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Boats
When I was just a small kid, My father, who enjoyed working with wood
but hated anything to do with the water, built me a boat. Actually just an 8' pram. But I spent many hours learning to sail it and then many more enjoyable days sailing it around the small bay behind our home. One summer, when I was about 12. I painted a few houses in the area and earned enough to buy a used sunfish. What an upgrade that was from the little pram! With the sunfish I got my first taste of racing and eventually moved on to larger boats, although I could never afford one of my own. During college, I raced 505's and we did quite well. After college I had my first real job and my first major purchase was not a car (I had a Vespa scooter) I purchased a capri 25 racing boat, this was before Catalina turned their line of boats into a plastic boat for the family. Eventually I got married and put the boating on hold for awhile to raise a couple of kids who seemed to have about as much interest in watersports as my dad did. However I did manage to obtain a 32' Pearson which I kept for several years. I cruised Maggie Mae along the Atlantic Coast and over to the Bahamas on several occasions. Finally doing a solo trip to Bermuda. Where I live in Florida, marinas were being turned in condominiums with private docks. The cost of the few remaining boat slips was skyrocketing, so I sold Maggie Mae. I haven't owned a boat for several years now. However, alongside a house near our neighborhood, sits a 18' Compac on a trailer. It hasn't moved in two years. This morning when I drove by there was a for sale sign up on the boat.................................... |
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