Name:   JimD - Subject:   first boat memory and favorite boat you have owned Date:   3/16/2016 3:48:16 PM

New to this forum. Thank you for this opportuniy. I have been coming to LM since I was 5 (1960) when my grandparents built a cottage which has now been entrusted to my care. My first boat memory is my uncle's 1963 Century Resorter mahonagy inboard. My siblings and I (9 in all) were thrilled when he'd run us around in that, for lack of a better term, hot rod of a boat. The boat is long gone and my uncle died in 2013. I have always wanted my kids to experience that thrill. Last year I found a nearly identical '63 Century in Michigan. It's now at LM. It is, quite simply, a thing of beauty. And the sound is incredible. It is my first boat, and thus by default, my favorite. But, at least for me, it would be hard to imagine anything better.