St. Marks area ramps ?

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St. Marks area ramps ?

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Just looking for some real world input based on experience for some suggestions for GOOD ramps in the St. Marks area so we can head out by the lighthouse to fish. Last I launched back in 09, the lighthouse ramps wasn't upgraded so I have no idea how it is today. Back then, not much fun. We have a 19' CC and she's wide and don't need any head aches.
Ideally ramps that are good at low and high tides. The more suggestions and real world input, the better. Along with rough idea on costs to launch etc. I've googled them all but they'll show you some pretty pictures but that's not much help to me.

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The l.h. ramp has been redone, its good. There is the fort(5bucks) and shields, both good ramps at any tide. :thumbup:
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Badbagger,why do you reword your post and post them twice?
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The lighthouse ramp is wide,but wide don't fix stupid.
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Only complaint about the LH, and maybe I'm just a bad captain, but I find the channel to be a bit shallow at low tide...
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Jumptrout51 wrote:Badbagger,why do you reword your post and post them twice?
My apologies, just trying to learn this forum and gather the most responses I can should a post be missed in one part of the index.
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Badbagger wrote:
Jumptrout51 wrote:Badbagger,why do you reword your post and post them twice?
My apologies, just trying to learn this forum and gather the most responses I can should a post be missed in one part of the index.
Sounds like an innocent well-intended mistake, Badbagger, but no need to do it and actually likely will make for less useful feedback.

First off, lots of long-timers on here and guessing for the most part we check by time sequence of post using the "view all new posts" feature, NOT by visiting each board forum individually, and that only makes the duplicate posts all the more obvious. Second, by doing this you can split the responses and the best threads usually are individual ones where board forum members bounce thoughts back and forth within a single thread. :thumbup: :beer:
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lonesouth wrote:Only complaint about the LH, and maybe I'm just a bad captain, but I find the channel to be a bit shallow at low tide...
I think low water is low water. I avoid the lighthouse in the winter cause the basin can be durn near empty. Plus the lip on the end of the ramp makes it impossible to back it in any further.
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There is 6 feet of silt/mud in the lighthouse channel that is not supposed to be there.
The basin and channel was built 6 feet deeper based upon low tide.
It has filled in and the Army Corps will not do anything about it due to NO FUNDS.
One Presidential vacation would be enough money to clean it out.
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It has filled in and the Army Corps will not do anything about it due to NO FUNDS.
One Presidential vacation would be enough money to clean it out.[/quote]
and get change back !! and the tree huggers have a little something to do with it not being dredge or so i'm told
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