[Dredd]

Originally Posted by Motoxxx43

I suppose I've been lucky most the time. When people come out on my boat they bring plenty of beverages and good food. We did have an incident with some fruit punch drink being spilled last summer. Once was enough. No more red solo cups!!
The first thing that came to mind would have to be the folks that "rope off" coves. Example: A boater will rope off a cove on Friday so that they have it all weekend to themselves. I use to run into this while fishing. They run a rope from one side of shore to the other an hang fenders or orange flags on it. Come Saturday they will have their boat in place and have a 100 yards of cove roped off for their own personal use making it impossible to access the distal region of the cove... Its freaking rude.

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Wow, I've never heard of a roped off cove. That is something. What a horrible trend to get started.

[Oregondunes]

Originally Posted by Dredd

Wow, I've never heard of a roped off cove. That is something. What a horrible trend to get started.

Me either...in fact that rope wouldnt be there very long if I did come across one. ~snip snip~.....gurgle gurgle gurgle "What rope ? I didnt see any rope when i got here !"

[husker_fan]

I'm so new to boating I've never had anyone but our family on the boat....but I'm learning a lot from this thread about ground rules I'll have lol.

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[Motoxxx43]

Here is another... While I had my 250 slipped this past weekend we got to watch the launch ramp for quite some time. It was going pretty smooth for the most part considering it is the start of the season. That is until launch ramp etiquette came into play. Here is the story: Multiple vehicles in line to use the ramp. Two creep forward to get a view of what is going on at the waters edge. While they pull up a third vehicle pulls out from behind both of them and proceeds to back his boat in!! The guy cuts off not one but TWO other boaters to get in first!!! Revving up his obnoxiously loud black cloud producing Cummins in the process. But it did not stop there folks, as if that is not rude enough. The jerk continues to back his 30' boat into a patch of water approximately 35' long next to do dock. He has 35' because there is a boat tied to the dock while its owner parks the truck. So how does the jerk manage to fit 30' of boat into 35' of water and get it off a trailer!? He has his cronies rope up to the boat and attempt to yank it off the trailer with about a foot of clearance from the boat that was tied waiting for its owner! I could not believe my eyes! Here comes the owner of the tied boat with some well deserved choice words after seeing this event unravel on his way back down the ramp from parking. They almost went to blows over this causing quite a scene. He unties and backs out in a hurry, presumably pissed off. So they get the room they need to launch the boat. The driver takes off peeling out and smoking out the ramp. The jerks tie up and get in and tell the driver that backed them in all about it as if they were in the right.

Launch ramp etiquette or lack there of my pet peeve of the weekend... Keep in mind this was Sunday @ 85* and now it is snowing here.

In the picture I hope you can make out the clowns trying to pull the boat of the trailer in shallow water. It did not work for them.

[husker_fan]

Ha! I already have a launch ramp story and I bet I haven't been in the water more than 10 times. One of the last times we were there I was at the dock and had jumped out to get the trailer. Wife had the boat at the end with a dock line. Captain Crownline flies in and backs his rig down the ramp, no big deal since we were clear at the end. He has a full load of genius already on board, gets it off the trailer, the wind immediately pushes it back and around to where my boat was. Their solution? Hang over the back and use their feet to shove mine out of the way. All while my wife is holding the line trying to not lose the boat and kids.

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[ColoradoDiablo]

Can't fix stupid Husker............well at least not legally! Hope the boat and mamma are good

[woodward33]

He has a full load of genius already on board, gets it off the trailer, the wind immediately pushes it back and around to where my boat was. Their solution? Hang over the back and use their feet to shove mine out of the way. All while my wife is holding the line trying to not lose the boat and kids.

Please tell me these "geniuses" were from the Iowa side of the river and not Nebraska

[ShabahZ280]

Originally Posted by woodward33

Please tell me these "geniuses" were from the Iowa side of the river and not Nebraska

They're everywhere....