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Sometimes I think there's irony that some of the "boats" we own today, were the "yachts" of our parents generation. 
In Response To: My dad put my brother and me, age about 5 & 6, in a rented rowboat ()
My boat may have sailed by my parents when they were young, and it was new, 50 years ago. A completely untouchable thing, then, for them.
Now today, I can buy it or many others for less than the cost of many new cars, and use it for years if I choose. The boat hasn't changed that much except for it's relative monetary value.
Isn't that odd?
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- How did you come to love boats and the sea?
- It runs in the family...
- I'm pretty sure it all started with Sea Hunt...
- Went snow skiing and stood in a lift line for and hour.
- I was born into it
- Grew up on Narragansett Bay
- A friend told me that ...
- It is in the genes...
- I don't love the sea
- In my case my love of boating comes from several sources...
- Good question. Don't know!
- My dad put my brother and me, age about 5 & 6, in a rented rowboat
- Sometimes I think there's irony that some of the "boats" we own today, were the "yachts" of our parents generation.
- Sometimes I think there's irony that some of the "boats" we own today, were the "yachts" of our parents generation.
- Grew up near the ocean but never sailed till adulthood
- At 22, gal and I had a rubber raft at a lake....
- Didn't have a choice
- My first boat, when I was 7 or 8 years old, was an 8' plywood rowing pram
- Blame it on Nan.
- I was born a rigger, here's me on my first solo rigging inspection...
- I grew up around the water.
- The love came late, but then...