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re: Are boat launches some of the most comical places on earth?
Posted on 5/7/24 at 2:20 pm to morganwadefan
Posted on 5/7/24 at 2:20 pm to morganwadefan
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Best tip I ever learned was one hand on steering wheel at 6:00. Hand going left makes trailer go left. Takes the over-thinking out of the process.
This is exactly how my granddad (damn I miss him) taught me to steer a trailer around the farm at 15 yrs old. Works like a charm. 
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Posted on 5/7/24 at 2:22 pm to bad93ex
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With that said, I have committed every error possible with launching and landing a boat.
This is why I am very patient and try to offer assistance where I can. Because if it can be messed up, i have probably done so.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 2:24 pm to cbree88
I admit I am the third option you chose...
Posted on 5/7/24 at 2:26 pm to Sam Quint
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please explain to a non-boater wannabe baw like myself
Just Aggies being Aggies
J/k
Posted on 5/7/24 at 2:31 pm to SpotCheckBilly
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I've seen that with a couple of old Ford Rangers and heard there is an issue with the parking brake. Having had a 92 Ranger for a while, I can say that is just one of the issues. I did use it to launch a boat on occasion, and was mindful about that.
Picking up my boat once, back in, put the truck in park, set the emergency brake and got in the boat to drive it on. I noticed my reverse lights were still on, I'm like WTF, tied the boat back up get in the truck and it was still in reverse... Holy shite, thank God I set the parking brake. I've launched boats since I could drive at 15, there's always the one time you just fricked up because you've done it so many times.
Any advice I can give some while fishing by yourself, always set the parking brake when picking up your boat...
This post was edited on 5/7/24 at 2:36 pm
Posted on 5/7/24 at 2:40 pm to Beauw
I drive 20 miles out the road to a small landing, so I dont have to be around all the dumbasses using the city dock.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 2:44 pm to cbree88
In the 70’s I dated a girl whose Dad had a camp at False River at the landing,Bonaventures if I remember correctly.
Our routine was to get up early,be fishing at crack of daylight until about 8,then come in and eat breakfast.
Then we would sit in lawn chairs and watch people put their boats in and out of the water for a big part of the day.
Some of the most fun I ever had with my clothes on.
Lots,of aluminum boats in those days,youn could count on 1 or 2 people falling in the water getting in their boats every day.
Saw many a cuss fight when some moron had the landing blocked because
they didn’t get their boat loaded with all their gear .
About the only fish I ever caught there was at night fishing under the dusk to dawn light,caught some really nice ones.
Our routine was to get up early,be fishing at crack of daylight until about 8,then come in and eat breakfast.
Then we would sit in lawn chairs and watch people put their boats in and out of the water for a big part of the day.
Some of the most fun I ever had with my clothes on.
Lots,of aluminum boats in those days,youn could count on 1 or 2 people falling in the water getting in their boats every day.
Saw many a cuss fight when some moron had the landing blocked because
they didn’t get their boat loaded with all their gear .
About the only fish I ever caught there was at night fishing under the dusk to dawn light,caught some really nice ones.
This post was edited on 5/7/24 at 2:51 pm
Posted on 5/7/24 at 2:48 pm to LSUA 75
If you can't have fun drinking a cold beer at Fred's from about 2-5 on a Sunday in the summer, you ain't living right.
That launch is a beautiful shite show....with beer and bands.
That launch is a beautiful shite show....with beer and bands.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 2:50 pm to cbree88
I remember putting the boat into the water with my dad a few years back. We don't get too many chances to go out, as we live four hours apart. It was a bit windy, but we figured we could handle it. Showed up to the public boat launch, and the parking lot was completely empty. That should have been the first clue. We ended up backing the boat into the water, and it almost got away from us completely. Started slamming into the trailer. My dad quickly tied down a rope to the boat, and I ran to get it tied to the dock, setting it up like a pulley to get some leverage. I was hanging on to the rope for dear life about to rip all of the skin off my palms. In complete desperation, I started praying Hail Marys. Finished my first one when some random baw came running to the rescue and gave me some help, so we could get the boat down enough to drive back out of the water. Handed the kid 20 bucks. Probably should have given him $1K since that was just a fraction of the money he saved us that day.
What an adrenaline rush. Dad and I both knew we were about two seconds from watching that boat rip up the trailer and drag the truck with it. My dad now pays for a private launch with much better protection from the water.
What an adrenaline rush. Dad and I both knew we were about two seconds from watching that boat rip up the trailer and drag the truck with it. My dad now pays for a private launch with much better protection from the water.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 3:05 pm to Pork Que
There’s a guy named Alfred Montaner who does a YouTube show called “Chitshow” where he films across the canal from Blackpoint marina in Cutler Bay (outside Miami). It’s hilarious and he’s become a local celebrity.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 3:11 pm to cbree88
Rednecks and watching them destroy their toys is always funny, with yuppies destroying their toys a close second
Posted on 5/7/24 at 3:13 pm to Jizzy08
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There’s a guy named Alfred Montaner who does a YouTube show called “Chitshow” where he films across the canal from Blackpoint marina in Cutler Bay (outside Miami). It’s hilarious and he’s become a local celebrity.
He has. Why SOOOOOO many people continue to use that ramp in the numbers they do is beyond me. If I had to put up with that shite to get a boat in the water I would take up needlepoint....
Posted on 5/7/24 at 3:20 pm to MWP
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Yep, duck season launches can be way worse because when you are launching on a public ramp you are typically doing it to beat someone to a spot and that means tempers can escalate quickly if you frick it up and stall the process. Plus, it is usually cold and sometimes rainy which means that hot cab will feel so good. I have seen at least a handful of launches where a boat was sent out into a river with nobody in it.
We were waiting to launch at Swan Creek WMA in Alabama one morning with air temps hovering around zero. Old boy sitting in the back of a 1420 jon boat with a 6 horse on it. It won't kick over. He stands up on the back bench, waders on, and gives the rope a helluva a pull....and goes head first off the back of the boat. There was skim ice that had been broken...he was a young healthy man....could not stand up in 3 feet of water and walk up the ramp...muscles simply would not work. He was solid white as soon as any of him emerged from the water...it was that cold. We finally drug him up the ramp with a rope and our truck....he was nearly done and had only been in the water a few minutes and was thrashing about working hard. Y'all be careful...had we not been there I doubt he makes it...as it was he was pretty banged up what with us dragging his frozen arse out of the lake LOL.....
Posted on 5/7/24 at 3:23 pm to cbree88
Posted on 5/7/24 at 3:26 pm to AwgustaDawg
I was bank fishing at Mayo Lock and Dam on the Coosa River in Rome, Georgia one Sunday afternoon and a commercial trot line guy backed his old jon boat and ford F150 right off the end of that snotty slick ramp. There was about a 8 foot drop off at the end of a very short ramp...great place to catch fish by the way, that ramp causes a good eddy...and as the boat went over that ledge it drug the truck down and he jumped out just in time. The boat got hung under the winch post and floated the whole truck and trailer a few hundred yards into about 15 feet of water and then the boat floated free and headed to Lake Weiss. When the divers showed up they searched the area where the boat broke free....truck and trailer were gone. They were found about a mile and half down stream....moving water is an amazing force, id almost bet that truck wouldn't have pulled that trailer a mile and a half on a good stretche of paved road....
Posted on 5/7/24 at 3:56 pm to Prosecuted Collins
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If you can't have fun drinking a cold beer at Fred's from about 2-5 on a Sunday in the summer, you ain't living right.
I have no issues launching and loading my boat but this crowd always gives me anxiety. They will yell and give you ratings on how well you did. It's usually the 7-8pm crowd on Saturdays.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 4:37 pm to cbree88
Just bring an ice chest full of beer, and watch the hilarity that ensues at the launch opening day of duck season. Most of ‘em only back up a trailer once or twice a year.
I’ve seen a guy launch his boat on the ramp itself at 5:00 AM, thus blocking all the crawfisherman from getting in the water . That was fun. Another time, I wanted to launch at Bayou Corne, only to find a whole pickup and trailer submerged there. Had to go to plan B that morning.
I’ve seen a guy launch his boat on the ramp itself at 5:00 AM, thus blocking all the crawfisherman from getting in the water . That was fun. Another time, I wanted to launch at Bayou Corne, only to find a whole pickup and trailer submerged there. Had to go to plan B that morning.
This post was edited on 5/7/24 at 4:43 pm
Posted on 5/7/24 at 4:41 pm to cbree88
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’ve seen a guy return to the launch and put his boat on the trailer in order to drain all the water out of it once every 30 minutes because the boat had a leak and the bilge pump wasn’t working.
I’ve seen arguments and fist fights happen because people get impatient when someone else is taking way too long to launch the boat. My cousin’s grandpa got in a fight one time and took the push pole out of his boat and pushed the guy into the water.
I saw a guy launch his boat but forget to tie it to anything, and the boat ended up floating across the canal.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 4:43 pm to cbree88
Nobody has mentioned kayakers yet. Back down in their truck or suburu, unstrap all their shite and set it on the ramp by the water, then go park, then make two or three trips walking from the vehicle and back for all their accessories, then finally shove off. Then rinse and repeat when they come back in from their trip.
Put your kayak off to the side on the rip rap, don't block a boat lane for your stupid shite. I have seen this more than once, unfortunately. I don't hate kayakers but I hate those kayakers. Zero common sense or decency.
Put your kayak off to the side on the rip rap, don't block a boat lane for your stupid shite. I have seen this more than once, unfortunately. I don't hate kayakers but I hate those kayakers. Zero common sense or decency.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 4:43 pm to REB BEER
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Fred's on the Amite River and sit on the patio cracking cold ones on Saturday or Sunday afternoon
Yep
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