@Suchawittygal, you'd be surprised by how easy it actually is. The hardest part was running wiring from the helm to the engine compartment. There is a fairly easy path (not threading a needle), but I don't fit in the helm compartment. Once I got my wife in there, it was easy. I used a broom handle and attached the wiring to the end of it and pushed it from the back and far forward as I could, she was able to reach in and grab it and we were done!
@Norboo I reused the existing wire for the 4 existing speakers. I had to run new wire for the tower speakers. If it hadn't been 100 degrees the day I installed the stereo, I may have been more patient and run all new wiring. As for Lake Anna, the marina where Lake Country Marine is located has public ramps. I actually prefer Sturgeon Creek myself. On the road they are only a mile or so apart. On the water it's a little further based on the coves you'll come out of. The north part of the lake is more popular. Just above the 208 bridge (where Lake Country is located) the lake splits into an east and west finger. To the east you'll see Lake Anna State Park. You can continue up that way and you'll hit Hunters Landing where there is a little restaurant on the water.
We typically go to the west, we have family with a property up that way where we launch from and store the boat on their lift while visiting the lake. Up that way you'll hit Tim's Lake Anna - which is related to Tim's Rivershore on the Potomac. If you continue up that way you'll come to the sand bar. Since Lake Anna is man made, the sand bar is basically what used to be a hill. Now it's in the middle of a fairly open section of water, but it's only 2-3 feet deep. People anchor all around it and there is a volleyball court in the middle of the lake there. Depending on the weekend, it can be a little crazy and not very kid friendly and other times it is kid friendly. Hit or miss really. Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends are pretty much guaranteed to be crazy. The lake fingers off all over the place, so I'm giving you very general directions, you can easily take a wrong finger, but it won't go far. The lake is only about 18,000 acres and 1/3 of that is blocked off from the "public" side of the lake by dykes. The "private" side of the lake doesn't have any public access ramps (or any place to get gas or food) on the lake. Great if you have a house there since there isn't as much traffic, but also means you can't enjoy any of the amenities on the public side unless you tow your boat around to a public ramp. Which you'd be towing a lot anyway to fill your tank up. The private side is where the nuclear plant spills out their hot water. In the late summer the water in the cove right next to the plant is like a hot tub. We rented a house on that side for a couple summer vacations. My fish finder said the water temp in that cove was 104 in August!!! Like I said, hot tub. We stick to the public side now. Like I said, free place to launch, places to go eat and get gas, etc. The family's property doesn't have a house, so when we go for a week, we rent a house off the lake now and just use the property to hang out at all day long and to lift the boat at the end of the day.