Certainly worth it for us. We have a group of 5 families that have kept a floating course on a big public lake since 1997. The Lake is 17 KM log, a few hundred boats on the water during summer weekends. We have a bay at the end of the lake with a steep hill to the west and fishermen who clog up the entrance of the bay. Surfboats are definitely making it harder to ski, we have to get out earlier and earlier, and even dusk seems be lost to the surf wakes, where 15 years ago it was just us and the fishermen after dinner. Course goes in mid May, and comes out Mid Sept. We scrub everything, poles, balls, bungies, cable with steel wool as it comes out of the water. In 25 years we've had to replace,1 pole section, 1 mainline, 4 full sets of balls, 8 full sets of bungies, and we lose about 2 balls additional balls every year (we usually just use our old faded balls to replace them). 1 hour to put the course in, with 3 people in 1 boat.1 hour to take it out, with 6 people in two boatsand I spend ~2 hours every year before putting it in making sure all of the clips, bungies.... are good before putting it in. I think if you want to keep it going, you need buddies who are going to work with you to help you take care of it. It's probably going costs us $200 year.