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This is a older thread that deserves to be a Sailnet poll.
IMHO this is best measured in the time it takes to get to your boat, since traffic and mode of transportation vary widely. If you have to row out to your boat, count that time to. So it's door-to-door, or door-to-hatch if you prefer.
If you move her (as I do in the winter), use the average distance.
it's in the driveway for the winter, soon as this blasted snow settels down It will be at the harbor either Blain or Bellingham. Then It will be about a 30 min drive.
It takes me about 3 days, 8000 miles, and a case of Bud to get to my boat. 2 day's to get out of Iraq 1 day flight to U.S. be there Jan 2, sailing to Key West FL.
The boat is parked in my yard right now, so it's a minute or less from the kitchen door to walk across the driveway, climb the boat stairs, and step aboard.
But it is off-season.
In season, it's a four-hour drive to where the boat is normally moored.
I voted "15-29" but that's in the summer. Right now, it's 1/2 hour to get to the Island Airport, then a 2 hour walk around Toronto Island too get to the actual boat.
Getting to the boat is one thing. Being able to use it is another. Currently sitting 100' from the water. Snow. Ice. It all sucks. Need summer badly.
1800 miles away down in La Paz, Mexico enjoying the 90 degree weather. We'll be cruising the Sea of Cortez for a week in April, then the long haul home to SF where she'll be 30 minutes away.
I'm currently about an hour and a half away, but that's because the boat is on the hard up in Maine. In a month and a half (weather permitting), I'll be sailing her down to Boston, and then after a bit of preparation, I'll be zero minutes away, living aboard!
Too far! We live in Chicago and the boat is in Kemah, Texas. Long way but we try to get down there for long weekends every month to six weeks. The plan is to move down there eventually and end up retiring there. It'll work out sooner or later.
I'm about 15 minutes away until the lemmings come out of their offices at 5pm, and it turns into 45 mins!
I can usually be on the water in an hour or so.
True, I get to drive by and check on her every time I go out, but until recently there were few other options due to a lack of launch ramps (I row out).
I have to plan around the tide quite a bit or I can spend the whole day motoring in and out, so until I retired I was pretty limited in my after work sailing. Nowadays I can pretty much go sailing when I please!
Recently friends on the other side of town have offered the use of their dinghy float, so I may move her over there when next I commission her.
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