I was talking to a guy at the docks last week......he was telling me it takes him roughly 60min of drive time to get to the lake! DAMN! So I thought I would ask what is your average time? We trailer our boat for the past two years....by the time I get her out of the garage, cover off, cooler filled and kids in the truck I can be on the lake in 35mins. Well that is IF my wife isn't deciding on another damn bathing suit. My actual drive time is only 15mins though.
Excluding the wife factor...I can have the boat loaded and be at the lake in 15mins. The drive time is actually about 8mins. This is assuming i don't need fuel.
im a 300 foot walk down to my lake. it takes me about 5 mins to pack a cooler and hit the water. ;)
I am lucky to keep my boat in the lake all the time. Right now I am at work, my boat is ~100 feet from me. If I keep it at my family's house on the lake, it's about 6 min from work, 15 from home.
But now with a 1-year-old, even if we're already at the lake, it's at least 15-20 minutes from the decision to go boating to actually leaving the dock!
20 minute drive from my house to the lake house where the boat is. Push of a button and it is in the water 3 minutes later.
My boat sits in water (6 month/year) 20min from my home, 10min from my work. I just come with fuel cans, and we are 5min from the speed zone :)
From the time I pull into my driveway to being in the water is 15 minutes. Boat launch is 1 mile away. I'm spoiled but not as much as some on here!
I have everyone topped. I drive roughly 2 hours 15 minutes from my house to my cottage every weekend. I live in Syracuse ny and have a cottage on devil lake in ontario Canada. Wouldn't trade it for anything. Beautiful pristine lake with very little boat traffic. Even on the windiest of days I can always find flat water for skiing.
Wow, after reading all the first posts a was really starting to feel sorry for myself! I'm about an hour drive from either of the lakes we frequent. Just goes to show, everyone has a little something to be thankful for!
From my house to the first lake we frequent is an hour, the next lake just south of there is another 20mins, so anywhere from an hour to an hour twenty each way. This does not include packing the boat and dealing with the wife.