How old a feller are ya?

TTG said:
Cool thread! 41 here. Wife is 39. Married since 2008. Two daughters 5 and 7 years old. Summer is filled with overnighting on the Searay, cruising, swimming, fishing, and skiing (behind our ski boat not the Searay)View attachment 122226
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Oh I miss the days when my kids were young and innocent and loved being out on the boat. Now they don’t even want to come out on the boat with mom and dad. Cherish them while they’re young. They grow up way too fast.
 
66. Wife is 64, but we’ve been retired for several years now so getting younger every year. Will be celebrating our 44th in June. Our son is 37 and our daughter is a month away from 40, where did the years go? Those of you who have read our blogs see our daughter in a lot of our boat pictures, she loves the boat still and travels to where ever we are and rides along for a few days when she can get away. No grand kids, daughter just got married in August and son hasn’t found the right one yet I guess.
 
53. Wife is 49. Had our 25th anniversary not too long ago. We have 2 sons (31 and 20), a daughter (24) and can't forget the 8 year old jack russel/wiener/chiwawa cross that really thinks he is the king of our castle. No grandkids yet, but the wife has been been throwing the hints out there lately.
 
TimW said:
Wait'll you do something stupid and it take 5x longer to heal than it did 20 years ago!!:mad:
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I actually did. Last summer I jumped off the boat on our dock to tie it up in 100 degree temps. Done it a thousand times. This time I got 2nd degree burns to both feet. Couldn't walk without walking boots for 6 weeks. Wouldn't have happened even 5 years ago. Pissed me off, but I still don't "feel" old. But I hear what you're saying.
 
highslice said:
55 (but I don't feel that old)
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I kind of remember 55.:( I actually ended up in the best physical shape of my life at 60ish. I took a job to get to retirement at 62 and ended up managing the unairconditioned warehouse of Cintas document management (paper shredding) in Sanford FL. It was hands on management and you burned calories. Got a lot of double takes if I was taking my shirt off or changing shirts. This old fart had a real 6 pack set of abs. Now? Long gone especially since I moved north and sit inside for 6 months a year and do nothing but graze in the kitchen. Put on 25 lbs.... Crap.... :mad: Shoulders, hands, knee(my one OEM), back all take a while to half feeling OK in the mornings. Old injuries remind they happened...
Anyway when I was in my 20's, 50 was old. Then in my 30's and 40's, 60 was old. Well, 70's IS old. I hope I hit 80 but I am setting a record for my immediate family. This year I will live longer than my mom, dad, sister and grand parents (that I never saw). No worries. Just hope when my number comes up I'm doing something and not bedridden.
 
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bmac said:
Wow, you married your wife when she was 15....that's how old my wife was when we started dating. You got an early start on life.
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TimW said:
Jayhawk: And I thought I started young!!

I'm 56, will turn 57 on 7/4, wife is 53. Married 34 years and have 2 daughters 35 and 32, both married.



Same boat here, despite PLENTY of hints:oops:.
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Ill tell my story real quick, since we are all friends here. I never had girlfriends growing up, my mom (God rest her soul) always told me that when I met the right one, I would know it right away. So I am a senior, big football hero and it is homecoming week, I am walking down the hall with a friend, Still remember his name Colin Hockett, and I see this girl walking toward us, Colin said hi to her like he knew her, after she passed us I grabbed him and demanded her name. Well I spent the rest of the week in the freshman hall, I was in love deep with a 14 year old.
Fast forward to March, her POS dad ran off and left her and her mom, they had no family around northern Kansas, so they were going to move back to east Texas. So I loaded them and all their stuff, along with my motorcycle into the back of a U-Haul and took a week off of high school and drove them to Texas, and moved them into a house. I spent a couple days getting them settled, and then rode my motorcycle 13 hours back home.
So I graduated high school, turned down a football scholly to Hutch Juco, and moved to Texas. Job situation was tough in East Texas in the middle 80's, I worked what I could find but was miserable doing industrial roofing on the Kelly Springfield tire company plant in Tyler. My brother told me he had a job for me in SW Kansas if I wanted to move up there, I asked Denise and her mom if we could marry and move back to Kansas, we did, and that is history. We had nothing those first few years, but we were happy, and now 36 years later we have been blessed beyond my belief.
 
Here is kind of a funny pic of our family photo a couple years ago. It was between pics and we were relaxing and the photographer snapped a pic. My sons wife left him and his 2 girls just a couple of months before the pic which is why he is alone in the middle back holding his girls.

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TimW said:
Wait'll you do something stupid and it take 5x longer to heal than it did 20 years ago!!:mad:
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I’m in relatively good shape and I’m already feeling that with drinking too many beers at times. I never think it’s stupid at the time tho:oops:
 
JayhawkCurtis said:
New Tally, thanks everyone for participating, I think it has been a fun off season topic

0-30---------Still 0
30-40-------2
40-50-------7
50-60------19
60-70------12
Old Balls-----4 we added a new one, @BEH Love the old guys
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Could be a few of reasons why there are zero 0-30’s.
1. They don’t work on their boats or care to know how to do the maintenance.
2. They use other media platforms as opposed to a forum.
3. If they are on here it’s but for a few posts to get information and then split.
4. More interested in wake surf boats with 2000 watt head units and 10 subwoofers.
5. Reference #1
 
OllieC said:
Could be a few of reasons why there are zero 0-30’s.
1. They don’t work on their boats or care to know how to do the maintenance.
2. They use other media platforms as opposed to a forum.
3. If they are on here it’s but for a few posts to get information and then split.
4. More interested in wake surf boats with 2000 watt head units and 10 subwoofers.
5. Reference #1
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I'd state this slightly differently (since I owned a boat in my 20's):
1. All they care about are girls, where to meet girls, where they can take girls, how they can entertain girls
2. Twenty something girls like boats that go fast and/or are loud
3. Twenty something girls view cruisers like RV's camping....kinda creepy, something old people that have kids do :)
4. Twenty something dudes will invest in just about anything that increases their chances of meeting girls
5. See 1-4
 
You can add me to the 40-50 crowd. I bought my first cruiser, a 99 340, when I was...hmm...36. At the time our youngest of three kids was just 6 months old. That makes me 43 now I guess.

We're running three kids under 12 this year, having a blast every weekend on it May through October. I'm waiting patiently for @TNT8808 to get sick of his 480 so I can have a little more room for these growing kids :)
 
Agree with both of the last 2 posts, except if those 20 something dudes are already married to the 20 something girls and have future boaters on the way. Like we did.
We had priorities. Before kids, we had to have a boat, a house and a camper, in that order. :) Worked our asses off for them and she was expecting at 24
 
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Stee6043 said:
I'd state this slightly differently (since I owned a boat in my 20's):
1. All they care about are girls, where to meet girls, where they can take girls, how they can entertain girls
2. Twenty something girls like boats that go fast and/or are loud
3. Twenty something girls view cruisers like RV's camping....kinda creepy, something old people that have kids do :)
4. Twenty something dudes will invest in just about anything that increases their chances of meeting girls
5. See 1-4
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Okay, you win.

It would suck to be a young dude during these woke times tho. I’m fine with that seeing as I have a daughter. ;)
 
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I thought it had more to do with money/wealth. I had zero of either until my mid 30s, which is when I purchased the first boat, a 18' Maxum bowrider, for cash non the less :)
 
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