No bananas!

[outcast]

Supposed to bad luck to bring a banana on a boat. Anybody ever hear of this and how did it get started?

[Jordan]

fished with a guy who always brought 5 apples..... IDK *** was up with that.... sometimes he would eat 1 or 2, but never all 5 ????

[southern151]

Jordie, he knew you'd be glad to eat the other 3!

[Shawn Braquet]

Originally Posted by outcast

Supposed to bad luck to bring a banana on a boat. Anybody ever hear of this and how did it get started?

every charter boat that I've been on has asked if any of us were carrying a banana on the boat!! Said the same thing, bad luck!

[Lake Chuck Duck]

I have heard it and experienced it. One time I brought a banana on the boat and I ended up fallin in the water in about a foot of water. Landed on my feet but my shoes, socks, and pants got all nasty. Purple Back knows he was there.

[Jordan]

Originally Posted by southern151

Jordie, he knew you'd be glad to eat the other 3!

naaa, i dont like apples....... i asked him, he said that it brought good luck ???

[Red Devil]

Found on the web.There are many theories on why people believe bananas are bad luck for a boat. One superstition is that boats carrying bananas don't catch fish. The origin of this belief dates back to the Caribbean trade of the 1700s. The wooden sailing boats of that time had to move quickly to deliver bananas before they spoiled, and fishermen had a hard time trolling for fish on such fast-moving boats, which is how the superstition came about. Another superstition that originated during that time is that bananas will cause a boat to sink. This belief developed after many boats never made it to their destinations, and all of the doomed boats were carrying bananas.
One of the creepier superstitions is that banana cargo could actually kill a man. In actuality, fermenting bananas do give off methane gas, which could conceivably get trapped below deck and kill any crew members unlucky enough to be working in the hold. Another popular theory was that venomous spiders hitched rides in bananas, and once those bananas were onboard, the boat would be host to any number of lethal critters. And then, of course, there's the theory that banana peels cause crew members to slip and fall on deck [source: Attah].

[specktator]

My uncle's partner in their camp was telling me a story last summer about how he brought a banana on a guide (a woman named Leena I believe) boat on the lake. They were at the weirs and he pulled it out and started eating it. He said she starting flipping out. That was the first I heard of it.

[Jordan]

im blaming my $4500 repair on my boat motor on the banana's, who do i sue ??

[specktator]

Originally Posted by Jordan

im blaming my $4500 repair on my boat motor on the banana's, who do i sue ??

Chiquita!

[Jordan]

Originally Posted by specktator

Chiquita!

***** !!!

[PReaux]

Well then, what's up with Banana Boat suntan lotion? . . . always some hot chicks gettin' rides on Superyachts and they got the stuff all over them . . . guess it's a matter of length . . . the boats, that is . . . just saying

[Feesherman]

Originally Posted by PReaux

Well then, what's up with Banana Boat suntan lotion? . . . always some hot chicks gettin' rides on Superyachts and they got the stuff all over them . . . guess it's a matter of length . . . the boats, that is . . . just saying

It's suntan lotion, not a banana.

[outcast]

Thanks Red Devil! First time i ever heard it was on city limits fishing with Iaconelli.

[gonzalesdave]

Originally Posted by outcast

Thanks Red Devil! First time i ever heard it was on city limits fishing with Iaconelli.

Hope you learned more from Ike than not to take a banana on the boat. You should be preparing yourself for some green trout smackdown!!

[outcast]

Originally Posted by gonzalesdave

Hope you learned more from Ike than not to take a banana on the boat. You should be preparing yourself for some green trout smackdown!!

I learned that ike is a wigger and bass fishing is for wusses

[Dink]

I was telling Montauk while we were on the charter That I was renaming my boat "banana boat"

[PUREBAY2200]

Originally Posted by Dink

I was telling Montauk while we were on the charter That I was renaming my boat "banana boat"

U mean "banana hammock"??? Lol

[FF_T_Warren]

I experienced it on a charter trip once. we brought bananas and the captain was like you know thats bad luck right. We were like- Ah!! We dont believe in that. He said well its up to yall. And I'll be dang if we didnt have more things go wrong on that trip than you can imagine. Finally we chunked those bananas as far as we could and everything went smooth after that. I dont really believe in superstition but I will never bring bananas fishing again.

As far as its origin I always heard it was from back in the days of shipping the bananas on boats and spiders would hide in the bunches. then come out on the boat and bite crew members and they would die. therefore bananas being bad luck on a boat

[Capt.B]

You put bananas in a boat...everything goes bannas!!!