I started sailing on a Sunfish when I was 8, and have sailed ever since (today being my 48th birthday) meshed into a 32 years of being a commercial pilot I worked at 2 different sailboat dealerships (when laid off from flying as happens in the airline industry) and built Hobies and sold Catalina's, S-2, Pearson, Erickson, O'Day, Cal, Morgan, Columbia... just to name a few. My current boat is an AMF Force 5 which is still my nautical unicycle and gives a lot more workout to me than the other way `round.