Weekly Q&A 8-28 thru 9-3

[LadyFish]

Re: Weekly Q&A 8-28 thru 9-3

1. When you first got internet, what was the first website you visited?
Windows Help & Support

2. What was your first boat?
A Birch Canoe

3. How old were you, when you first drove a boat solo?
13 or 14, it was my grandfather's little aluminum boat with a 15 HP Johnson

4. Do you have any trophies, & if so, what for?
Yes, first place in a wild game cookoff

5. What is your hometown famous for?
Lock 17 on the Erie Canal, and until very recent years, this great lock was the highest lift lock in the world. It's also where the Hudson River and Mohawk River meet. And, for its many waterfalls, Salada Tea and Schwinn Bicycles.

 

[Mr.Ladyfish]

Re: Weekly Q&A 8-28 thru 9-3

1. When you first got internet, what was the first website you visited? AutoDesk
2. What was your first boat? 1966 Texas Maid
3. How old were you, when you first drove a boat solo? 41
4. Do you have any trophies, & if so, what for? Just a Trophy wife
5. What is your hometown famous for? General Nicholas Herkimer of Revolutionary War fame.

A correction to LF: Albany is where the Hudson & Mohawk meet:$

 

[LadyFish]

Re: Weekly Q&A 8-28 thru 9-3

I stand corrected then. I forgot one Mr. LF

A cheese exchange was established and in the years 1853 - 1875, Little falls was cheese market to the Nation.

Ah ha, and all this time you thought Herkimer was famous for it's cheese.

 

[bjcsc]

Re: Weekly Q&A 8-28 thru 9-3

1. When you first got internet, what was the first website you visited?
ISP homepage (AOL)
2. What was your first boat?
Hobie 16 (still have it)
3. How old were you, when you first drove a boat solo?
14 if sailing counts as "driving", ~18 for power
4. Do you have any trophies, & if so, what for?
Yes, racing Hobies & Jboats.
5. What is your hometown famous for?
History, architecture, plantations, a dance, and being the place where the Civil War started.

 

[QC]

Re: Weekly Q&A 8-28 thru 9-3

1. When you first got internet, what was the first website you visited?
I had a bootleg connection through Rio Hondo College as early as 1990 I think, got it from my mom. You could kinda call that a webpage . . .
2. What was your first boat?
1984 17' Sunray Cobra, 3.0 Stringer, bought it new with Mrs QC before we were married, BIL still has it and the head has never been off
3. How old were you, when you first drove a boat solo?
Probably 14 or so, although I think I just steered
4. Do you have any trophies, & if so, what for?
I only have one and it was for a two-man ski race carrying a rescue toboggan, we got 2nd
5. What is your hometown famous for?
Fullerton, CA is famous for hmmmm . . . home of Jackson Brown, Gary Carter, Tommy Lasorda, Original home of Fender Guitars

 

[PW2]

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The first internet connection I had was in Northern Ontario, and was email only. Got it to correspond with daughter in college in Alaska, and the $1.00 / minute phone rate at the time was out of the question.

My first boat was a home built 13 1/2 ft wood runabout built more or less from plans culled from some magazine. Made slightly wider and lower than plans called for, and it worked great (though I could never get the fiberglass to stick to the wood properly, and the thing leaked always)

Our first family boat was a 12' rowboat

I solo'd at age 6 with that 12 ft rowboat with a 1949 evinrude 2 1/2 hp. That motor still works fine, and my younger brother has it.

No trophies

Useless Bay on Whidbey Island Wa. Rumor has it that it was called that by Cap'n Vancouver, who got stuck on the miles of tideflats there for months. Not sure if that is true or not, but it makes sense (Next bay to the south is Cultass Bay, and immediately north is Mutiny Bay---he must have had a fine time there!)

 

[JB]

Re: Weekly Q&A 8-28 thru 9-3

1. First internet site? AOL.

2. First boat? Homemade wooden Jon.

3. Think I was about 7 when I first operated a boat solo.

4. Trophies? A lot that I don't have any more. 1944 National Penmanship Contest first place. 1949 Moore County (NC) smallbore rifle champion. Numerous karting trophies including Regional Championships.

5. My hometown, Southern Pines, NC, and neighboring Pinehurst, where I was born, are famous for golf courses and tournaments as well as being a very popular retirement town for senior military officers.

 

[kenimpzoom]

Re: Weekly Q&A 8-28 thru 9-3

1. When you first got internet, what was the first website you visited?
2. What was your first boat?
3. How old were you, when you first drove a boat solo?
4. Do you have any trophies, & if so, what for?
5. What is your hometown famous for?

1. Cant remember
2. Same boat as in signature
3. Drove PWC many times solo when young. Boat was about 28.
4. Science fair, drag racing 2nd place
5. Exxon refinery

Ken