No Courtesy on the water.....

[Home Cookin']

Re: No Courtesy on the water.....

Maybe you misunderstand the thrust of my jib?

The "standard" I was referring to is the standard of preparedness, skill, and the practice of carrying backup for most major items on the boat maintained by many serious boaters. I suggest that it is (a) reasonable for casual boaters to go boating on the weekend on many inland lakes without (b) living up to those high standards of boating excellence. My implication is that it might be considered churlish to ignore their plight when such recreational boaters hit a spot of trouble on the basis that they (said recreational boater) shoulda known better. Just sayin'.

I did misunderstand you; I thought you were saying the lake standard was not to take time away from your boating to tow someone. Believe me, there are plenty of salties with problem boats, scant equipment and not even approaching "boating excellance" but being boaters, they will help you out. However, not taking the time to help ("my boat isn't named seatow") is clearly the attitude of a few people who posted here and I think it's both pathetic and wrong.

I also agree with the quote "I don't know, and couldn't care less. I'm not going to use the self-serving cop-out that they should have known, or had been better prepared to excuse my self from offering to help out." Some posters said it was OP's fault he went out with a weak battery and therefore he deserved to have to paddle back to the landing. That attitude, too, is pathetic and wrong.

They need to have a lake, and ramp, just for perfect people so the rest of us humans don't have to deal with their attitudes and looking down their noses at us. Let them go off and form the Mutual Admiration Society. They deserve each other; I don't want to be around them (except to watch and laugh when they have the inevitable problem).

 

[jkust]

Re: No Courtesy on the water.....

Should also note that there is a cost for this launch - yearly is $35, I think the daily rate is $8?

Thanks for the info. We tried one time to get on a few years back, before we had suv's and towed with the minivan for a season. Got to the access, can't recall which, no spots, thought we'd get the boat in and wait for someone to leave. Backed down the super long access a bit and realized there was no way the van would get the boat back out If I attempted since the ramp was so heavily used and slippery. I labored the boat up the angle before actually touching the ramp spinning the fronts, we left, went to Medicine lake and never returned.

 

[oldjeep]

Re: No Courtesy on the water.....

Thanks for the info. We tried one time to get on a few years back, before we had suv's and towed with the minivan for a season. Got to the access, can't recall which, no spots, thought we'd get the boat in and wait for someone to leave. Backed down the super long access a bit and realized there was no way the van would get the boat back out If I attempted since the ramp was so heavily used and slippery. I labored the boat up the angle before actually touching the ramp spinning the fronts, we left, went to Medicine lake and never returned.

I think I know which ramp you are talking about, but the launch in minnetrista is not steep- nice double concrete ramp (solid not strips) with the right slope.