Cool stuff! It seems like the company is nautically spirited, maybe some sort of functional hole toward the very back of the grip since this portion of the knife isn’t used by Chefs anyway from what I understand. This way you could hang the knife up on a hook in your “galley” so the waves of the stormy seas don’t knock it off the table. Boaters love to tie stuff to stuff so maybe this hole could also be used to tie on a string to it doesn’t go overboard, a little story might add a lot! 