Happy 'Back to the Future' Day! In 'Back to the Future Part II', released in 1989, Doc Brown and Marty McFly travel to October 21, 2015, to save Marty's future children, and of course, hilarity ensues. To honor this day, all of us PropTalk are looking back at what we were doing in 1989, and specifically, what our boating habits looked like all those years ago. https://youtu.be/fF2jpIhxQmQ We aren't wearing Calvin Klein, but we are reminiscing about what we were cruising on in 1989... Mary Ewenson: "I was sailing on my family’s J/44 and borrowing my dad's Albermarle 24 powerboat. Favorite foul weather gear was Henri Lloyd. Favorite food – McDonald’s Big Mac  - really!" Cory Deere: "I was waterskiing in round bay. Round Bay was my playground. I was a senior in high school. Wow!" Holly Foster: "I was pregnant with my first in Oct, 89. Learning to sail was a distant dream." Zach Ditmars: "In the summer of ‘89, I was seven years old and was probably crabbing and fishing with my dad on his ’84 Boston Whaler Montauk 17." Allison Nataro: "I was seven in 1989. My family would go camping with a group from the Horticulture Department at University of Maryland, where my grandfather was a professor, every spring and fall at Trap Pond State Park outside Laurel, DE. Grandpa had this really cool Kevlar canoe that he would strap to the roof of his Chevy Caprice wagon. We would canoe around the cypress trees and knees all day. I loved getting to paddle. I especially loved getting to see all of the frogs and turtles that were back in the swamp. It was so peaceful back there." Chris Charbonneau: "The only boat I was sailing in 1989 was a Dumas 3’ remote control sloop in the pond behind my house. I still have it, but it’s been on the hard for many years!" Duffy Perkins: "I was participating in sailing on my family’s Pearson 26 by locking myself in the vee berth with my four Cabbage Patch dolls, borrowing my brother’s Walkman to listen to a cassingle of “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” I remember these days very vividly: my mother had a thing for Bartles and Jaymes wine coolers, and we all thought spinach dip was gourmet. We would throw down the anchor, and if it was windy, my dad would set the spinnaker with a rope swing attached to the pole and I would sit in that and scream my face off if my feet got wet. I was also busy faking meningitis to get out of sailing on a puffin. I remember that very vividly, also. Faking meningitis is really, really tough." Beth Crabtree: "I was in my first year of law school, engaged to be married, and at the beginning of a 10-year hiatus from boating. I jumped back in during the summer of 1999, crewing on a friend's boat in J/World's Thursday night races." Molly Winans: "I moved to Annapolis that year, (I could fit everything I owned into my Volkswagon Fox!) so I sailed OPB—other people’s boats!" https://youtu.be/Gcl8EoexT4s