Fifty-footitis

The trout won't stand a chance!

There's a term in boating called 'two footitis'. It's a disease. You buy a boat and within a year or two you start suffering from two footitis. You want a bigger boat, perhaps two feet bigger, which makes quite a difference in roominess.

The boat in this image, Whitetail, is a cure for the disease. It's a custom made lobster fishing boat that's 50 feet long and 24 feet wide. I used to have a powerboat, Maud, which was 23 feet long. Whitetail is wider than Maud was long.

It's a good thing that I got rid of Maud before Whitetail arrived on the lake. Twenty footitis wouldn't have cured me. Whitetail lives just down the lake from me during the off-season for lobster fishing. She makes other boaters, and trout and lobster, nervous.