Originally Posted by
dogcaller
We purchased our first boat ~6 years ago and we love it. It's a pontoon (tri-toon) and is very versatile. It's fast enough to do anything we want (pull tubes of kids and adventurous adults as fast as they'd want to go) and there's plenty of room for the kids to bring friends and for people to move about, relax, and not feel cramped. We live near a large lake/reservoir so it's ~15 mins travel time from the driveway to the boat ramp. No HOA, so the boat stays at the house all season, making trips much more convenient than if we stored it.
A retirement dream would be to get a center console fishing boat and a place near the ocean so I could do more ocean fishing. That's hard to come by in Colorado.