At what age do get interested in boating?

[JCAustralia]

Hi guys

My little boy is 7 months old and I am keen to get him into RC boating.....

Would like to make my hobby a family affair and get everybody involved..... The missus won't have any choice but to follow us to the lake if we decide to.....

What age do you think they can get interested in RC boating? Any ideas or stories to share?

The little fellas I meet at the pond are always in awe and admiration at my boats, but they are at least 5-6 years old..... Some are in their 60's also.....

Cheers

JC

[vvviivvv]

i was 8 turning 9 when i got my first one... at age 11 i was given a atlantic challanger to build...

http://www.mariosrcmodels.com/graupner_azimut_2.htm

what was my dad thinking...

[SJFE]

atlantic challanger

I love to have one of those.

[vvviivvv]

Have 2 of them now ^_^

one I'm restoring

[ls1fst98]

i know i was in my early teens but that was because we sponsored 2 full size offshore powerboats. team ocean spray crave the wave, a D class mono with twin 1050hp mercruisers. The other was a single B class mono, team flashpoint.

this got me wanting to build a scale version of the oceanspray boat for the longest time.
to me at that age their was nothing more beautiful than the le gran argentina . this got me hooked in anything to do with speed and water.

[tth]

My oldest daughter is 2 and she loves to play when I work on my hulls. I have a mini rio that she calls hers so I let her play with it. I am yet to let her control it in the water tho.

[Flying Scotsman]

I started building my scratch pathetic sail boats and Jetex propelled boats at the age of 7, but at that time I thought they were cool. I was very jealous of the old boys that had valve/tube RC noisy boats

Douggie

[Jeepers]

my boy is 2 years old and I let him take the helm of his lipo powered Zig Zag race several times he is WOT all the time and right full rudder and screaming "LOOK AT MY BOAT DADDY" with a BIG smile on his face!

[sailr]

I built my first powered model boat when I was about 14. That was in 1957!

[Steven Vaccaro]

All my kids have been around them since born. Only my middle boy takes real interest in building and running them. My oldest will more than gladly run one if he's handed a control, but has no interest in anything else.

[screwball]

im 15 and i love them and have had the little toy ones since i was little i think the first time i got a toy one that i used to use on the lagoon that we lived on when i was 4 but i was always interested in boats since i have grown up around fishing.