Thanks everyone for the warm welcome and great advice. We will definitely be picking up a chart before we even think of heading out. We currently have a GPS that is used for hunting but it does allow us to enter way points etc for a return trip, that's actually his toy so I'll let him be the boss of that
I'm sure a more suited GPS is in our future.
We take the boating safety course on Saturday so wish us luck. Both our schedules allow us to finagle weekdays off, that's one thing we are both really excited about, we plan to get lots of practice in by basically just putting around......depending on gas...
That is one question I did have...as I searched through the forum I read where it is not recommended to use gas station gas because of the ethenol....is this the case for all boat motors?