Lessons learned from buying a pontoon boat

I might be having a midlife crisis. I bought a boat. The funny thing is I had thought about this for quite awhile and even took a test drive on the lake last year, then decided not to buy a boat. I literally said "Is this all it does?" while on the test ride! Then this year rolled around and I bought a boat. A 20 foot long Berkshire pontoon boat to be exact.

Our house is on a small somewhat quiet lake. It's 506 acres with a maximum depth of 80 feet. It has a public boat launch, though really only about a dozen vehicles and trailers can fit in the lot. There's maybe 60 boat slips in both the marina and on small pieces of land where people rent out dock space. Otherwise, everyone else on the lake are people who actually have houses on the lake.  

it's called Lake Orion and it's in Michigan. 

So it's not really a big busy lake. Most people have pontoons on this lake. There's a speed limit of 45 on the water, so there's no need to have a fast boat anyway! We can barely get going with the jet skis before you have to back off the speed. Both the sheriff and local cops are out all the time too, so it's a fairly slow pace cruising around the lake.