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Me too....
In Response To: My first boat, when I was 7 or 8 years old, was an 8' plywood rowing pram 
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() mine was a sailing pram....I saved up and my dad and I went to the NY boat show in '57 or '58 and bought it as a kit and built it together. Lot's of fond memories on that little boat.
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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
- 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
- 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...