re: Are boat launches some of the most comical places on earth?

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I've launched a boat hundreds of times and somehow I've never seen anything crazy at the launch

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This is impossible to believe

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There’s the adult who never learned to back up a trailer and has to keep pulling up and correcting it like 10 times.

I’m calling myself out on this one.

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Me too. I bought a house on the water for this exact reason. Just lower the hoist and the boat is in the water. If I do have to pull the boat out for some reason, I go at night when the launch is empty so I'm not making everyone wait on me

I've seen a couple youtube videos taken at a boat ramp in Florida that has about a 15 foot American crocodile swimming around the docks. I forget the name of the channel but the guy making the videos even named the croc lol.

Yes they are, and I've been on the clown end of it myself before.

One time I was putting my boat in at a crowded ramp.
I had a great running old Johnson Seahorse 18hp motor on it, but I didn't know that I had backed into something and had cracked the swivel housing.
I dropped the anchor by the ramp, put the boat in and went to park my truck.
Came back to the boat, picked up my anchor and shoved my boat out and jumped in.
I went to my seat pumped my fuel up a little, pulled the choke, then the rope and it fires right up.
I put in reverse and back out into a little deeper water, then got it turned toward the channel.
I idled out a little further where I knew I was in about 10 feet of water and I gassed it.
The swivel broke and the whole motor comes off the back at full throttle and I'm still hanging on to the tiller handle.
I tried to hang on to it but it almost pulled me in with it, I had to let it go.
Damn that was embarrassing

I watched a guy with a new glitter rocket trying to put it in the water and he just couldn't bring himself to back it all the way where it needed to go to float it, so what does he do?

Puts down his power poles and pulls forward.

Needless to say, that was not a smart move. Now he's got two power poles that aren't going to retract every again because they're both bent, and now he can't even pull up because the boat is about a fourth way off the trailer so in spite of it all, he has to back down where he needed to go to get the thing to float to put it back on the trailer. As he was dragging those poles up the ramp and across the parking lot we were dying laughing in the cockpit of one of our sailboats and we started talking about getting score cards we can all put up at one time to score these kinds of idiots.

Fun times in Fourchon and Grand Isle just drinking a beer and watching. If you see an older boat come in behind an old pickup, they're a pro. Brand new lifted diesel with rims and a shiny boat, grab your popcorn.

Qualified Captain on Instagram will constantly have you shaking your head at people that are allowed on the water.

I worked at a marina outside of Monroe my Senior year of high school. The owner of the marina’s son and I were buddies and he lured me into this job since it required getting up at 5 to be at work at 6 and nobody wanted to open after drinking all night. Absolutely boring for the most part except dealing with some of the more diverse clientele was fun and then sitting back watching the circus at the actual ramp. This lake was known for huge bream hence the reason for the diverse clientele. We mostly rented boats and paddles for this but the folks that showed up with boats usually required a shut down to go watch.

Moon Lake was also fun to watch but Greenjeans liked to show up there as well and that made it hard to sip adult beverages and what’s the point of watching a ramp without some beer?

The best ones involve old boy teaching the wife to back it in...