This has been an off year for us, mainly because we bought a lake house in northern Wisconsin. Seems counter-intuitive that we would be out on the boat less, but we closed on it in the middle of July. The house doesn't currently have stairs down to the lake, a dock, boat lift, etc. We spent more time, clearing trees for a path/stair down to the lake, building landings, stairs, fixing up the interior, etc.
I'm hoping to have most of the stairs/path built before the snow falls and the ground freezes. This winter I plan to build the dock sections, continue working on the interior. Next spring, I'll get a boat lift, have a garage/pole barn built. THEN it's off to the races, if we don't get out on the boat more next year, then I give up. But given, all we have to do is walk down to the lake, lower the boat, and we're on a 5 lake chain of lakes versus getting the boat ready, towing it 5 miles, launching it, etc. I figure we'll have more hours on by 4th of July than most other total previous years!
That being said, I've been up north every weekend since the end of June, something like 13 in a row. This coming weekend will be the first weekend we aren't going up north. We were out on the boat both days a couple of weekends ago, less traffic after Labor Day, and the weather was in the upper 80's, nearly perfect! Even before we put an offer it, my wife and I discussed the fact that we would probably spend less time on the boat this year, but it the long run it would be better, and we'd more than make up for it in coming years!