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| I want to relate an incident that happened to me over the weekend, and to get other opinions and comments.
After dark on this past Friday eve, I told my partner to bring my truck down to the launch ramp so that we could pull my boat out of the water. I pulled up to the launch (an unlit launch) and noticed a boat sitting at the dock with a woman on board. About, one minute later, my buddy pulled into the lot, and began backing down the ramp so that we could pull the boat. As he dipped the rear of the trailer into the water, the woman sitting in the boat at the dock yells out "Hey, arent you going to wait your turn?" Keep in mind, that there was no other car/truck & trailer on the ramp, or sitting waiting, or even running in the parking lot. I did notice two guys standing by another vehicle, talking, but no one backed down the ramp. I paused for a moment, somewhat startled by the loud yelling, and before I could respond, this woman now says "You are f$%king idiot!" I have to say that I was now rocked back in my seat for a moment. I said "excuse me." She replied "Excuse me nothing, you are a f&^*king idiot." By now I am a bit steamed, so I yelled up to my buddy in my truck "Hey, you better pull out of the ramp, there is obviously a rig here that we cant see."
Now my question: What protocol do you guys follow when retrieving your boat? Is the line formed at the dock, or is the line formed by the rigs in line to back down the ramp? I have seen it both ways, and secondly I have to say that there are a lot of other more important things to get upset about in life, other than who is next to at the ramp! |
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Location: The desert | I would have put your trailor in the water and take out your rig. I'm willing to bet you could have got that thing out of the water before they even had the trailor by the ramp. Some people think they own the launches and it gets pretty frustrating. When I run into people that B!%#CH at me at launches, depending on the mood I will give it right back to them or just flat out ignore them. If you were there first and there was no one there with a trailor when you got your trailor there you have every right to take out first.
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Location: Racine, Wi | Mike, you were in the right. If they are shooting the breeze, you have the right to get your rig out. Especially, at night, when there is no "line". I'm glad that was you there, and not me, as I have absolutly lost my tolerance for people like that.
You more than likely are 100x faster than they are at getting the boat out anyway, and they would have sit on the slab unloading and tying up their boat while you waited to pull yours anyway.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I am always amazed when folks are rude to that degree. I'd have simply looked at her and said, "Well, I many be an idiot, but my trailer is in the ramp and yours is not." |
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| sworrall - 9/20/2005 8:46 AM
I'd have simply looked at her and said, "Well, I many be an idiot, but my trailer is in the ramp and yours is not."
Exactly! That's what I would have done as well.
This woman's "partner(s)" were obviously not ready with a truck and trailer to be pulling her boat. No need to make two boats wait. I'd say at that hour and in that instance...go with who's ready. Especially since there was no other vehicle with a trailer in sight that even looked remotely like she had a chance to pull out before you guys. |
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Location: Appleton, WI | mike, you were right. Just another place in society where people completely lose all sense of politeness and common courtesy. The question is if they were uup there talking why was she blocking the ramp anyway. We pulled a boat out for my inlaws last weekend, I drive up no car, nobody in sight boat in the ramp side of the launch, my brother in law waiting, back in get the boat out tie it down and still no car, we got just a look and I just said It didn't look like you were ready to go since no car is here. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | You did the right thing for sure...I would have told that lady that her husband was up shooting the breeze and you had no idea how long that would take....or just tell her to shut her pie hole!
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| I would laugh, and feel sorry for her husband.  |
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| I would have said "I'M an idiot, but you're sitting on your fat $%^ in the boat blocking the %^&*ing ramp and you don't even have your trailer in the water yet! I'M an idiot, but I'll be halfway home before you even get your boat on the %^&*ing trailer. I'd rather be an idiot than a c^&% any day of the week. Now are you gonna MOVE that $^%&ing boat, or should we just work around your dumn fat ignorant a$$????"
But then I kind of turn into a jerk when I'm confronted by people like that  |
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| If I did not know better I would think "Main Offender" was on the ramp that night! That was exactly our thought, that her husband had to put up with Her ALL THE TIME! We had only a few moments of her "personality" but the laughs we had since then go on and on!
JT
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Location: Monee, Illinois | I would have just talked in a different language and laughed the whole way home.
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| If you're not ready to pull out, get the heck out of the way baby!! |
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| He who is prepared to launch/retieve their rig should do so as soon as possible as long as they don't cut someone off. If they aren't ready, and you are....go for it.
I have to tell my mom to tone it down a little.
Probably too many beers....again.
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Location: oswego, il | I would have said "I can see why he just left you." I have done exactly this before many times without incident. I am out of there before they ever make it down.
One time on little arb, I let this guy go ahead of me just being nice. He loaded his boat and kept it on the ramp while he finished doing everything else, making us all wait. |
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Location: Ames, Iowa | First trailer there puts in or pulls out. NO ONE reserves a spot by sitting on the dock.
At a small lake near home this summer, one guy had the whole family wading in the ramp. I backed down until it was time to untie the boat at which time I asserted, "you guys need to get out of the water". Almost got one little guy when mom let him dangle his feet over the side of the dock. Had nearly the same thing happen on Moose lake in Minnesota, with one guy parked in the ramp, stereo going, no boat, everyone bathing, so I guess it's not just an Iowa thing.
People are funny... strange funny.
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| Well, as I am reading the responses to my thread, I have to say that you all have a brought a smile to my face. Pgaschultz was the best! I wish I could have thought of 1% of what you guys have said. Big Dog (JT) was with me when this happend, and he knows me very well. He told me that he wasnt sure what the heck I was going to do, either take the high road (which I did) or light her butt up!
Anyway, like I said, there are bigger things life to get bent about, but a launch ramp isnt one of them.
All the best, to you all!
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Location: Eagan, MN | You were right. The line is formed by trailers, not boats. I've never seen it the other way around, might work at a quiet ramp, but here in the metro it just wouldn't work. It's too hard to arrange 20 vehicles w/ trailers in a parking lot so they match the order that the boats pulled up at the dock. Not to mention the fact that you have boats launching and loading at the same time, how do you keep track of which boat is next in that situation? In fact, at some launches here there are signs that basically say 'if your trailer is not at the ramp get your boat out of the way'. She's an idiot, don't worry about it. |
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| My wife can be such a jerk!!! |
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Location: Neenah, WI | I HAVE FOUND THAT THAT HAPPENS ALOT NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO TO LAUNCH
I NORMMALLY WILL WALK UP TO THE PERSON AND ASK THEM IF THEY MIND IF I LOAD MY BOAT WHILE THEY ARE SITTING THERE. IF THEY BEGIN TO YELL AT ME I WILL SAY "YOU KNOW ON ANY NORMAL DAY I WOULD SMACK YOU " THEN I NORMALLY CONTEMPLATE FOR A MOMENT, THEN I WILL SAY " IT IS A NORMAL DAY " SMACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOOK EM' HARD
SAINT 1
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| Probably should have asked musky fisherman in general are about the only fisherman in a hurry to get out.I do not think you are wrong but I bet many other boater/fisherman would think you are in the wrong.Just ask next time they will pull out right away.(maybe something I should have done and I would not have so many kids,just kidding I love my kids.bill
Edited by 0723 9/22/2005 4:37 PM
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