How exciting! Lots of places around here you can use it too, not just the lake but also the Grand River etc.

Don't forget you need one of these to drive a motorised boat https://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/marinesafet...orfaq-2233.htm and an outdoors card to fish http://www.ontario.ca/travel-and-rec...-outdoors-card

I'm sure you will have lots of fun!

Individually cheap maybe but start adding them all up!!! ..... Maybe take a bucket to bail out with, just in case, Kindles don't like getting wet!

Very pleased for you. Nothing better when you've been working all day and then spending the afternoon and evening splashing around. In fact it’s great when you have a day off too. It’s just nice to be able to get away from people. I think of it as a shed that floats. Luckily for me, HID is not much of a boater and my moorage is just a short walk from my condo so drinking on the boat is not a problem, not technically legal but the water fuzz are virtually non-existent. The only time I've been stopped when some twat of a bloke was smoking dope on the back deck. I basically just told the rozzers to naff off so they didn't board. One of the cops was a Geordie btw.

Best part there in my view...lol

Hard these days to find a place on land where nobody else is....

Huh?? You do live in Canada JS, not the most overpopulated of countries!

But most accessible places by a small car seem to all be full of people...

Granted there is a lot of open space, but nearby where we have access to we always run into people, even where you don't think you will....

Suppose if we could get out to the back country or out to a desolate highway there would be less people, so I should have said around town's and city's to go to in the evening for a couple hours.

But I suppose if it's easy to access there will be people around..

Although I highly dense boarder population.

Eh??????

I expect he means that the effective population density of Canada is the same as the UK because most of the people in Canada live along the US border. People who rent rooms in Canada are probably dim but that doesn't seem relevant.

After your response I'm not so sure either

So it could be ;

1. Really stupid/dim people on surf boards

2. Really stupid/dim people living along the US border

or

3. lots of people living in close proximity (big cities) near the US border



IMHO the 1st option is California same size population but much further away

so I'm with option 2 or 3

Congratulations! I bought my first ever boat and joined the boating fraternity last year, and this year was my first season, ive enjoyed it but i have been dogged my mechanical issues that i have tried to apply a band aid fix to.....it doesn't work!

I have now bitten the bullet and have took it in for repair, and am waiting for the thumping bill! I agree with what many people say, boats are money pits, (its a well know fact in the boating fraternity that BOAT is an acronym for Bring Over Another Thousand) however if you go into it knowing that, and you enjoy your time on the water, then in my opinion its money well spent, all hobbies cost money, and as I always say good times cost money!! I live in the perfect location to own a boat, so even with the cost im really enjoying it so far.

I recommend West Marine for parts, they seem pretty reasonable. I got my boat insured through my house insurance broker, although it is a separate policy and company, it wasnt overly expensive, around $650 a year for my boat, which is a bit of a hot rod boat so i was happy with that.

Winterising is a little more tricky, it depends how mechanical you are, a good friend of mine (who is a keen boater) winterised mine with me last year, i know most of the precedure now, i will just confirm with him this year, one tip i would say that catches a lot of people out, is when you take out the drain plugs in the engine block firstly make sure you find them all! there are four in mine (but it is a 5.7 litre V8) and just when you think all the water has drained out, make sure you poke a small screw driver up there to free up any small debris that traps water, many people dont do that and end up with a cracked block! Just make sure you see that pink anti freeze coming out of every orifice when you pour it in.

Convincing the wife....hmmm....your on your own with that one! lol. Im single, so i only have to convince myself! Good luck anyway!

Hope all goes well.....as i said im enjoying it so far even with the cost, certainly something that I would never been able do when I lived in the UK.

Cheers!

Paul.

We had a boat but not for long. The river and lake that we live near are busy and with only a narrow channel for boats. The wakes make it choppy and so the ride is uncomfortable and there's little pleasure in zooming up and down the same stretch of water. Beautiful the first time but after that it's the same old same old. I thinking about how much we were polluting the water. So the boat was sold. If we wanted to spend a day boating it's easy enough to hire a boat, but we haven't. Husband has a small rowboat with a trolling? Or is it trawling motor on it so he can potter about at dawn catching fish.

Of course one could adopt the credo of the 3Fs, if it flies, floats or ****s rent it.

Thanks Souixie. Got the fishing license last year, just need to get the boating license now, but no rush, boat won't be in the water till next year

I might even have found free storage on a farm, but would prefer somewhere indoors.

I would have been happy with an outboard Oink, but wife thinks they look goofy, plus they are more likely to have transom problems.

Funny how many neighbours shout over "You got a boat Dave?" So tempted to reply with some brit sarcasm, but they wouldn't get it, lol.

True....there is some credit to that, although if your out on it every weekend in the summer, the eventual cost probably equals out, and it is nice to have your own personal touch to your chosen F! which ever one that maybe.