Also, when I was a lad in Florida, we used to hang around the marina on Clearwater Beach. Sometimes we would help clean a boat and get a boat ride or two. All these experiences and more helped shape my love of boats and the sea. Boating and watersports are an excellent way to bond with your children and their friends. Afternoons during the summer spent waterskiing, wakeboarding, sailing or fishing will lead to dinner table discussions about the days' activity.
Kids are never too young to take out boating.
I remember when I hand an 18' Cobia with twin 125 hp Mercury outboards in Florida. My friends would bring their babies along. We would put life jackets on them and when they got sleepy, the kids rode up forward under the deck on a bed of pillows. The babies and my two dachshunds would sleep for hours while we cruised or skied. As they grew up they learned how to seer the boat and eventually to waterski and fish.