Started off playing and initially a trip to the lake would end when all our boats broke. We'd go home fix everything and go back the following week until everything broke again.
Then the time came and boats started coming back to the jetty in one piece, and we even started taking them home in running condition!
Trips to the lake started to get a bit ho hum, running boats round and round and round. Was great for a while, then we needed something else to get it interesting.
Now we race on Club days, and I just love racing and competition. I Really enjoying racing over a series of events. It's cool to be able to track your progress from year to year and set litle goals like being able to move up the ladder a few spots. For me that's important.
I also really enjoying traveling to out of town events, it's great to meet and build friendships with new people. The camaderie that has been building over the last few years has been fantastic, and more often than not, you go to an event just to catch up with people you haven't seen for ages and give the wee man some stick!
I really enjoy building as well, right now I'm in the middle of my first ever wooden boat build and it's a fantastic experience, can't wait to see the finished product. But with all my boats I've enjoyed tinkering away with various mods and repairs. It's very satisfying to have built something or modified or rebuilt it, and to have it run well.
There's so many facets to this sport/hobby (if you want to see the debate about that head on over to jims)that you can never know it all as there's always something else coming out, or even another facet like prop design/modification/ engine mods, boat design etc. etc. etc. It's hard to get bored with it.
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