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What are the rules to launching a boat?

Wait your turn, pull forward, back down the middle of the ramp, stop....get out and transfer all the stuff in your vehicle into the boat....take out your electronics and assemble them....ice the drinks down....unstrap the boat....perform a radio check....install the drain plug...call shields on the radio and ask when high tide is....call back home and remind the wife to carry the movies back to blockbuster...double check the drain plug...prime the bulb on the engine...double check fishing gear....wife calls to tell you that rover ate the sprinkler head again...get in vehicle and back the boat in the water...motor boat off the trailer and drive it over to the dock...tie it off and double check the fishing tackle and ensure the engine is peeing....speaking of peeing, time for the coffee to leave...exit boat and find some bushes....ohh yeah the truck is still running....go get in truck and take it to the parking lot and take up two stalls.

Repeat process in reverse for retrieving your boat...this is how Tincan does it, but I just wait my turn, while waiting, unstrap the boat, put drain plug in....get in vehicle and wait until my time and then I back it in, launch the boat and go park..ezpz

The LH is a side by side set up. Prep the boat on the road on the way into the ramp area (before the parking lot), stage and wait in line and move forward past the ramp and pick the open side and back in.

You may have to wait on the DA who thinks he's got the whole ramp to himself.

Chalk wrote:

Wait your turn, pull forward, back down the middle of the ramp, stop....get out and transfer all the stuff in your vehicle into the boat....take out your electronics and assemble them....ice the drinks down....unstrap the boat....perform a radio check....install the drain plug...call shields on the radio and ask when high tide is....call back home and remind the wife to carry the movies back to blockbuster...double check the drain plug...prime the bulb on the engine...double check fishing gear....wife calls to tell you that rover ate the sprinkler head again...get in vehicle and back the boat in the water...motor boat off the trailer and drive it over to the dock...tie it off and double check the fishing tackle and ensure the engine is peeing....speaking of peeing, time for the coffee to leave...exit boat and find some bushes....ohh yeah the truck is still running....go get in truck and take it to the parking lot and take up two stalls.

Repeat process in reverse for retrieving your boat...this is how Tincan does it, but I just wait my turn, while waiting, unstrap the boat, put drain plug in....get in vehicle and wait until my time and then I back it in, launch the boat and go park..ezpz

It takes me a little time to get things in order. Most of the time is spent trying to find a place for all of Chalk's stuff.

Nailed it, Chalkley

Chalk wrote:

Wait your turn, pull forward, back down the middle of the ramp, stop....get out and transfer all the stuff in your vehicle into the boat....take out your electronics and assemble them....ice the drinks down....unstrap the boat....perform a radio check....install the drain plug...call shields on the radio and ask when high tide is....call back home and remind the wife to carry the movies back to blockbuster...double check the drain plug...prime the bulb on the engine...double check fishing gear....wife calls to tell you that rover ate the sprinkler head again...get in vehicle and back the boat in the water...motor boat off the trailer and drive it over to the dock...tie it off and double check the fishing tackle and ensure the engine is peeing....speaking of peeing, time for the coffee to leave...exit boat and find some bushes....ohh yeah the truck is still running....go get in truck and take it to the parking lot and take up two stalls.

Repeat process in reverse for retrieving your boat...this is how Tincan does it, but I just wait my turn, while waiting, unstrap the boat, put drain plug in....get in vehicle and wait until my time and then I back it in, launch the boat and go park..ezpz

I know EXACTLY where Chalk has seen this activity. The boat ramp at St Andrews State Park.

Dubble

Chalk wrote:

Wait your turn, pull forward, back down the middle of the ramp, stop....get out and transfer all the stuff in your vehicle into the boat....take out your electronics and assemble them....ice the drinks down....unstrap the boat....perform a radio check....install the drain plug...call shields on the radio and ask when high tide is....call back home and remind the wife to carry the movies back to blockbuster...double check the drain plug...prime the bulb on the engine...double check fishing gear....wife calls to tell you that rover ate the sprinkler head again...get in vehicle and back the boat in the water...motor boat off the trailer and drive it over to the dock...tie it off and double check the fishing tackle and ensure the engine is peeing....speaking of peeing, time for the coffee to leave...exit boat and find some bushes....ohh yeah the truck is still running....go get in truck and take it to the parking lot and take up two stalls.

Repeat process in reverse for retrieving your boat...this is how Tincan does it, but I just wait my turn, while waiting, unstrap the boat, put drain plug in....get in vehicle and wait until my time and then I back it in, launch the boat and go park..ezpz

I know dats right