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says...

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?

I just have a little dinky 15 ft open bow, but there are several things
that make for fun,,

1. Navigation toys. I have a Raytheon 1200 radar I built from junk
parts. It is fun to use the radar at night. I also run OziExplorer
on my laptop with a Delorme GPS hooked to it. I download satellite
images of the places where I boat, calibrate the images, and use them
to navigate. I like toys.

2. WaterSkiing. I am a rank novice skier. I can hardly stay up on
skies, but I like jumping the wake, I like the rumble of skiing
in the propeller wash, and it's my boat I am skiing behind, I have
learned much about how it planes, how it accelerates and so on,
because I can see my boat from 'outside my boat'.

3. Swimming/Scuba. We are downriver from a coal fired powerplant, So
the river is generally warmer than bath water. It is nice to drop
anchor and just relax with a swim, a dive, or some snacks and one
or two ice cold beers. (no, I don't boat under the influence)

Sure I wish I was the pilot of a bigger boat, but I can kill a whole
weekend on $20 in gas, and another $20 total for food and an airfill
for my scuba. Little boats give more 'fun per foot' I guess.