My first boat was way back when I was 11 yr old. A 12' Sears Gamefisher and a 9.5 Johnson to tool me around at 20mph to wherever I wanted to go in heaven. At that age, I learned to work for $$. Spending all summer on the water you learned how to make $2 to fill that 6 gal gas can. I used that boat til I was 17 and gave it to my younger brother, and he used it for another 5 years. That little motor and boat took SOOOO much abuse between running it always as fast as it would go, sinking it several times, seeing how high we could get it over a big wake,etc... Well, that fall when we took it out for the season we saw the crack in the fiberglass from one end to the other. Can't imagine how that happened???? Brought it back to Sears for a full refund and Mom and Dad went and got me a 12' MFG. GREAT times! At 21, I paid for my first one. A 1971 Glastron 16' IO.
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