Stupid name to call a boat.
Agreed, but isn't it also bad luck to rename them?
Many recreational boats these days have jokey names. Miss Adventure, being a play on words, falls into this category. Other common ones include "Unsinkable 2" and "Nauti Lass".
Time was when a boat's name was as important a choice as choosing a name for your child. For warships, a dignified and memorable name was essential. For merchant ships, there was an element of marketing as ships were chosen to carry cargoes at a time when the difference between a "good ship" and a "bad ship" could be weeks extra on the voyage, or the risk of loss of the ship and cargo.
There was (is?) a mariners' superstition that Neptune/Poseidon kept a register of all the ships on the sea. Apart from the effect on marketing if a well-known ship changed her name, there was a belief either that it would anger or confuse the sea god.
There is a "softer" tradition that a ship's name should not be changed
during one owner's tenure. So I could sell you my dinghy, Lookfar, and you could rename her as long as you did so immediately.
In those cases where it is felt expedient to change a vessel's name, there is a tradition that every possible indicator of the old name should be removed. That means remove the name from the bow and stern, replace the bell, and any engraved or otherwise marked items such as life rings, life boats, and so on, as well as on the crew's uniforms. The log book and other ships papers should at least be permanently removed from the boat and ideally burned. Even today, this is sometimes taken very seriously.
There are then various supposed ceremonies which tend to involve beseeching the sea god(s) and the 4 winds to expunge the old name from their records, and to accept the new one. A libation is poured into the sea and onto the vessel. In one version I have read, a virgin has to urinate on the bow of the ship.
Some of these supposed "traditional ceremonies" sound as if they were very recently made up, and some read like a joke, but the basic idea of changing a boat's name being a Big Thing is very real. The sea is a dangerous place and even the most rational sailors are prone to some degree of superstition — a sort of variation on the idea of there being no atheists in foxholes.