"Marty" wrote in message
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My daughter commented that her favorite part of the day was when we set
down the lunch hook and spent about an hour just eating, swimming, and
napping.
My son commented, well he's 14 so he doesn't have much to say (until he's
on his xbox live game), that his favorite part of the day was being
dragged around on the inner tube.
JimH mentioned (in another topic) that he spent a good part of his day at
a couple of different swimming spots.
I gotta admit myself, I tend to prefer the destination with the anchor set
and the relaxing that goes along with it. I tend to see the boat as a
tool to get me somewhere while my son sees the boat as a motor on water.
I'll take the swimmin' hole with it's snacking, lunching, swimming,
napping, and relaxing over the buzzing about business anyday; of course,
that's fair weather talk.
What's your take on this?



Go for it. That is half the fun of boating.....finding a nice place to
anchor and enjoy the water. Some folks spend their anchor/drift time
fishing....others swimming.

Except for cruising to various ports, we have mostly used our boat (after
some 25 years of boat ownership we sold our last boat in 2003 for medical
reasons but will be purchasing a smaller one soon) to travel to a swimming
spot (and we do have a spot we call the swimming hole in Huron, Ohio).
When doing so we would anchor in waist high water, set a stern anchor and
enjoy the day swimming and chilling. When bringing the boat back to our
dock we would usually spend the night on it if it were a Saturday night or
when on vacation.

Some folks here are serious fishermen and use their boats only for fishing.
While we have fished off the boat in spring and fall, come warm weather we
were mainly off to the beaches or other ports for weekend or multi-day
stays.

We have boated like this with our kids since they were infants (one is now
17 and the other 20) and they say they will never forget the times we had
together as a family on the boat.

And despite the fact that we are currently without a boat, we still like to
spend our time on the water. ;-)