Wow, great story. My first boat was similar to what you described. She was a
tired I/O, that ran good, but the vinyl was just worn looking, and the hull
had a few too many meetings with the dock. I'm sure my son felt the same way
as that little girl, and we sure had a lot of fun in that boat. Now we have
a new boat (last spring), but he asks me on occasion if the folks that
bought our old boat were taking good care of her. I assured him that they
were... It was their first boat as well. There's nothing like your first
boat!

--Mike

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Good deal too!


The good deal is the look on your face typing this right now.
Congratulations...(c;

I was at Bushy Park, a public boat landing with two sides on an earthen
dam
on the Cooper River in Charleston. I docked my boat on the public pier
and
parked the car. When I got back, just across from my boat was an old
runabout that had seen better days with a tired old 2-stroker hanging off
the back....

A little girl was sitting in the passenger's seat of weathered plastic.
She smiled at me as I walked up to get in my boat and said, "Hey, mister.
How do you like my dad's new boat!", waving her hand across the gelcoat
like those models you see in a car commercial....

Of all 8 boats tied up on the dock, some costing over $30K I'm sure, that
old runabout was about the finest boat in South Carolina. All you had to
do was ask her! As I drove away to go downriver, Daddy was coming down
the
dock and I saw her jump up out of the finest boat in SC to meet him.

Man, that was one wonderful boat......(c;....much nicer than mine.....