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• How did you come to love boats and the sea?
  • It runs in the family...
    • "It runs in the family", I think that's the key for many of us.
      • My Father, and some distant ancestors.
        • Wow! What a great history Kevin.
  • I'm pretty sure it all started with Sea Hunt...
    • You too? Pretty sure that's where my family started too
  • Went snow skiing and stood in a lift line for and hour.
    • Ow! I have your revenge Dan.
      • Um, I beg to differ, Tom
        • You only laughed because you were safely uphill from me.
      • Cute photo. But where's her body? All I see is a good looking blond head hanging above the snow.
    • Thought I was going to get mugged at Sugarbush.
      • Memories
  • 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.
      • Well the physics of water and wind have not changed...
  • Grew up near the ocean but never sailed till adulthood
    • I took my wife sailing on our first date. That was her first sail.
      • Usually you can spot the less harmonious couples during the anchor or docking drills (grin)
    • Same for my other half, too
  • 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
    • Me too....
    • I , too
  • 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...
    • I like that! I'll be saving that one Jim