Shelena is now Official
Shelena
Phil Scourfield
Sat 25 Jul 2015 16:26
After the effort of finding the right name, the next task is to embed it in a suitable manner. First you need a small crowd; rent a crowd if necessary. So here is our little crowd of five. Add a bottle or two of bubbly and somebody, me, says something like "I name this good ship Shelena, and may all who sail upon her forever enjoy safe passage". Very straight forward except for the problem of wasting fine champagne on the hull only for the fish to drink it! To the rescue is my cousin Jennifer. We are of Welsh heritage and money is too hard earned to not be wasted so she generously provided us with a quarter sized bottle of champagne just for the purpose. It seemed a little silly to take a photo of such a diminutive bottle and so there is not one. That ceremony completed rapidly permitted the crowd the delight of a full bottle (or two) of the real stuff to enjoy. At the time it seemed the only sensible way. Who likes to waste champagne save for formulae 1 racing drivers and racing cyclist in the Tour de France. Not us!
It is now time to clean the decks. The real reason why we always like a crowd on Shelena!