EVENT HORIZON OFFICIALLY NAMED!!

[aaronbocknek]

well, it's official, my 1976 F-32 has officially been renamed EVENT HORIZON with all the pomp and circumstance that would make even neptune happy. here is a direct link to my photobucket site so you can see the new name that was completed late yesterday afternoon. also, there are pics of my new cockpit cover that was installed two weeks ago.
let me know what you all think. oh, and just an fyi..... even though her water line is currently painted black (might change to trojan blue in the spring) the reason i chose the color scheme and type face (sanserif block) is a dedication to the typeface and color scheme of the trojan f-36 tricabin i grew up on. right down to the 32 degree slant to starboard.
enjoy....
aaron,phil and mccabee
http://www.photobucket.com/event_horizon_f32

[MattSC]

Congratulations! The name came out really nice, it's a nice looking boat. Best wishes,
Matt
On a sad note I hauled out for the season yesterday, the positive I am all winterized and starting on my spring commisioning...

[prowlersfish]

Looks great !! Got to ask any meaning to the name ? ( there is always a story behind a name )I know there are 5 other boats (docmented ) wth that name (thats not many ) . I do like the name .

[aaronbocknek]

hi matt, hi paul, like naming a child or a puppy, it's not easy. i had to 'see' the personality of the boat first i guess. i was going to name it SALTY DAWG with a painting of our boston terrier in between the two but thought that was too common....and it was. i was also tossing around MACCABEE'S TEMPLE, in honor of our boston and then i was also thinking about BUBALA IV as a tribute to the trojan tri cabin and the 4th boat in the bocknek family but then again, i said to myself, ''this is my legacy and i want something different." i was watching an episode of STAR TREK: VOYAGER, and, well, yes i admit it freely, im a huge sci fi weenie i heard capt janeway hail a vessel ...... ''this is the federation starship voyager hailing the vessel in the event horizon, please respond." like a light bulb going off i thought, that's it. from now on, her name shall be EVENT HORIZON. i love science fiction, i love astronomy, so why not combine that with my love of boating? and, the correct def of an event horizon is as follows...... In general relativity, an event horizon is a boundary in spacetime, an area surrounding a black hole or a wormhole, inside which events cannot affect an outside observer. Light emitted from inside the horizon can never reach the observer, and anything that passes through the horizon from the observer's side disappears. it could also be a tongue in cheek meaning for something that sucks money and time away from it's owner too..... (have you all noticed that when we are at our respective boats time seems to either slip away or just stand still?) but that is neither here nor there....

i'm glad you all like the way the name came out. and how about that new aft curtain? the guy did a hell of a good job.

aaron, phil and maccabee

[mr elevman]

that was the name on my boat when we bought her she was recristened july of this year persepheone (godess of fertility and queen of the under world)

[MattSC]

Thats a pretty good story behind the name. Your canvas guy did do a nice job on your aft curtain. I agree with you that it's difficult coming up with a name for the boat, and yep they do have their "own" personality. It took me 2 yrs to come up with a name for my boat, and it pretty much fit. When I first bought her, I had several projects to do. Everyone kept telling me, Oh thats no problem....well as some of you have experienced, little projects turn into major ones and thats how my boat earned her name, "No Problem"

[LSP]

Aaron .... thanks for sharing the pictures with the rest of us. Tomorrow will be my last day on the water this season. It's going to be a long 4 - 5 months.

[prowlersfish]

You guys are only a hundred miles or so north of me and you got to pull you boats for the winter ?

[aaronbocknek]

hi paul, how's it going? i elected to keep her in the water this winter. what can i say, i'm from the old school that thinks the hull is better supported in the water or her original shipping cradle. i keep seeing these huge boats hauled out at the marina down the street from mine, shrink wrapped from stem to stern and i look at those jacks supporting the keels and the chines and i have to wonder what kind of stresses are put on those hulls. if just one is out of kilter, there could be major damage. dad NEVER hauled the tri cabin out for the winter and we were the very first (1972) to use a bubbler system suspended under our 31' 1969 broadwater. that year we kept not only our slip clear, but three others. i hear several schools of thought, one being ''the boat needs to dry out etc....." my marina has a bubbler system, and with the shrink wrap on the bridge, and the aft curtain, she should be okay. i do hear, ''well, your deck core is going to turn to mush then if you dont haul and shrink wrap everything", but i figure, if the front deck becomes soft this winter, when she is hauled in the spring for bottom paint and new sea cocks, ill have edwards redo the core from bow to front hatch. if that is done, especially the new cores used, then i might just get another few years out of her. what do you think?
aaron

[LSP]

.....don't want to change the original subject here, but the only reason I have mine hauled is the fact that I'm in a shallow creek (normally 4ft at the end of my dock) and as winter sets in, I have a number of days / weeks that the water is almost completely gone. I don't like having her sit in the ice on the bottom....there's not even enough water for a bubbler. It's much easier on my mind having her grounded during those times. I'd love to leave her in a little longer ... marinas in this area have deadlines for pulling.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[aaronbocknek]

hey LSP...come over to parkside next off season. there is always room available and it is in a great area. would like to be kept company by another '76 F32.