13 for me
I was a pest at 13 always asking an adult to go out fishing on a sheltered cape cod bay when I got a lesson on rowing the 14 aluminum one day, a lesson on anchoring the next, a lesson on starting the 10 hp and driving the next day, then the next day I asked to be taken out I got "Ok, I can't go, but you be home for dinner".
I went out almost a mile, (stll in the bay) anchored, caught a few flounder, coming back had the motor conk out about 400 yds out and rowed myself back.
One of the greatest days of my life.
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