I can recall my first new boat, I was 12 years old, my dad built me a 6' boat because I was too small to operate the 11' boat and they thought that was a dangerous problem with me. The 6 foot boat had a 6 hp elgin and if you sat back in the boat it was fine. But if you leaned forward on the bow it would go faster than any boat we had. We figured it was about 40 MPH. Dad was working those days and on sunday my mother said that Dad was to take the outboard with him home. That boat was not so much fun then. Last I seen of that boat was our next door neighbor in Reading Mass going down the hill of snow using it like a toboggan.
