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I don't know anything about boats, so from that I don't really know how to do searches online for help.

Basically my family just bought a lake house in the last month, which is sitting on a small 2 mile lake, and it has a much larger lake about 15 minutes away from it. While we have a really old 20 foot boat with a small motor on the back to fish from, we're eventually going to be buying a larger boat.

Basically for fishing (for my dad) and what I want to do, water skiing (For all of us college kids).

But from that I don't know where to start looking for boating information. Could anyone help me out or give me recommendations?

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