As you may have guessed, my boat's name is based on a Lucille Ball / Desi
Arnez-produced 1960’s failed train-wreck NBC television series . . .
. . . which led to highly-rated syndication, five spin-off television series
and 12 feature films, not to mention decades and decades of merchandising
dollars for Paramount/Viacom.
For me, though, the Starship Enterprise was an “escape vehicle” — when I got
home from grade school in the 70s, I could leave all the pressures and troubles
behind, turn on WPIX channel 11, and I’ll be exploring the final frontier’s
strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilizations . . .
In 1980, I bought my first sailboat, an O’Day 7-11 sailing dinghy, pretty much
right after the release of The Motion Picture, a wholly lousy film on may
levels, except for the Enterprise itself. Once again, I felt my imagination was
able to escape the day-to-day life in suburbia. There could be no other name.
The sailboat had to be named Enterprise.
When I turned 18, after I got the whole “you’re a man now” speech from my
father, I aptly decided to cut school to see the third movie with some friends
for my birthday, and got the worst birthday present ever — the Enterprise
exploded from self-destruct over Planet Genesis. My escape vehicle was gone.
Adulthood slapped me in the face - hard.
Fortunately, a couple of years later, I went to see the fourth feature film - a
time-travel story to rescue humpback whales from 20th-Century earth. At the
very end, Kirk and crew were delivered to a brand new Enterprise with a hull
number of NCC-1701-A. The escape vehicle was back and my imagination could, one
again, boldly go.
Since then, we have seen several future versions of the famed starship; 1701-B,
1701-C, 1701-D, 1701-E and even a brief glimpse of the 1701-J.
So, like the series, I decided that all of my future vessels will also carry
the name Enterprise, and I’ll have my very own escape vehicle to get away from
the pressure of work and life while exploring LI Sound and the surrounding
areas.
As I tell my crew, when sailing on the Enterprise, we have one Prime Directive
— Wherever we go, we go boldly.
All the best,
Edd
Edd M. Schillay
Starship Enterprise
C&C 37+ | Sail No: NCC-1701-B
City Island, NY
Starship Enterprise's Captain's Log
> On Mar 6, 2014, at 8:46 AM, Maturo, John <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I once raced on Lake St. Clair, Michigan, 1977 or 78, against a boat named
>> Fujimo and we T-boned her on a crossing tack in about 25 knots of air. The
>> helmsman, a nationally ranked Finn sailor could not release the main and the
>> rudder would not respond in time. We put about a 2 ft diameter hole in her
>> stern quarter and knocked a crew member overboard. Lots of colorful
>> language and an interesting protest meeting. Our damage was limited to a
>> bent bow pulpit. We were sailing an Erickson 37 named Gold Bug.
>>
>> My boat, formerly Spirit now 'Ashe is a Yoruba expression for we get it
>> done. I am not a scholar of things African, but my mentor, Robert Thompson,
>> was a professor of African Art and Music. I lived under his "protection" in
>> the feudal halls of Yale when he was a Master of a college.
>>
>> John Maturo
>> 'Ashe, Baltic 39
>>
_______________________________________________
This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album
http://www.cncphotoalbum.com
[email protected]
