IDNR should post signs at all state ramps requiring boat prep to be handled in the parking lot and not at the ramp. Geist isn't a state lake but the pleasure boaters there are notorious for this crap. Just the other day a couple backed their boat almost into teh water before they unsnapped and removed their cover occupying one of the three lanes for 10+ minutes. Then, once they launched the boat, instead of using REVERSE to back out of the loading lane, she decided to do a 180 degree turn which required her to go forward, in reverse, forward, in reverse at least 20 different times before she could get turned around. It wasn't pretty as they had the line backed up for quite a while.