by captain picard » Sat Feb 06, 2016 1:23 pm
Shaink, very nice job on your restoration, you have a beautiful boat but you MAY have been mis-informed as to its history. I'm not in a position to tell you what your boats history is, but what I can confirm with 100% certainty is that it is not "MOE".
Moe is the name of an individual boat, not a series of boats. Moe's hull was built by Stitch for a guy named Smitty. Smitty was in possession of this hull until Roger Kehoe purchased it from him. While in Roger's possession the boat found its name. One day Roger was asked which boat he was going to use for an outing. Unsure which boat to choose Roger pointed at each of his boats saying "Innie, Minnie, Miney" with his finger pointing at the boat now known as Moe.
Sometime later Roger and Explorer Industries collaborated on a boat style that could be frequently produced. They used some of Moe's lines and styling as influence to what is know as a "186". Roger also created a boat named "Black" with influence from Moe's lines. Sometime after Black was created Roger sold Moe back to its creator, Stitch. Stitch and family own Moe to this day.
Shaink, your boat has many attributes that are similar to Moe and hence the confusion.