‘You Scratched My Anchor’ How the “Caddyshack” yacht has made boating more fun for my family.

By Capt. Jay Oliver

It started with an ad that popped up on my phone. Like many of us, I enjoy looking through boating magazines and dreaming a little, and I have spent many a lunch hour looking at boats on the various brokerage platforms, even when I am not in the market for a boat. This means I get a lot of boating and fishing related content showing up on my phone.

This was different, however. The boat in this ad had some Hollywood history: It was Seafood, the boat Rodney Dangerfield was driving in the 1980 comedy classic “Caddyshack.” The scene will forever be remembered for his quote after he drops his anchor through the classic sailboat of Judge Smails (played by the late Ted Knight), creating a huge hole in the bow with water coming through: “Hey…you scratched my anchor!”

The ad included clips from the movie along with pictures and the specs of the boat, a 1979 60-foot Striker named Seafood with its original, but overhauled, 12v71 Detroit engines.

I wasn’t really looking for a boat at the time. However, if I was to be honest and think how my family was boating and fishing, it probably was time for a bigger boat.  My boat at the time was a 1988