"Genius? Not!" wrote in message
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I've got an 18 foot boat. And I'm new to boating. So I've got a million
questions. And probably more to follow those!

I think my day-trip limit, for now, is 2 hours to reach an uncrowded
warm-water lake.

The first thing to come to mind is how far do you like to trailer your
boat for vacations and long weekends?

How far is too far and what's makes your destination too far?

What makes your destination worth the distance?

Marty





Depends on time available and where I want to go. We travel about 135 miles
to out favorite lake, and that takes a little over 3 hours. Is a remote
lake and low speed roads to it. We normally do it for 3 days. Most of my
boating is within 3 hours and 130 miles, but for 4th of July we went to Gold
Beach, OR which is 400 miles and takes at least a day to make the trip.
Since I am semi retired, we make it a 2 day trip with a lake stop in
between. I do have a lot of local areas to boat, 45 minutes to San
Francisco Bay and 1 hr 15 min, 45 miles to the ocean at Pillar Point Harbor.