colleen shiloh
Cadet
- Joined
- Feb 22, 2009
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My husband and I are looking to buy a used boat that we can use both for towing the kids on tubes and also for fishing, and just for puttering around the lake. I also really like swimming off of a boat, so it needs to be easy to get back into from the water. We have water access on a medium-sized lake in New Hampshire. The boat ramp is very steep and only 12 feet wide. The boat would have to be put in the water each weekend and taken out at the end of the weekend. We own a Honda Odyssey and a Ford Escape. The boat would only have to be towed about 1/4 mile once it's at our lake house, but as I said the ramp is very steep. We don't know if either of our vehicles is up to the challenge! We want to spend between $4,000 - $6,000 dollars. I don't know if we are being realistic or not. Any advice on what might be a good boat for us? Neither of us has ever owned a boat before.