For those of us that do most of it ourselves it is usually quite important how long it takes to get to your vessel to work on it or use it. This question is directed mostly at those of you who do NOT pull your boat on a trailer into your driveway or garage for the winter but keep your vessels in a boat yard, marina or other remote location when it is on the 'hard' (if ever). This question does apply to everyone concerning how far your residence is from your place of boating activities (trailers included of course).The questions are these:1) How far, as the crow flies, in nautical or landwise miles, is your boat from your home?2) How long it usually takes to commute to your boat by car?3) What has been the longest amount of time commuting (excluding stops for shopping)?4) Once out of your harbor, what size body of water are you on (how many miles till the first tack or course change is required)? A lake, ocean or estuary name would suffice.I am asking these questions because I live in a fair sized city (NY) and it can take up to an hours drive for me to get up to Nyack, NY from lower Manhattan to do the 25 +/- nautical miles to get there. The driving mileage is more like 40 +/- but it has taken me nearly 2 hours in the peak of summer traffic when the traffic really sucks and blows (sounds like a whale of a time but it is not). The irony of this question for me is that it takes me an average of an hour to drive from Nyack to Long Island (which is the hypotenuse of a theorhetical triangle) but it takes me a half day to sail around Manhattan into the LI Sound. Of course wind and tidal currents play a big part in the trip planning through the East River as most voyages do.