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![]() "basskisser" wrote in message om... ost (FRANKWBELL) wrote in message ... In article , (basskisser) writes: An obvious player in this scenario is the bizarre and extreme angle of the boat ramp. Wonder what the designer was thinking? I've seen ramps like that before. Not optimal, but the designer was probably compromising for all factors -- tide range, available real estate, need for parking, etc. What was the boat owner's excuse? :-) That ramp is far from steep. It's actually a pretty decent grade. I tend to agree. There is a ramp at Delaware City, Del., that's one of the worst I've seen. It's about ten feet below street level, so you are backing down this steep incline from the street level. I don't know what angle actually is, but, viewed from the water, it looked about 70 degrees (grin). It was probably more like 20. Lake Cumberland, at Smithville, TN. I met some friends there, that had been there for two days. I showed up, no one was at the cabin, so I figured I'd put my boat in. The lake is drained way down in the fall, I went and looked at the ramp, and man, it was steep, so steep I have pictures of it! I thought, well, my buddy Paul put his in, I can put mine in! I eased down the ramp, and the trailer is so steep that the back end of the boat is barely in the water, but the water is over the transom! Later that evening, I said something about the ramp, and they said, hell, they didn't put their boats in, they have a tractor at the office to do that! You are supposed to remove the transom straps before launching. Then the back of the boat can float. |
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