hype up even the blessing but I have no idea regarding sailing. Please help....

Answer 1

i put names on boats for a living and we always tell the captains to go get 2 bottles of wine. one for you and your friends and one to pour over board for the gods of the sea.

Answer 2

Go to one of your local churches and arrange for a Pasteur to do the blessing on a certain day. You will kind of be expected to make a donation to the church but if everyone involved puts some money up for the event, then you will have set up a great day for all and money for church and their charities all of which are great causes (and tax deductible if that ain't enough for some). Your blessing is a phone call away.

Answer 3

New Bedford and Gloucester fishermen have been doing this for umpteen centuries now......google "Blessing of the Fleet".

Answer 4

Try a poem instead:

"Sea-Fever"

I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,

And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,

And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,

And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking.

I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide

Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;

And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,

And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,

To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;

And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover

And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

By John Masefield (1878-1967).

Answer 5

Hey now,you might try to get all the boats to tie up next to each other on a dock or pier so your pastor can walk along and bless each boat or position him on a bridge and have all the boats pass under the bridge while the pastor blesses them

Answer 6

Is this symbolic only, or do you want it to work?   there is a difference.   If you want it to work you'll need an authorized Melchizedek priesthood holder.  If it's for show, then you can mock Diety with whomever you please.