I built the first boat I ever owned at 13 years of age. I had lots of help, but we built a flat bottom wooden jon boat that I used extensively on a watershed lake near my boyhood home in Alabama. I broke the transom completely out of it when I was 16 showing off for some buddies. Running hard with a 10 HP Evinrude motor, lost control and ran it up on the bank. I laughed along with my buds like it was no big deal, but down deep my feelings were bad hurt about wrecking that ole tub.