Boat ramp etiquette

[mbgaski]

Re: Boat ramp etiquette

What do you do after you've hopped in, pushed off, cranked and it doesn't crank? Get out the paddle? Swim? I make sure my boat starts AND idles before I even unhook the winch chain. It's an extra 20 seconds and anyone that would be annoyed by this procedure would be 10x as annoyed when I am drifting on the launch they're waiting for.

If the gas doesn't crank I can take it out of the way with the trolling motor. Reality though is that the ramp I normally use just isn't typically busy enough to warrant being in too much of a rush. It's not been uncommon to have no one else at the ramp period, and only 1 or 2 other vehicles in the lot. Considering that I'm always going in to either duck hunt or fish though, I'm often putting in between 3am and 7am, so that might have something to do with it .

 

[chris.j.marshall]

Re: Boat ramp edicate

Re: Boat ramp edicate

At our local lake (Lake Lawtonka, Lawton, OK) there are numerous people who "people watch". Our secretary from work actually admitted to going out on Saturday or Sundays after breakfast to watch people "attempting" to launch or trailer their boats.

If it is done right we can launch 5 boats at a time. Seems like most people are still having issues backing trailer. Maybe one day it will be a smooth process.

Just launched my boat there for the first time this past weekend on the schoolhouse slough ramp. Not a very steep ramp. I bet it would be a blast to watch.

 

[chris.j.marshall]

Re: Boat ramp edicate

Re: Boat ramp edicate

I was stuck waiting load one day because the people loading in front of me locked the keys in their truck while on the ramp. Why do I feel like I just jinxed myself to do something stupid at the ramp by telling this story?

 

[hog88]

Re: Boat ramp edicate

Re: Boat ramp edicate

It does seem like normal everday people lose their minds around a boat ramp. I've seen husbands and wives wanting to kill each other, the dock hogs who block everyone out while they wait on a passenger to the guy locking his keys in the truck on the ramp (our favorite ramp is has 1 lane). I can deal with all of this 12 years of boating has made me come to expect delays, BUT the one thing that sets me off everytime.....

The freaking cars parked in the trailer parking spots!!!! This drives me nuts when there are no more trailer parking spots because 1/2 of them have a dang car parked in them.

 

[americaneagler77]

Re: Boat ramp edicate

Re: Boat ramp edicate

It does seem like normal everday people lose their minds around a boat ramp. I've seen husbands and wives wanting to kill each other, the dock hogs who block everyone out while they wait on a passenger to the guy locking his keys in the truck on the ramp (our favorite ramp is has 1 lane). I can deal with all of this 12 years of boating has made me come to expect delays, BUT the one thing that sets me off everytime.....

The freaking cars parked in the trailer parking spots!!!! This drives me nuts when there are no more trailer parking spots because 1/2 of them have a dang car parked in them.

i agree. i block em in. make em drive across the grass or whatever. morons

 

[whitecrystal1]

Re: Boat ramp edicate

Re: Boat ramp edicate

sounds like my local launch except i'm the one sitting in a chair with popcorn and a pepsi watching and enjoying a snack.

lol