Hey Glass....do you have kids?
I just bought a new ski at the beginning of May. It's the first one I've owned since retiring from the Army in 2009 and the kids being grown and gone. Kids are jealous, but oh well! LOL!
Both of our kids have awesome memories of growing up camping and that campsite was always near water. From boats to Ski's, they've grown up being on them. It was a lot of work on my part to keep the maintenance done, and the kids learned responsibility via cleaning whatever we took out, and we have a lot of awesome family time on the water no matter where I was stationed.
Good luck to you and yours while you make those memories!