Your first boat.

[MicHughV]

My first boat....and I use the term loosely here...was a 44 gallon steel drum, cut lengthwise in half, that had been used to hold feed for wild game.

Fitted with a broom and bedsheet I purloined from my mother's house, and a few other odds and ends of string and scrap wood, I fashioned, what I thought, was a pretty nifty craft.

I think I was 9 years old....maybe 8...can't remember anymore.
With more luck than skill I managed to drift over this body of water, without sinking, drowning or cutting myself on the drum's sharp edges.

When my mother got to hear about this tale, she was not amused, while in my mind it should have gone down in history as an epic voyage.

Shortly thereafter, I was sent off to boarding school, 100's of miles from any water, but the damage had been done, I was hooked.

So that's my story, what's yours ??