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Anyone got any pics of different arrangements?

I always thought that the tradition was that you can change a boat/ship's name but don't expect that doing this will change the craft's character - i.e. just renaming an unlucky ship won't improve your fortunes. Didn't think there was anything intrinsically unlucky about renaming. I renamed my first N12 'Beau Pipe' from 'Wet Dream'. The boat was of course a Pipedream, and I wanted to continue the link between name and design, but as a teenager at the time the thought of a boat named after a nocturnal emission was just that little bit too potentially embarassing. 'Pipe' was to be pronounced 'Peep' as in 'Bo Peep' but translating roughly as 'beautiful pipe' (which I rather liked, although no doubt the next French speaker to drop by will confirm that to be correct it should have been 'Belle Pipe', which of course renders the pun inactive). I gather the boat is now called 'Surprise' which is a far better name for a boat.
My old oppo Simon Hipkin built a new Final Chapter and renamed it twice while he still owned it - it was registered as Saline Drip (don't ask me why) before changing very quickly to 'Vlad the Impaler', much more rakish IMO, and after a couple of years to 'Victim of Geography' in deference to his love of Billy Bragg and the subject of his undergrad degree. It's now 'Purple Haze' which is entirely appropriate as the boat was originally finished in a lovely shade of Vauxhall Corsa purple (and presumably still is).

I bought Red Wind from Ian after he had replaced it with his new modified Baggy, I think in 1995. Fitted out slowly, I only really sailed it a few times, the longest run out it had being at the Harwich nationals that year where I did expectedly badly and won the Burton Brick for match racing for last place during all of Tuesday's race only to dead heat last place with (I think) Baggy II 3377. Happy days.

My first 12, bought back in probably 1992 or 93. I had it redecked by Bob Fenton (Harwich Boatcraft) who did a beautiful job with Bruynzeel ply. Renamed 'Beau Pipe'. Found sailing it rather difficult and never had enough time in the boat to do it anything like justice, but there were a couple of times when more by luck than judgement it all seemed to hook up and the boat flew. Other than that, capsized a lot and got very despondent. Would love to know who has it now and what it's doing.