most common boat ettiquette violations at the ramp
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From: Slidell LA
What about the dipchit in the Ford Ranger blocking a double backdown with his hippy girlfriend trying to load two plastic kayaks into the back of the truck! I was ready to crush those smelly kids with my 11,000 LB rig
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From: sint maarten
i was surprised to see you there that day...
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From: The ATX
Any way, It 's a good forum for us to discuss . Thanks a lot !
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I have a couple:
First one was "ME" being the "launch ramp idiot", luckily, we where launching at my cottage, so, it wasn't a public launch, had my 21ft Larson [previous boat] hooked to my 4 wheel drive Envoy, its POURING rain, but, it was 4pm Friday, and I was ITCHING to get out in the boat, so, I am backing it down the ramp, trailer gets back a fair ways into the water, I get out and undo the winch/strap and back a little farthur into the water, boat still isn't floating off trailer, hmmmmmmmm, decide to back a little FARTHUR into the water, STILL, not floating, it was at THAT point I realized that I hadn't undun the rear trailering straps! UGGHHHH!!!
No Problem, right? just pull boat out and undo the straps, jump into truck, put it in 4wd low, and sit there motionless as all FOUR tires sit and spin, unable to even MOVE trailer, much less pull it out of the water. On goes the scuba mask, and I "walk?" into water 6ft deep to undo straps, not the best way to Christan a new boat!
THE ALL TIME BEST!
A family are out boating and are having some "mysterious" mechanical problems, after 30 mins of so of "self diagnostic" they cant figure out whats wrong?
The family decide to pull into a local marina and ask if they can have a look at whats going on? The marina owner gets in the boat and starts it and notices it runs "fine", so, he attempts to go for a test drive, the boat will barely move?
The marina owner decides to stick his head over the side and have a look, he see's something in the water and leans over farthur and sticks this head in the water....
Comes up out of the water laughing so hard he can barely breath......He found the problem, get this!
The trailer was STILL attached to the bow eye!!!!!!!!
I cried when I heard the story, still cracks me up!
First one was "ME" being the "launch ramp idiot", luckily, we where launching at my cottage, so, it wasn't a public launch, had my 21ft Larson [previous boat] hooked to my 4 wheel drive Envoy, its POURING rain, but, it was 4pm Friday, and I was ITCHING to get out in the boat, so, I am backing it down the ramp, trailer gets back a fair ways into the water, I get out and undo the winch/strap and back a little farthur into the water, boat still isn't floating off trailer, hmmmmmmmm, decide to back a little FARTHUR into the water, STILL, not floating, it was at THAT point I realized that I hadn't undun the rear trailering straps! UGGHHHH!!!
No Problem, right? just pull boat out and undo the straps, jump into truck, put it in 4wd low, and sit there motionless as all FOUR tires sit and spin, unable to even MOVE trailer, much less pull it out of the water. On goes the scuba mask, and I "walk?" into water 6ft deep to undo straps, not the best way to Christan a new boat!
THE ALL TIME BEST!
A family are out boating and are having some "mysterious" mechanical problems, after 30 mins of so of "self diagnostic" they cant figure out whats wrong?
The family decide to pull into a local marina and ask if they can have a look at whats going on? The marina owner gets in the boat and starts it and notices it runs "fine", so, he attempts to go for a test drive, the boat will barely move?
The marina owner decides to stick his head over the side and have a look, he see's something in the water and leans over farthur and sticks this head in the water....
Comes up out of the water laughing so hard he can barely breath......He found the problem, get this!
The trailer was STILL attached to the bow eye!!!!!!!!
I cried when I heard the story, still cracks me up!
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Got to experience this last night. Guy left 2 kayaks in 1 of 2 ramps and went to park his car about a block away.....hes lucky someone didn't punch a hole in one while he was gone. All the guy had to do was put the yaks in the grass next to the dock, wtf was the point of putting them in the ramp?
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From: The ATX
Too many hippies for me, but I deal with it......the hippies were the least of my problems yesterday. Aside from the idiots doing donuts on jetskis inside the no wake zone right in front of the ramp, as I was pulling in a guy comes blowing into the no wake zone doing at least 30 mph, putting off around a 4 foot wake and beating everyones boat to hell. People were yelling but guy didn't speak english and was wearing "european boy shorts" for his bathing suit. Pissed everyone off. To top the cake though, a tour bus pulled into the ramp area blocking the ONLY entrance and started unloading people. 
You want to talk about pissed off people in line behind this jackass who easily could have just have unloaded on the road....


You want to talk about pissed off people in line behind this jackass who easily could have just have unloaded on the road....
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From: Tomball (Houston), TX
The thing that chaps my as$ the most though is these "duck" tours. Its the tours that are a big bus that also goes in the water and puts around giving tours of the city/lake. Well these guys blow down the ramp about 20 miles per hour and into a no wake zone, putts a wave like 3-4 feet for all the boats tied up, I haven't seen the cops out there this year to complain but that is super annoying to have your boat banging around for that crap.
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From: The ATX
I read this a few weeks ago and had no idea what you were talking about until last weekend when we were in Austin. Normally we go to Travis so I had never seen these but this time we just stayed downtown. I saw two of them as we were going down 6th street headed to the Hula Hut. I didn't see them go in the water but I can't believe they would haul ass down the boat ramp with those things. That has to create an enormous wake. I'd be pissed too!
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From: The ATX
I always have thought I saw it all until today....jackass kids set up a bike ramp in between the ramps, I videoed it before directing the lake police over to handle the situation.
http://www.youtube.com/user/rexmitch.../0/nW_8zs3B_WM
sorry for the bad quality but it was from my iphone.
http://www.youtube.com/user/rexmitch.../0/nW_8zs3B_WM
sorry for the bad quality but it was from my iphone.



