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my first boat was a $100 dollar canoe and we used kayak double style paddles to gogogogo
#1 motor boat was the whaler 13 2-stroke evinrude 40hp (39.999 mph)
first fast boat is a thing called a chris craft Caper 16 ft 2-stroke 90hp evinrude! 49.999 mph!
(i'll never sell it!)
2 years ago i jumped up a few sizes for the ZT28 Chekkie 496HO (i am still too newbie to pu**** past 70)

first, 79 20 ft Sea Ray open bow with a 260 Merc, was fun, ran 56!
second 88 Chris Craft 245 Limited
third 86 Baja 320 Force RIP in ladfill..
Current 85 Cig Mistress

Grew up and still live in Cleveland, Ohio, been gong to the Erie islands since I was a kid, when I was young standing at the rail at The Casino, I loved all the boats with HP... been a gearhead since I was born, said one day I will have a offshore boat in "front row" still go there every weekend...

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Originally Posted by GTOKILLER (Post 3860685)

First boat I was 18 (2000) Bought a Baja 280 sport twin 330 bbc's, pd 21k for it drove from MI to Iowa to get it. Probably some of the best times of my life were made on that boat. Had it for about 7 years bought A LOT of fuel for that ole girl.

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/i...101_0540_3.jpg

I was forced to part with it after a bad car wreck ( hence my user name ) it was a 06 GTO hit a house close to 100 mph without a seatbelt & airbags failed to deploy.

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/i..._duke/Car5.jpg

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/i..._duke/Car6.jpg

5 years later physically & financially recovered I recently drove from MI to Tx to pick up my current 31 Ocean Express Cat which is in process of being upgraded. There is a nice thread in the restore sec. if you have not seen it.

http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/r...tons-pics.html

Glad to be back on the water!!

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/i...33739363_n.jpg

:eekdrop::eekdrop::eekdrop::eekdrop::eekdrop::eekd rop::eekdrop::eekdrop::eekdrop::eekdrop:

FIRST bOAT WAS A 16FT SHAKESPEAR WITH A 3.8 JAGUAR MOTOR WITH THE 4 SPEED MANUAL AND V BOX . IT EVEN HAD THE WOODEN DASH FOR THE GAUGES ,I WAS 18 PLEASE LET ME GO BACK ITWAS SOOOO MUCH FUN

1ST BOAT 8' PUNT W/3HP JOHNSON AT 6YO
BUILT A 8' SKIPJACK W/10 HP MERC FROM PLANS AT 12 AND STRAPPED A 20 HP ON IT AND NEVER LOOKED BACK ......UNTIL THE TRANSOM RIPPED OFF :poopoo:

First boat still is 1999 Baja 272

My first boat was a 1972 Wellcraft V-20 Steplift which is still in the family and is in excellent shape. It is powered by a 1987 175 Merc outboard.

My present boat is a 1988 Fountain 8.8m Spitfire.

My dad has always had a boat as long as i can remember.
When i was 19 i bought a 1977 20 cig and had it for about 8 yrs. It was the one thing i should have never gotten rid of.

19 1977 cig
28 apache
38 Ocean yacht
now 30 cig mystique.

Work hard and go after what you want.

Dave

Would love to find my old 20 cig.

First boat I owned was a 1978 17ft Hydrostream Vector with a 235 Johnson.