When did you get your first boat? I feel like the youngest person on my lake. I have a bass boat and a jet-ski. Some may think I'm spoiled I was just blessed.

1978 - 22 years old and fresh out of a job with Uncle Sam.

Got my first one last year. Small two-seat car-topper with a trolling motor. It's small but it's mine and I've certainly caught enough fish from it. I take it out 3-4 times a week.

55 years old when I got my first boat.

my first boat was a 12' jon boat I got when I was 24.  I got my first bass boat when I was 28, once I was financially secure enough to afford it.

I got a little bass raider with a small trolling motor when I was 13 paid for it myself and just recently upgraded to a tracker 1542 with a 15 hp mercury

I was 24 or 25. 45 now and on boat #3

I got my first watercraft when I was 18, it was a Yamaha 1200 Waverunner (didn't do any fishing out of that). When I started fishing about 8 years ago, my first floater was a Sevlor 360 with a 32lb MinnKota. After that was a Coleman Scanoe with a 55lb MinnKota. My first "boat" was a 1976 15' Glastron Trihull that I converted into an open deck bass boat with 3 electric MinnKotas, one 55lb in the front, 2 in the back.

 

I didn't get my first real bass boat until I was 28, a 96 Tracker PT17.

My first big outboard powered was a 1965, 65hp Merc on a 14ft GlassMaster runabout I bought new in 65 when I was still in high school. My very first was a 17' Grumman canoe, square back I used a 3hp Johnson on. That one I bought used in 1962. Before that, it was a small wood boat I built from some scrap wood in the garage and used in a small pond close to the house.

I also had a TM for the Canoe. It looked like a regular electric sitting vertical on a bent steel tube with a cable drive shaft inside.

I will hopefully be getting mine this week or next. I'm looking at a 1998 bass tracker v 17 with a 75hp mercury force on the back.  it has a minnkota trolling motor and 2 fish/depth finders plus lots of storage and 2 live wells. I will be 16 in august but I have my boaters safety and have been shore fishing the local lakes since I was 10 so its about time I get a boat. I'm buying it myself with money I have made through my 2 jobs I currently have this summer. I'm super excited and I can't wait to get off the shore and catch some big fat bass!

I will hopefully be getting mine this week or next. I'm looking at a 1998 bass tracker v 17 with a 75hp mercury force on the back.  it has a minnkota trolling motor and 2 fish/depth finders plus lots of storage and 2 live wells. I will be 16 in august but I have my boaters safety and have been shore fishing the local lakes since I was 10 so its about time I get a boat. I'm buying it myself with money I have made through my 2 jobs I currently have this summer. I'm super excited and I can't wait to get off the shore and catch some big fat bass!

Congrats on saving enough for a boat, but be careful with that motor....

 

Bought my first boat at 11. It was a little 10' Bass Hound. Just had a tm on it for a while until I bought a little v-hull with almost new trailer and an older 8hp Johnson. Took off the goodies for mine and sold the boat. Overall, it work out pretty good. A little over 2 years ago upgraded to my first Ranger. An 86 320V with an junker 75 Merc. I upgraded for a whopping $150. Later upgraded the motor, tm, and added a jackplate and Ranger on-board charger, Lowrance HDS Gen2 Touch, Older Lowrance GPS up front. In a few days I'll be stripping it down because I'm upgrading to a 97 Ranger Sport R70 with an Evinrude 130 and after I sell mine, I might even be making money on the upgrade.haha

Way before I bought my first boat I had access to waters ( rich people 's private estates) where boats were kept on the small lakes year round.  This is where I learned how to row, act in a boat and fish from a boat.  Early 30's I got a small pond boat and this let me fish many more smaller public waters where boats weren't available to borrow.  In my early 40's I got a MUCH better small pond boat - a Water Buster Trophy.  That company, as far a I know went out of business, but at the time, they were the top of the line pond boat.  In my early 50's I upgraded to an 18' Lowe and that's what I have now.  It is one of those things where I would like to have a better/bigger boat, but my current boat is paid for so I don't know when or if I'll get another one.

 

I know that if I go any bigger, storage will become an issue.  Right now I can pull my boat and truck into my fishing shed - plug it in and lock the door.  If I go to a bigger boat I don't have the room in my current fishing shed to do that.

Started running my first boat solo around 6 or 7. Used it to catch conch and lobster during the summers I spent in the Bahamas. Everything built up from there. Own four boats now, thinking about buying a small skiff to get back into some really skinny water flats fishing as well as upgrading to a new offshore boat. I've never bought a new totally custom rig before. I'm finally in a financial position where I can think about doing it. The options for new boats now are pretty darn mind blowing. My daughters have been driving my offshore boat (with help) since they were about four.

You're well on your way to sliding down a slippery, yet very fun slope. Hope it works out well for you. Stay safe when you get it. You're going to want to get out and see what she can do.

I got my first "real" boat about ten years ago.  a 17.5 foot johnboat with a 25 horse Evinrude.  After the initial "honeymoon period", I find I use it less and less-especially after I purchased a bass raider from a friend a couple years back.  Have been thinking of buying a kayak and if I like it/use it a lot, I'll probably be serving the large boat divorce papers.

Got my first Tracker 17' with a merc 50 at 32...  10 yrs later on my 3rd boat....

Purchased my first boat this year at 28. 1648 tracker with a 9.9 it putts me up the river nice. I have so far been enjoying the learning experience. The hardest part for me has been coming back to the dock at the right speed/angle but I'm getting better every time!

I got my first in April, 1988. I was 33 years old. It was my first and the only boat I've ever owned. I still have it and use it.

I bought a used 2 man boat for $50 when I was 13 with lawn mowing money. I fished out of it almost every day on a semi private lake and most of the people who came out to the lake all the time called me "Little Harold" after Harold Ensley. Someone stole the boat off the dock when I was 15 and all the great people out there pooled their money together and bought me a brand new one to replace the old one, man I miss that place 

I bought my first boat about 20 years ago, an 8' bass hunter pontoon style that i still use today when fishing solo.

1962 Hand built Pirogue

I bought my boat when I was 26 and I am 40 now.  It is still with me today. Original motor and trolling motor. Replaced the carpet once and I replaced it's original seats 2 days ago. i am considering sprucing it up with a new higher power trolling motor and maybe a motor upgrade. Getting a bigger and faster boat right now is really $$. 

My brither-in-law give me my canoe three years ago sith the instructions of make it mine. But if I ever got rid of it I had to offer it back to him first. Dont think that will ever happen. If I destroy it while using it well its just gone. So I was 23 one of best gifts I ever got!!!!

1978 - 22 years old and fresh out of a job with Uncle Sam.

1976 the same - first bass boat - Sears Ted Willams - Glass

1st. boat - 1966 - pre war wooden 12' row boat - 71/2hp air cooled Ted willams - Sears/Robart - KING OF THE DELTA! Or so I thought at 12 yrs. old.

1973 when I was 12 y/o 

The most exciting part of bass fishing: trailer king the boat.