How far do you travel to get to "your" water on the weekends??

[wotan2525]

"getting ready" involves:

• take off boat cover if necessary (me)
• unhook float chargers from batteries (me)
• Take 4 boards out of garage and put in boat (me)
• Pack cooler with snacks/beverages (wife)
• Pack bag with towels and dry snacks (wife)
• Grab parking pass off the fridge (wife)
• Hitch up the truck (me)
• remove wheel chocks (wife)

I'm pretty lucky. GF usually gets home before me and has the cover off, carpet vacuumed, charger unhooked, cooler iced up and everything else ready. I leave the truck hooked up about 90% of the time so it's usually just throw a suit on and go....

[trayson]

I'm pretty lucky. GF usually gets home before me and has the cover off, carpet vacuumed, charger unhooked, cooler iced up and everything else ready. I leave the truck hooked up about 90% of the time so it's usually just throw a suit on and go....

Not bad. We both get off work at 4pm and it's about 15 minutes from work to home. If I really wanted, I could prep some of that stuff and shorten our lead time. It hasn't been a huge deal thus far as our 3rd is typically not ready as soon as we could be.

"Our" truck is really *her* truck. So, to have it hitched up ahead of time means that she isn't driving her vehicle. I have a Jeep, BMW, Audi and Motorcycle for myself, so giving her the Audi to drive is no biggie; but she likes to driver her own truck, so I indulge her most the time. Hey, I have to be nice to the tow rig owner, right???

[nd4spd]

700 meters from driveway to boat launch. About a 2 minute drive.

[trayson]

I hate every one of you that is closer than my 15 minute drive.

[trayson]

I think my friend Vince has one of the best though... He lives in a house boat (rented) on the Columbia River. He walks about 15 feet out his sliding glass door and his boat is tied to the deck of his houseboat. (although he does have the "downside" of having to idle at 5mph for 10 minutes until he's out of the no wake zone).

[Blackntan90]

I am 1 hour drive time to the Potomac river with good traffic on the interstate, and 2 1/2 hours to the closest lake in the next state(PA). My dream is to live on a lake, but the one closest to us does not allow any homes within about a mile of the shore. Plus with the kid in college, and my job near D.C. it will have to wait....one day....

[gogger]

It takes about 20 minutes for me to get to the closest lake. Depends who is going out. During the week I kind of like going to Griggs which is about 35 minutes away. But it is pretty much just boarders and surfers. The water is always nice and flat. This year most of my regular crew quit going boarding with me. Really just one, he started dating my daughter and I guess she doesn't like him going on the boat with me. Apparently she is jealous of the boat, since I no longer have much interest in horses.

A dusty hot horse arena or having fun on the water. I will take the water every time.

And since he doesn't go, his friends don't go either. So I have some new guys that go out now. One is an awesome barefooter and pretty good on the airchair. I bought an airchair and few weeks ago and have been trying to learn it. But it isn't easy. So Griggs is a little closer to the new guys. I get off work at 2:30 pm and can be home and on the water by 3:30 or 4 at the latest. Just depends if the boat needs fuel.

On the weekends it is usually the wife and I and maybe some family or friends that aren't into boating or boarding very much. We usually go to Deer Creek and take a ride around the lake and then sit in the cove the rest of the day. It is busy and usually choppy from the traffic so just sitting and relaxing is what we do.

Planning on going out after work tomorrow. Supposed to be 95 degrees tomorrow and by Friday a high of 66. Water temps will be cooling off soon. Not looking forward to putting the boat away. Hoping to get out into October.

[Jetlink]

Hoping to get out into October.

That's the beauty of having a closed bow or a bow cover for the open bows. Get out earlier in the season and stay out later. I didn't pull my boat out of the lift or winterize until a week or two before Halloween. Not bad for Yankee country as I am sure the Georgia boys will point out that they only take a month or two off from boating.