Your post is wide open for some serious abuse, Mary
(but I'll let someone else step up to the plate for that)

Anyway, You're right. My dad built a Sailfish in our basement over the 1963-64 winter, and that's what I learned to sail on the following summer. (Age 4)

Sailfish, Flying Junior - Age 4
Hobie 16 (#6707) - Age 12
Sunfish (first boat I owned myself) - Age 16
Hobie 16 (#33556) - Age 18 (eventually inherited it)
Hobie 16 (#74722) - Age 23 (1st Hobie I owned myself new)
Hobie 16 (#937 - nationals boat) - Age 29 (pig of a boat - way heavy)
Hobie 17 (#4026) - Age 31
Hobie 16 (#102668) - Age 38 (still own it)
Hobie Tiger (#1111) - Age 44
Hobie 14 (hull #5010) - Age 44 (restoration project)