What is your name of your boat and why? Mine is "Wizard" . Named it because all by buddies call my old man the wizard and it just stuck offshore many years ago. Thats how it got named.
“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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"Leave Me Alone" It was meant as a hint to my fishing buddies who are always chatting on the radio. I hope the fish can't read...apparently my buddies can't!
Like with everything to do with fishing this is my name. Friends started calling me mako after I caught a Mako Shark back in 1995. My real name is Joe so it just fit!!
I spell it different as when I first started to use the internet all the mako spellings were used up.
A fair tide is a tidal current that is running at the same heading as the course your boat is running, (fair winds, fair tides....) always a nice thing!
When I was in high school, I started at the Cape Tech in the commercial fisheries program. The training vessel was named "Fair Tide" and I always thought it had a nice ring to it.
My mother gave me that name 'cause when I was young I would tend to wonder into the house as the birds were beginning to chirp just before daylight. Like a tomcat, get it?!?! I, in turn, passed it on to my boats over the years.
Its a secret between me and my dad (may he rest in peace).
But its a name he would have greatly approved of.
To this day, very few people know what it means.
Cause I don't tell them.
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Things done at the last possible minute are done with the greatest possible information. Procrastination is, therefore, the most efficient means of doing things.
Also another name for a black hole. All of my boats have sucked money out of my pocket like a black hole.
Also, the Northcoast logo is this 12point star, in dark red, so that had some meaning too.
I will share a funny story:
The very first time I am launching my new boat. It is early May 2006. a friend and I bring the boat down to the ramp in East Greenwich. Here is a picture at the ramp from that day:
So anyway, we drop the boat in, get the trailer parked, start to motor out, and the very first boat, and I mean FIRST boat we see.....:
I thought I had come up with a great and original name!!! GUESS NOT!
Anyway, we continued out to Sally Rocks where I caught the first bass on my boat, nothing to brag about, but a start to some great memories on the Dark Star:
My Granddad named his boats after his sons - "Don-BoJo" so my dad has named his boats after my sister and I.
Thought it was pretty cool when I was 7, not so much now that I'm 35 and run the boat myself alot. On the occassion I talk on the radio "Laura-Jay -- this is Jay" -- sounds pretty silly.
When I got out of high school in 1980 I bought a 20' whaler outrage I paid something like 8k for it, and when my dad found out he said "it looks like you are in the hole with that one", so I named the boat In The Hole and when I stepped up to a 27' Aquasport a few years back I was still in the hole, so the name stuck.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day ...
show him where to fish and ... you'll be sorry
I had a sailboat that i almost named 'BLOW ME' but my family had a come to jesus talk with me and convinced me not to do it. I was going to name the dingy the hand job...
our mako is salty dog though we never put the name on the boat...
My main occupation is finish carpentry and interior cabinetry.Attachment 27303
I do remodeling and finish work also. So I have to share this with you...
“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
At 16 I owned "Flying Cloud" a 17' speed boat with the straight up 2 stroke 6 cyl, 3 carb merc. No transmission, it stopped and ran backwards for reverse. At 21 mom owned "Beyonda Budget" trihull ski boat. I'm down to a 12' alum and a 14' long deep side jon boat I call the "barge".
A small price for being spoiled with regards to all things domestic, AND having a free pass to go out to fish virtually anytime I want. (Ask Luds, he knows.) Did I mention it was part of my 50th surprise?
“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
I've been trying to come up with one, I liked 'The Stinky Eel" which someone proposed for Nebe's boat awhile back, wife was not a fan.
I have been thinking about "Pressure Drop"
a Toots and the Maytal's tune that I always have in my head when I fish.
My mother gave me that name 'cause when I was young I would tend to wonder into the house as the birds were beginning to chirp just before daylight. Like a tomcat, get it?!?! I, in turn, passed it on to my boats over the years.
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