How far do you drive to your boat?

I consider myself fortunate in that everything is in a small triangle: 10 minutes to the boat from either work or from home, and 10 minutes from work to home.
It is life changing. I can go to the boat on lunch and escape for a few quiet moments, or stop off at the boat on the way home if I am worried about a storm the next day and want to check on lines (more truthfully check on neighbor's lines).
For weekend trips, I drop off food and drink at the boat on the way to work so that after work I only have to meet family at the boat and head out.
 
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30 minutes to boat. Land locked in Georgia where fresh water makes maintenance less of a headache but run out of cruising ground quickly. Work from home so often work from boat. Can’t beat that. Life is good! Anyone else dream of the day where your boat is floating in your back yard and you could access any water way in the world from it? Can’t be just me...
 
75 miles and 1:15 to 1:30 depending on how the first 15 miles on I35 go. Most of it is through country roads and horse country though. Quite an enjoyable drive. Funny thing is though we live right on a large local lake that we had our boats on for 20 years. After a while we just needed a change of scenery and more area to boat so decided to move it to a lake 5x bigger. It was a great call because now we actually 'get away' and not just run home the 4 miles at the end of the day.

But all of this may be coming to an end as I seriously consider selling this boat and upsizing the small boat I have in Florida.
 
salty mel said:
30 minutes to boat. Land locked in Georgia where fresh water makes maintenance less of a headache but run out of cruising ground quickly. Work from home so often work from boat. Can’t beat that. Life is good! Anyone else dream of the day where your boat is floating in your back yard and you could access any water way in the world from it? Can’t be just me...
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I also work from home (even pre-Covidiocy) and hope to continue doing that forever. Starting this summer I hope to be working from boat at least a couple days a week.
 
salty mel said:
30 minutes to boat. Land locked in Georgia where fresh water makes maintenance less of a headache but run out of cruising ground quickly. Work from home so often work from boat. Can’t beat that. Life is good! Anyone else dream of the day where your boat is floating in your back yard and you could access any water way in the world from it? Can’t be just me...
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NO! I would not have a water front home in MD. Rats snakes floods, mosquitoes. Flood plain insurance. No way. Had friends lost it all in Isabel. No! I good living 8 miles away from boat. Plus most of the waterfront areas in Baltimore are not the best places to live.
 
View from our rear deck. 150 feet door to stern. :)
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I'm not as fortunate as many and have to trailer my boat, but at the same time very fortunate that I live in Central Florida and have many options for boating. I keep it at my house and can be at several different chains of lakes within 45 minutes - 1 hour. I can also drive to either coast, Gulf of Mexico or Atlantic Ocean, in less than 2 hours.
 
I'm 125miles from the boat, about 2.5 hour drive. This summer will be the 19th year making that drive. The only time it seems a hassle is in the winter. Just a little too much for easy day trips.
 
Used to drive 3 hours each way to our first boat, when we lived in Indiana and the boat was in GH. Same with others here - left right from work Friday (wife normally had the car packed and kids ready), and returned Sunday night.
Now, we live much closer and it's only a 40 minute drive! Much nicer!!
Either way, though, I'd do that drive all over again to get out on the boat and the lake...
 
So how does this end after we know everyone’s commute ?....
 
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