Story behind your V20 handle

nipper · #1 11-23-2009, 06:08 PM

I have often wondered about the story behind some of the "handles" (old cb radio term) or usernames used here on the WellcraftV20.com site. Some are, of course, easy. For example, I assume Willy's handle is Willy because that is his name. Anyone care to share the story behind their handle/username?

Mine is Nipper because that is the name of the V20 Cuddy I inherited from my Dad. Dad had worked almost his entire career for RCA. The RCA symbol for years was the little dog listening to the old record player with the line "his master's voice." The dog's name was Nipper.

RWilson2526 · #2 11-23-2009, 06:45 PM

This was the first forum I ever signed up for....If I had any idea the lame screen name I was putting in was going to identify me for all time I would have taken the time to come with something a little catchy.

phatdaddy · #3 11-23-2009, 07:02 PM

about 10 years ago, we were snorkling with our kids in our 13' whaler. when i would swing up on the side of the boat, my 5 year old son would say "hang on, fatdaddy gettin in". i tried to register as fatdaddy but it was taken, so i substituted phatdaddy. no i am not a hip hop rapster....

randlemanboater · #4 11-23-2009, 07:31 PM

I live in Randleman, I have a boat.

garagenc · #5 11-23-2009, 08:04 PM

I've always had a big garage where ever I lived if it didn't have a big garage I built one.
Everyone always referred to me as the guy in the neighborhood with the big detached garage.
So when I started signing up for forums I usually couldn't sign up as garage so I used garagenc living in North Carolina.

Not very catchy but it works.

NOTHING ELSE MATTERS · #6 11-23-2009, 09:31 PM

Nothing Else Matters, is what really feel when i'm on the water and got inspired by the BEST rock group outhere, METALLICA. What a great song.

Oh, i name most of my boats NOTHING ELSE MATTERS, one of them was "THE UNFORGIVEN"

evilgli · #7 11-23-2009, 09:42 PM

evilgli is from one of my cars.. it used to be evilgti.. i'm a master VW tech, so one of my other hobbies is building stupid fast VW's.. the first one was a 1984 GTI with a built turbo engine..the license plate said (EVILGTI).. sold that car and built a 1989 Jetta GLI with a engine swap and big turbo and other goodies..the license plate said (EVILGLI)..since i signed up for this site with that name.. that car got parted out after a deer jumped out in front of me one night.. so now i have a 1998 Jetta GLX with a built VR6 turbo engine..the license plate is (EVILGLX)..

spareparts · #8 11-23-2009, 10:36 PM

I ended up with a project 21 Pursuit, I started collecting parts to put it together, all of them being spare parts from other jobs or projects,so it got named spare parts, never finished the Pursuit, didn't have the time or the money to do it the way I wanted to so I traded it for a 17 Mitchell. The spareparts name stuck around, but the Pursuit didn't, I named the Mitchell "the turd"(it was brown and it floated), figured I would keep the spare parts name for online activities(better than the turd). Sold the Mitchell after finishing it and figured out it was too tippy for the family to walk around it, took the money and bought the V, started on it, but some how the Mckee(haven't named it yet) got in the way(its allmost finished, so back to the V)

charlie_the_tuna · #9 11-23-2009, 11:34 PM

my middle name is charles and i love tuna fishing.
not quite as riviting as randle's story but pretty good anyway.

macojoe · #10 11-24-2009, 01:19 AM

In 1995 I was with a friend Cod fishing 30 miles out when I caught a Mako shark. Then my friends started to call me Mako Joe. When on the computer said Mako was taken all the time I changed it to Maco and my name Joe, and the rest is history