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Nice looking boat. The upholstery and exterior labeling on Starship Enterprise are bold. Is that a drop keel or shoal draft? Is first mate commonly known as Spock to the crew? How about "wherever we go, we have fun" that's my prime directive nowadays. _____ From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Edd Schillay Sent: March 6, 2014 11:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Stus-List Now Boat Names 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 <http://enterpriseb.blogspot.com/> 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
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