Jake Scott sold his charter fishing boat, the Mele Kai, which is Hawaiian for “Song of the Seas,’' a few years back to the drummer of The Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart. That’s a sentence you don’t see very often. It’s also the kind of life Scott led right through his death.
That boat took a dozen of Scott’s friends this winter on one final trip with him off his beloved island of Kauai. First, they laid a wreath with Scott’s picture and a tall Budweiser can in the Pacific Ocean. Then they spread the former Miami Dolphins great’s ashes in the water with a toast.