Why the name,”Blue Goose”?
Nearly everyone asks that question. It goes back to when I was a young boy and used to visit Ocean City, New Jersey each summer in the late 40’s and early 50’s. Chris’s Restaurant had converted a surplus World War II PT boat into a huge, open speed boat, carrying about 50 people. I had (incorrectly) recalled her name as being the “Wild Goose”, which was, as it turns out upon further research, a fishing boat in the same fleet. Nevertheless, the memory of riding in the custom PT boat remains one my fondest. Alexis and I named our very first personal boat the “Blue Goose”, mostly because of the PT boat, the personal notion that “goose” is a cool name for certain types of rigs, including trawlers, my and my wife’s fondness for waterfowl, especially the Canada geese on the Chesapeake Bay, the fact that the name is ornithologically correct, sort of, and because blue is our favorite color. The name was simply carried over to the yacht charter service. topCLR.
