During the build of my custom Gloucester Light Dory, I encountered many challenges. After several prototypes and exploiting colorful words from multiple languages to express my emotions, I conquered each challenge. Ironically, selecting a name for my boat was the most challenging of all. I had no shortage of boat names. For example, “Buoyancy Experiment”, since this was my first boat build. And “Portuguese Power”, since this is a row boat! A clever boat name is not enough to float my boat.

Argo was the name of an ancient Greek ship with fantastic features and capabilities. My custom Gloucester Light Dory has unique features, yes. But, this is not why I named my boat Argo. During the most critical phase of my boat build, I was leading a globally distributed software test automation team. The name of my team was: Argo. Around the time that I completed my boat build, my team merged with another team, and took on a new name. I hence named my boat Argo.