when were you hooked?

[powerskipper]

Was having my first lesson on parking/mooring/ bumping/bashing the boat and turn to my instructor and said " I want to teach this"
After he picked his jaw up from the floor, he smiled politely and asked me to steer in a strait line,
That was the moment I got hooked!

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[LeytonC]

I got hooked during a boat trip round Clovelly harbour when i was about 8.
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[Talbot]

Personally I blame Arthur Ransome. It predisposed me to messing about on water so that when I was actually afloat (aged abt 8-10) I loved it. Spent 14 years afloat in a war canoe and still spent time onboard yachts!

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[kindredspirit]

I got hooked when out on a fishing trip and some idiot couldn't cast properly................................and got me instead.

Does this count....................?






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[powerskipper]

Yes, Hope it did not hurt !

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[Joe_Cole]

Rowing a beautiful 100 year old boat in the Loch at Ullapool when I was about 10. There were Dolphin all around which were coming up, under the boat, and gently bumping the keel. Fishing was so easy that it felt as if the fish were jumping into the boat without bothering to get hooked first!

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[plombier]

The boating lake at Goodrington in 1953 - been downtide ever since.

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[snowleopard]

1958

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[kindredspirit]

No, but that same idiot managed eventually to pull in.......I swear......... the same octopus three times........... and without catching a fish all day.......... while we were filling a black poly sack full of Ling and Cod. Grrrrrr!






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[Vara]

Re: 1954

I'll raise you 4 and Findhorn Bay.
Bloody cold but I remember it fondly.

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[benjenbav]

Goodness, this brings back memories of trawling with feathers for mackerel off Ardmair (just north of Ullapool), sailing round Isle Martin in a Mirror dinghy, standing on the beach throwing stones in the water for hours, catching pollack off the harbour wall, seals....

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[LadyInBed]

Dingy racing at Shaldon across from Teignmouth, Devon in the mid 60’s.
Flared hipster jeans (I had hips then), Flower power, bare feet, girls in mini skirts . . . .

“Trailer for sale or rent, room to let fifty cents”

I think I might just go and have a nostalgic cry!


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[EdEssery]

Me too...

Arthur Ransome and Heron 6663 (called Amazon of course) were entirely to blame...

Never one regret except the 8-10 years in my late twenties/early thirties when I never went near a boat - too busy "establishing" a career -

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[kindredspirit]

I'm wearing flared cords at the moment...................and don't quote Don Miller...............here!

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[wishbone]

Early fifties, making rafts on the canals East London both my grandads lived next to them 1 in Bow 1 in Limehouse, the boating lake at Victoria park, Uncle Len's house next to the Crouch Raileigh Essex, was I a good rower all 4 stone of me, and thin as a bean pole, didn't take up sailing until I was 45........family, money, mortgage, self employed, you name it couldn't afford it...!!!!!!! It's in the blood, dad and his brothers were dockers!!

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[alahol2]

A week away with the school at the sailing centre on Chasewater, about as far from the sea as you can get. Used to go back at weekends and nag them into giving us jobs in exchange for a sail. Then to help with the teaching (couldn't do that nowadays with H&S etc.).

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[FullCircle]

On Dad's 13ft Speedboat called Razzle (with Uncle Jerries boat called Dazzle) at Swalecliffe in 1960. They were identical, and I was 3. Then they both bought identical Yarecraft with lovely yellow cushions and teak varnished decks, called Pixie & Dixie. Learned to ski just after my 8th b'day.
Then Dad came home from London Boat Show in 1968 with a Minisail - learned to sail in that. Very fast for its day, and I stood on the dagger board having capsized it, and it didnt budge!! I weighed all of 4 stone then.
The only thing to nearly put me off was when Dad bought Jack Holts very trick Mirror. Not a patch on the Minisail, so it got sold again. At one point we had a double stacked trailer for every weekend using 2 boats.
Oh yes this runs deep and long.
Thanks Dad, you were great.
Jim

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[tome]

Salcombe '62, camping with me mum and sisters.

Sat in the motor launches on the quay all day long as an 8 yr old, happy just to pull in the painters when given the nod. Highlight was being shown around a Buchanan 40 foot sloop and wondering if one day...

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[Twister_Ken]

On a sixpenny sicker off Eastbourne beach for a trip to the Beachy Head light and back. Stood in the bow ducking the spray, while every body else huddled under canvas 'blankets'. Of course, I was too young to appreciate what might have been going on under the blankets.

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[rich]

IT was the only way to get off the island,

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