For the last couple of months I've been thinking of buying another boat.  I already have 2 boats.  I use one of them for crabbing and the river and the other boat I use in the Chesapeake Bay.  The boat that I have been using in the Bay is 28 ft. It's kind of low sided and light but it's pretty fast.  All of that is good as long as it doesn't get rough. Well I've been caught out there several times this year when it got rough and each time I was 10 to 20 miles from home. I hate to admit this but I'm getting old and being beat up in a boat is not something that I felt as though I could do any more so I started looking for a new one. I called places up and down the Bay asking questions to whoever would listen about the type of boat I was looking for.Well I finally found one in Gloucester that met my desires. She is a 35 ft. Evans, built in Crisfield, MD and powered with a 3208 Cat diesel.If you noticed above I said, "She is". A boat is a she so she needs a she name.This presents a problem. I have always said that you shouldn't name a boat after your wife. That’s like getting your girlfriends name tattooed on your arm. You know what I mean. If you break up with her you're always reminded by the tattoo. Same thing is true with a boat. You could sell the boat but that would be like selling your dog.I thought that I could name her “Plaintiff” after all my wives and it would cover me of anything in the future. That sounded like pretty good logic until I thought with a name like that someone might think I was a lawyer.I’ve been called some pretty bad things before but never a lawyer.Well I ended up naming her “Carol M” after my oldest daughter Carol Mead.Saturday I bought her up the Bay at 16 knots turning 2500 RPMs in 2-3 foot seas and I was just as comfortable as I would have been at home in the recliner.