boat ramp rage

[Seahorse]

i can imagine how easy this can happen. just sat and watched boats come and go couple weekends ago at the well. just watching clowns pushing in when other boats waiting for their cars and trailers. could really snott some people sometimes. tell me your experiences.

[Spaniard_King]

Plenty to read just search ramp rage

Garry

[banshee]

If your talking about Jacobs Well I'd have to say that if I had to use that ramp I'd probably give boating away,I had a late lunch there a fair while back and although everyone was well behaved the volume of traffic blew me away,made Ballina and Evans look deserted even on their bussiest days.

[youngfisho]

may I just say

know your boat


know your trailer


and have a routine.


it takes me 1 -2 mins to launch and retreive my boat if that!


takes my old man 10mins! largely due to his crappy trailer, boat never sits straight. cant drive it on. doesnt come off to easy when launching it. He has skids and centre rollers, whereas I have wobble rollers (being deep vee grp boat) never have trouble retreiving my boat. just drive on\drive off


I can understand those who have crappy trailers due to lower budgeting when buying their boat but it really is important. if everyone knew how to drive their boat on it would take seconds rather than minutes to launch and retrieve.

so thats my analogy ramp rage due to crappy trailer myth coupled with basic lack of courtesy and common sense.



andrew

[robersl]

got to admit someone sitting on the ramp and rigging there boat or tieing it down when there are rigging bays provided pisses me off no end more so when it is a 2 car ramp and there is a line up

[Louis]

It's good to watch the antics down at the boat ramp on a public holiday.

It is always amusing.



Louis

[cuzzamundi]

well said youngfisho! and yeah louis, it is very amusing - not to mention trying!!

cuzza

[fishingnottake]

everyone can have a shocker though, it;s all about murphey's law and when you're dealing with something as large as a boat, with wind, currents, often slippery ramps and other boaties, a quick job can quickly compound

[rajawolf]

Plus getting bogged on the ramp and having to take boat back off

[marzoe]

I went down to the local ramp at Gladstone to launch my boat on Sunday morning.
It was a busy time and these guys launching two boats were standing around with their boats on the ramp chatting.
There was a lineup of boats waiting to launch and here these guys are stuffing around talking taking up 2 spaces.
There were lots of kids and women around and no one told them to get off but I tell you that really pissed me off.
You can see how ramp rage can happen

[Rainbowrunner]

What about instead of laughing st people and getting angry about it, give the people a hand. We dont all have the reflexes and knowledge/experience to be time efficient at the ramp I have so far backed 4 trailers down for people having trouble on a busyday. Also helped a few times in wind and tide to get boat to trailer and retrieve.

Youngfisho
I dont like to put my wheels in the water so I will winch my boat up by hand(yes its a slow winch) rather than drive it on.

Dohles rocks pine river a few months ago, early morning, 2 guys with a car parked on the 2 lane ramp fishing obviously been there all night. I have just arrived and rigging boat. People come to me and complain these guys are in the way, gee look at these people ?
There was 3+me waiting to get in, I just went down and politely told them they were breaking the law and the ramp was likely to get quite busy soon and there will be quite a few irate people. They packed up and left straight away with apologies. A friendly word can sometimes work wonders.

Marzoe, I used the ramp there in front of the yacht club in Gladstone for years, what used to get me was all of the cars for the local restuarant patrons parked in the double spaces for cars and boat trailers on a busy day, when we had topark up on the grass/dirt further along the waterfront.

[juicyfruit]

Wait ya turn
Have ya boat unshackled etc before heading down the ramp
Don't shackle ya boat on the boat ramp
Don't do all ya boat preparations etc to close to the boat ramp entrance
Don't go down the guts of a two lane ramp
Know ya boat
If ya can't reverse a boat down a boat ramp, practise at home or get a longer draw bar on ya trailer
AND GAWD SAKES!!!!.....Don't clean ya fish or throw ya bait and fish guts at the bloody boat ramp coz I’m sick to death of out running the bloody crocs (directed at Murray Creek NQ people)

Do of this and I won’t have to take to ya with my shotgun

Merry Christmas

(Really am a lovely non-violent person when not at a boat ramp with ill-mannered uses)

[thumps]

and when she can hit 98 outta 100 on clays..there isnt much room for running either

[juicyfruit]

ya not bad at shooting ya load either dear.....:*:*

[bidkev]

<snip>
Have ya boat unshackled etc before heading down the ramp
Don't shackle ya boat on the boat ramp
<snip>

You've obviously never seen a boat jump trailer at a ramp then?

Mate, trying to get it back on when it's fell short of the water is no joke..........although I can laugh about it now

kev