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Boat godmothers
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Boat godmothers
It is pretty standard stuff for kids to have godparents, but did we miss the memo about boats having them? Maybe there is something in the Volvo Ocean Race sailing instructions that each entry must designate a godmother, as the last two launchings have had them. First it was the splashy Hollywood style launching of the PUMA team’s VO 70 - named ‘il mostro’( aka The Monster) - with goddess Salma Hayek as the boat’s godmother. Now Team Russia christened its boat Kosatka, (Russian for Orca, Killer Whale), and have designated Birgitta Westerberg, co-founder of the Solntse (Sun) Foundation charity for sick and underprivileged children in St Petersburg, as godmother to the boat. Does anybody know if the rules are the same for boat godmothers as they are for person godmothers? While it is easy to be dazzled by the PUMA graphics and marketing muscle, how about the Russian team breaking slightly from tradition, with the christening attendees toasting the boat not with champagne but with a shot of Nemiroff vodka. Full Story »
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