Boat Ramp Etiquette

[johnr]

Patience, very hard to have with a weather event looming. I am getting slightly better as I age and tend to screw up myself more often.

 

[Wild and Free]

This is how I feel every time my wife and I make it look so easy at a busy boat ramp. lol.



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Sometimes I just keep strutting like a peacock knowing we nailed it.............;:;rofl;:;bowdown

 

[onpoint!]

I launch easy enough now with my 'lil 16' I just pull it onto the bunk easily - one-man operation typically and it goes pretty fast. One of my concerns with getting a larger boat this spring is ramp-anxiety - tying it down, getting the trailer and then driving on (in wind, with the occasional 'coach' observing/waiting impatiently). Plan to get plenty of practice during off-peak times, away from busy ramps, but it'll hit the fan eventually. I care more about getting off the lake without damaging the boat or truck than I do clearing the ramp for the next guy, but it'll probably take time to figure out.

 

[Joe]

The biggest issue is having one courtesy dock, and placing it in the middle of the damn ramp. Government bay, at riverdale has the right setup. They have a courtesy dock off to the side, so you can drop a guy off, or if fishing alone, you can quickly retrieve your own truck, and you don't have to wait for the madness to clear at the ramp, or really even be a part of it.

Totten trail, and every ramp along the Missouri, is a perfect example of getting it wrong.

 

[shorthairsrus]

I hate it when people get rangers and become inconsiderate a-holes just because they have a nice boat, maybe they should settle down and respect other people on the water and at the ramp the world does not revolve around them. I myself will try to help anyone out at the ramp that I can see is having problems in hopes that they would do the same for me if I was struggling

ok ok --- It may of not been a ranger ;:;bowdown but it was a nice looking boat what ever it was -- I just couldn't believe he opened it up and went around me though. I wonder what he would of done if I would of nailed it -- he dug in the water for what seemed eternity -- giving him a running start I would of took him without even a full throttle plunge; the rest of the people at the ramp just looked like WTF.

 

[Sum1]

The biggest issue is having one courtesy dock, and placing it in the middle of the damn ramp. Government bay, at riverdale has the right setup. They have a courtesy dock off to the side, so you can drop a guy off, or if fishing alone, you can quickly retrieve your own truck, and you don't have to wait for the madness to clear at the ramp, or really even be a part of it.

Totten trail, and every ramp along the Missouri, is a perfect example of getting it wrong.

A ramp as busy as Totten Trail needs a friggen courtesy dock with the rocky shorelines. And yes the river ramps as well. Especially with what seems like the huge number of new fisher people now using these ramps.

 

[Rowdie]

I've preaching courtesy docks every time I post on a ramp thread.