Re: Boat names.
not sure I really ever told the story of how my biggest of three boats, a 16 footer named "mad max" got it's name. if you've seen the movie, you'll get my story. first, in the movie there were all these cosmetically ugly, but dangerously functional vehicles from a post-apocalyptic era. and my boat fits that to a tee. it was painted by the previous owners teenage kids in a warship gray camouflage using rustoleum cans. the trailer is bent and rusty, but strong and tracks true. it is covered in overspray in gray and black and white from the craptastic paint massacre of the boat. the boat is stark, with a $15 bilge pump and a tach, but light and sleek, with a 135hp evinrude that's also maritime camo. they did carefully protect the "135 evinrude" logo though. so anyway my rig would have fit right in in "mad max" the movie. BUT there's more! in the movie, "max" was a good guy, with a nice family, who was menaced by a gang and their menacing machines. shortly after I bought it, I moved it from my beach town out to the lake, where the wifes grandparents live. I stopped just outside Vegas for some gas and food. the only parking spot I could find was right next to this nice, bantam weight bass rig. a 19 footer with a 90hp merc on it. when i got done eating, the owner did too, and he'd had his nice wife and nice little boy and grandma with him, and they were loading up right as i was. and there was my ugly, but purposeful, smaller, lighter, boat with a good deal more power than his, with the very prominent "135 evinrude " logos, "menacing" him and his nice family. not to mention, I was probably a little scraggly having gone surfing before i hit the road with my boat and did no grooming afterwards. I still had salt water in my uncombed hair.
it was only after that that I named her the mad max.
-Peter
