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Does bad line cutting karma cancel out an opening day blessing?
Suppose there is a long line at the Opening Day ceremony to get your boat blessed by the USCG Cutter Hawksbill and you have a lunch appointment at Sam's. What do you do?
Remember, you are there for a purely superstitious "blessing." This "blessing" doesn't actually make your season any safer unless you give it blind faith and allow it to give you good luck. So, do you cut in line in front of twenty to thirty boats so that you can get blessed sooner?
This was the case on Sunday. As a fleet of about 50 boats struggled up Raccoon Strait fighting the flood, dozens of boats were scurrying in from the East and South Bays, going right to the back of th line and joining the procession. Just as many were coming from San Francisco and the North Bay, going right down the line and joining in the back.
Then there was one boat that decided they were going to cut in near the front of the line. Then they slowed down not realizing that they had been riding the flood and were now fighting it, causing a chain reaction of near-bumper-boats all the way down the line. By the time we all reached the Hawksbill, there was about a 150 yard gap in front of them.
My real interest is knowing if the blessing actually worked for them. The priest, rabbi, and captain that I saw on board the cutter must have blessed these guys the same as we were blessed. Does the bad karma of cutting the line cancel that out? The only way to find out is see what happens to this boat over the coming year.
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