"Charles B. Summers" wrote in message
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I hear ya Josh... I hate the first trip out too! Not mine, mind you. But
all
the others that sit either on the ramp or at the courtesy dock taking care
of everything that should have been done before leaving the house.

Saturday, when I was headed back home I waited for 20 minutes for this guy
to prepare his pontoon boat. He was parked on the left side of the dock,
and
since I was alone, this was the easy side to dock on. Finally I gave up
waiting on him and took the right side after being courteous enough to let
the guys launching use that side so their trailers wouldn't be blocking
everyone else waiting for the ramp. Finally, I was able to get my boat out
of the water, wiped down, locked down, and ready to leave... and this guy
was still playing around with the pontoon boat.

Is there a reason why you can't set up your tables, open your canopies,
organize your seats, and whatever else you need to do while you're waiting
your turn to launch? Never owned or operated a pontoon boat, so I may be
wrong... but it sure sounds logical.


(Ranting ending for the day... hopefully.)

Charles


You know, both of the ramps around here where I launch regularly have a prep
lane on the approach. You still get guys blocking the ramp for half an
hour. Usually back it an angle to block 2/3s of a 3 or 4 lane ramp.
Amazing. One nice thing about Fisher's is that there are 3 separate ramps
so its pretty hard for somebody to block all seven lanes by themselves. Of
curse if the water is low and you have a bigger bass boat you can only use
the old single lane ramp that all the big pontoons have to use all the time.

Of course I have accidentally put my outside plugs in the livewell drains
instead of the bilge holes once or twice and had to do an emergency pull out
and block a lane of the ramp for a minute. Thank God for automatic bilge
pumps. LOL.

Bob La Londe
www.YumaBassMan.com