How much water do you need? How much space does it take to satisfy your wanderlust? Your need for seeing and exploring something different?
Do you need an Ocean or one of the Great Lakes to truly stretch out? Or does a mere river, dammed after less than 20 miles work for you?
I have so little experience on boats, I?m not sure what my primary mission will be. In my imagination, cruising has the most appeal. Maybe overnighting somewhere over the horizon. But from what I have read on these boards, most boaters average well less than an hour cruising on each outing.
Seems like most folks stick relatively close to home base.
Fishing might be fun. Never done it from a boat. Tubing or other water sports I?m less sure about.
But I do wonder whether a small river or lake would quickly become redundant.
It makes me think of my first car. That first week or two I?d jump in the Mustang just to go around the block. But that became anti-climatic pretty quick. Once my driving skills improved, I needed to progressively go farther.
My nearest water is only a 12 mile long stretch of the Rock River in Illinois. I suspect I?d tire of that rather quickly. I?d have to travel about 45 miles to a larger body of water, the Chain O? Lakes area.
Do you need an Ocean or one of the Great Lakes to truly stretch out? Or does a mere river, dammed after less than 20 miles work for you?
I have so little experience on boats, I?m not sure what my primary mission will be. In my imagination, cruising has the most appeal. Maybe overnighting somewhere over the horizon. But from what I have read on these boards, most boaters average well less than an hour cruising on each outing.
Seems like most folks stick relatively close to home base.
Fishing might be fun. Never done it from a boat. Tubing or other water sports I?m less sure about.
But I do wonder whether a small river or lake would quickly become redundant.
It makes me think of my first car. That first week or two I?d jump in the Mustang just to go around the block. But that became anti-climatic pretty quick. Once my driving skills improved, I needed to progressively go farther.
My nearest water is only a 12 mile long stretch of the Rock River in Illinois. I suspect I?d tire of that rather quickly. I?d have to travel about 45 miles to a larger body of water, the Chain O? Lakes area.
