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At what age did you get into Sailing !?
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18.......when I saw my first sailboat......from bootcamp in San Diego....

of course, the taxi cab looked pretty good too.......
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8 or so. Don't really remember.
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I did small power boats on the Passaic river as a kid. I started sailing on a friends sunfish at 16.
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