I am trying to figure out how people even have the nerve to ask! Have friends that own lake cabins with boats etc. I would never ask to use it. Would they say yes if I did ask? Absolutely they would! However I believe it is wrong to ask to use certain things from friends and family. My father also has a lake cabin and as a kid I would use it regularly. As an adult I would never ask. My niece moved provinces and my brother moved her and was going to rent a trailer to pull behind his old 3/4 ton. I offered my new truck and trailer and he refused because there is that line of what is right and what is not. I finally insisted and he took it. Thats how friends and family should be. Assume nothing, ask only when you need to.