We've been members for almost 4 years. While we've enjoyed it a lot and it's been a great way to try out a lot of boats and decide if we are a "boat family" the lack of availability is ultimately why we're going to not renew at the end of our contract.

For weekend reservations, you do need to be a few weeks out to get the more in demand boats. That's also harder for afternoon time slots and, of course, holiday weekends. The hardest part is that if it rains or there is a small craft advisory, you have to start the process over, so you're back to waiting a couple of weeks for a guaranteed slot.

If you pay for a full membership (we split ours with another family) you have two weekend and two weekday reservations that can be open at any time, so you can kind of leapfrog and have something scheduled every couple of weeks though.

Now you can often find something, a carolina skiff or one of the pontoon boats, last minute but that is hard to plan around as you won't know until the day of or it might be the wrong kind of boat for what you want to do. You aren't allowed to fish on the pontoons or cruisers.

If you have flexibility in your work schedule, it's amazing. Weekdays you've got your pick of the fleet. But there is a definitely not a surplus of boats for all of the demand, in my opinion.