Well mine goes back about 32 years to when I was 8 years old. I needed a handle for the CB.
I liked driving my Dad's boat down the river real fast, and I always dreamed of having a ski boat with a big block chevy in it, better known as a "rat" motor.
Hence the name riVeRraT.
My first radio control boat was named that, and all boats I owned to this day are still named riVeRraT