Being a dockhound in every port in Alaska, Washington, and Oregon, I've seen some doozies. But the best of times on a boat was on the Scrappy, Brian King's out of Cordova. She sure was. And so was he. 

Kodiak is resplendent with crazy names. The barge Fugawe? As in: Where the Fugawe? And every seiner is a "Someone" Marie as in every girl in Kodiak has the middle name Marie. A joke off the Japanese Maru. I wanted a boat named the Marie Marie...