Top 7 Fictional Boats

Fictional boats have some advantages over real life boats. Any time you want to, you can curl up with a good maritime adventure novel, or spend a couple of hours watching movie at the theatre or at home. And you can do so without fear of running out of gas (unless it’s dramatically expedient), needing to pay boat insurance, or spending time and money maintaining the boat.

While I suspect all boat lovers have their own favorites, here are our top 7 boats that never were:

The Love Boat. OK, it’s cheesy, but it was the ‘70s, and everything was cheesy. And, let’s face it, who wouldn’t want to spend some time on a boat where all of your romance problems could be solved in an hour?The Red October. I don’t care who you are, if you love boating, you’ve dreamt about being aboard a submarine. And being aboard a defecting Russian submarine during the height of the Cold War is just plain bad ass.St. Vitus’ Dance. Sonny Crockett’s sailboat home for the duration of the Miami Vice series. Of course, if you prefer to go a little faster, the Chris Craft Stinger-390 or the Scarab 38 KV that the Miami Vice used over the course of the series are pretty cool, too. And if you’re in the market for a special Don Johnson Signature Series Scarab Excel, it’ll only set you back $300,000. Not bad for a boat powered by twin Lamborghini V-12 engines.Orca. In all reality, it was just a modified commercial fishing boat, and there wasn’t much of it left by the time the credits rolled, but in the end, the crew of the Orca killed the 40’ great white shark.H.M.S. Bounty. This admittedly was a real ship, but the accounts of the mutiny aboard have certainly been fictionalized, or at the very least, exaggerated. C’mon, though, admit it. Everyone who has ever had a boss has had that moment where you would have liked to lead a mutiny and set him adrift.The Hispaniola. If you’ve never dreamed of sailing to distant uncharted islands to recover buried treasure, then get the hell of the boat and leave the water to us dreamers. Do remember, though, that loose lips sink ships. And never, ever hire a cook with one leg. We don’t care what the Disability Act says. Wonder what the boat insurance looks like on a treasure expedition?Tom Sawyer’s raft. What could be better than spending day after lazy day drifting down the river helping a runaway slave escape? Tom Sawyer couldn’t think of anything, which is why he didn’t bother to tell Old Tom that he had been set free until after the journey was over.

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