Road House is involved in my choice of screen names.
When I bought my first boat I spent a great deal of time trying to come up with a fitting name. The best boat names should have at least three meanings.
The boat I bought was blue and I hated going back to work on Monday. In addition, my days as a club/mobile DJ made me want a name that tied in with music as well. I really liked the Roadhouse soundtrack and the Bob Seger cover of the old Fats Domino tune "Blue Monday" and one day it struck me that Blue Monday would be a great boat name. When I signed up for FR bluemondayskipper was born.
Over the years I added a series of runabouts named Blues Cruz (the kids were young and loved the "Blues Clues" TV show, it was blue, it belonged to the crew of "Blue Monday" and we used it to cruise); The next boat was "Deja Blue" (looked a lot like "Blues Cruz", but bigger) and finally "Deja Blue All Over Again" (another from the same builder that looks like the others).
A few years ago I sold Blue Monday and got a bigger, wider boat (50' x 14'). In keeping with the three meaning requirement (it's big and fat, embodies excess consumption and follows Blue Monday), in late winter of 2007 (February 20, 2007 to be exact), my wife came up with the name for the current boat: "Fat Tuesday".
I'll be keeping this one for the forseeable future and when it's eventually replaced the kids will be gone. Our working name for big boat #3 is "Hump Day" (you can figure the meaning for yourself) LOL
That’s a great story, thanks.
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