I remember in my early 20s I stayed at the Marina Marriott in Ft. Lauderdale for business. Went to the Everglades marina on break and had drool coming out of my mouth looking at all the performance boats. Knew back then I needed one.
Saw this Video and had to laugh at how much has changed and hasn’t changed. I miss my Mullet !!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAPK-fzqgWc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAPK-fzqgWc

For me it started when I had my wife, daughter, and 1 year old in a 19' tunnel hull jetboat. Needless to say the wife was less than happy being in a boat like that with a 1 year old. Being the gear head it am there was no way I was going to end up in a toon or cruiser. That's when I sold it and bought a 27' Fountain.

Grew up boating and My parents bought there first High performance boat when I was 5 or 6. It was a 28 Checkmate! Been Hooked ever since!

Probably when I was little, a guy at the boat club here has one of those boats. Im not sure if he still does but I loved to watch him take off.

Always been around boats, was waterskiing as a little kid standing on my dads feet. Offshore.... the first time I saw them racing in the ocean on wide world of sports as a kid.. Got the dirt bug back then too seeing the Baja 1000 on tv. Im playing with boats now that I have the Baja 1000 trophy on the mantel. My current boat wont get me a water trophy, but it will give me the skills to get one in something else someday.

Grew up in south Louisiana.. We had a camp that was about a 30 min boat ride back then.
I was probably around 8 or 9 playing around down the bayou and found a lil homemade 8ft boat half sunk.. Side had huge crack from top to bottom.

My dad took some cloth and resin, we fixed the crack and put a battery and trolling motor on it and away I went trying to race lillies down stream!!

My first outboard!, lol

Been on boats since I was born. Our first sport boat I was about 10 and it was a 23 wellcraft nova with a 350 mag and thru hulls. Great boat. Just being on the water in the Chesapeake bay you saw lots of perfamce boats and I always have had a hp and speed bug. Gets worse with age. Lol

For me it was in the mid to late 80's when I was 7 or so. My grandparents had a place in Point Pleasant and my mother, brother and I lived there in the summers while dad stayed home and worked. I don't remember what year it was but I woke up to a louder than normal rumble, (we always saw and heard the go fast boats in barnegat bay going under the bridge) and it was one of the popeyes boats, I sat on the beach watching the boats race and test with my mom holding her hands over my ears. We never had boats growing up, but when I bought my first one, my mom said she always knew I'd have a fast boat from that day.

Grew up on my dads bassboats. Driving 55 by age 10. Borrowing the boat and running 65 while a senior in HS. Bought my first boat at 23......a 26ft cabin cruiser. Eventually wanted a go-fast for the range, not the speed. Now I wheel-2-wheel race cars and have a small CC for the water.

I always wanted a jet boat. Then, as a teen, I saw my first offshore boat on a trailer at the lake. 30'+ V with twins. I asked to see the inside. I saw the cabin and said "you can camp on this too?" I was SOLD!
Now I have a 38', 100mph 10000# mo/ho on water.