Passing Of Carolina’s Chip Berry…. Offshore Innovator

For those that knew Chip Berry would agree that he was one of a kind. With his never-ending smile to his love the ocean, he was a man that lived his live on his own terms. Those terms included making friends with nearly everyone that he encountered. With Chip, his conversations were seldom short and never boring. And nearly every conversation, Chip came with a great idea. And low and behold most of them were great, to say the least.

Chip loved the ocean and all that was in it. He knew it like the back of his hand. Few knew it better than he. However, you didn’t have to be around him long to realize that while Chip’s love for the ocean, his real love was for those around him, his family and friends as well all those that he met over his years in and around the ocean.

He was friends to many people and more than I will ever be able to count. The only thing he loved more than talking about fishing to all that reached out to him over the years was his love and dedication to his family. It was a love that is rarely seen in today’s world. When I woke up the day after Chip’s passing, I found myself in a world, a little less bright and little less kind, because it was a world without Chip Berry, my friend.

However, after thinking things over, I realized that my good friend Chip Berry had “exited the inlet and into the hands of ”GOD”. Today, I’m a far better person for having known him! With that, the smile returned to my face. Chip would have wanted it that way.

Thanks Chip for Making the World a Better Place
Captain Tim Wilson
Editor, Angler & Sportsman Magazine