Ramp manners

[plowboy]

Drove to Dale yesterday and got to the circle ramp at a local marina. I got my boat ready to launch up the hill and when I got down to the ramp two boats had the ramp blocked. No big deal I thought. They wheeled out several wagons loaded with the weeks supply of fishing gear, clothes, tackle boxes etc. There was no way to make the turn to get my boat in. Well 20 minutes later while I watched them put the last straps on the boat tarp (on the ramp) I finally got out there and caught some fish. I guess it just blows me away how inconsiderate or just ignorant people are about the rules on launching ramps. I am a very easy going guy but it was all I could do to stay calm and just let it go. They were from another state but I think there are some from my home state probably just as bad. Not into state bashing since I know there are good and bad from all of them. I waited 20 minutes and they were half done when I got there.

[SlopFishin]

See it all the time at the ramp. Heck, you see it all the time in everyday life too. As far as folks launching and trailoring, I don't see why so many deem it necessary to back their boats halfway down the ramp and THEN undo the straps, or load their fishing tackle, or check their oil reservoirs, or prime the bulb, or....blah blah....you get the picture.

I see people doing the same stuff (but in reverse) after puting their boat on a trailor.

Don't really know why some people insist on doing that stuff. Either they're too stupid to realize what they're doing or they just don't care.

[raporter]

unfortunately ignorant people have boats too.x(

[know1]

Some of the best entertainment is to take a lawn chair and a picnic lunch and just sit out at the launch ramp during peak season. As long as it's not you involved, it's all pretty humorous!!

[kerneybrock]

got to love out of state people HAHAHAHAHA>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[stratosjoe]

Was on vacation at Center Hill last year. Watched someone in front of me and another boat back in with the road cover on sideways covering the whole ramp. They stopped at the waters edge and got out van-boat-trailer went backwards in the drink. The ramp gods were with me that was the punishment for blocking the ramp.. I left to go to another ramp tears of laughter rolling ,,,,sorry I'm a azzzhol

[charlie1]

There's a very good reason for waiting until the boat is backed down to the water before undoing the straps (well, the one in the front, anyway). As far as the other stuff I agree with you.

[SlopFishin]

I wasn't talking about the front strap. I was talking about the back ones.

[artcarney_agr]

This world is full of amateurs, and of course morons who just don't know any better!

[Danny]

How many of you have seen that new Evenrude E-tec commercial about as much time as four strokes spend in the shop, you forget what you are doing?? I love that commercial. Know why? Because I am not waiting in line to launch.

What kills me is when you get someone who pulls out of line to try to jump ahead.

Last year while fishing a tournament, or I should say waiting to launch, I had walked over to ask the guy running it a question. I was about 14 boats back from the ramp. Well as you would know, the line moved forward, and there were two truck/trailer spots in front of me. Some guy from the back pulled out, gunned it and took off for the front of the line. I walked right out in front of him, made him stop. I put my hand on his hood, and asked my co-angler to get behind my steering wheel and move my truck forward.

One of these days I am going to get shot, I just know it. I just hope my life insurance is paid up. LOL

I do agree with the statement about the enjoyment of it all. Especially if you are not in a hurry too. It is really great watching the guys with the big old luxury liners or the cuddy cabins or whatever they are called. I've seen them walk out to the back of the boat, in shoulder high water trying to guide their boats on the trailers. It is fun to watch. Unless you are waiting to load as a super-cell thunderstorm rolls in. Dang that hail hurts.

Danny

[charlie1]

It's actually pretty funny to watch someone that forgot to unhook the back straps if they have a light trailer. You ever seen that? They unhook the front strap, the boat floats the trailer up with it and the person in the boat wonders why the boat won't back off the trailer. What a hoot.

[plowboy]

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Mar-27-06 AT 05:30PM (EST)[/font][p]Boy if hooking the back straps and putting the transom saver was all they were doing I wouldn't have thought anything of it. They were apparently moving all the contents of a house boat into the boat and truck. The cart they wheeled down the dock was huge. And after making me wait that long to see them drag out the Ranger travel tarp and proced to put it on and tighten every strap was unbelievable to me. I seriously thought about saying something but I wasn't going to let it ruin a day on the water for me. I would have been mad after a verbal confrontation and wouldn't have been able to concentrate on what I was there for, fishing. It would have been so easy for them to wheel the cart up the hill a little bit and loaded and tarped it there. Well I had a pretty good day and only lost 20 minutes so I can't complain too much.