Boat Ramp Thankyou
After reading the "Boat Rant" thread below, I was thinking I seem to hear a lot about bad behaviour in Boating, and thought I'd like to hear more about the good things that get done out there, good 'ol Aussie behaviour helping out a mate in need when the props fouled, the motors sh!t itself, Dakka steering cable last week, waters got into the fuel, I've drifted too far and ran out of fuel, I'm sure we all have a story or could tell a story.
Here's mine and it's really simple, we've only had our boat just on 12 months now, we're starting to get it set up how we require it, family, fun, fishing.
Between myself, the Mrs, daughter & son (12 & 13yo) were obviously very new especially around the boat ramps, and have been weary of how much time we take on launching and retrieve, that being said with the help of everyone hear and lots of reading, we're going ok, we get all our ropes and tie ons all off out of the way before we back down etc, were very contious of the boat ramp rules so we don't get in everyone way and become a pain in the butt. We also have limited ourselves to certain ramps around the swan river that have the floating jettys to make it easier until we got better at it.
Tuesday we decided to get down to Point Walter, we didn't end up getting there as early as planned (my fault) and it was a bit breezy, no floating jetty....lets just say for our family it was a challenge, going in was ok cause we were the only one at the ramp getting in, but coming home it was busy, bloody hell....two trailers backing down at a time boats not coming in staright onto trailers, some skippers having the skill to drive it on.
Me I had to obviously wait my turn, back the trailer down, help the family walk the boat across from the sand, it was difficult but we didn't do too bad under the conditions.
To the Guy/Family who was after us again I say "Thankyou" for their patience, once we were both pulled out the wa and all tied down, we went across and thanked them and they were so nice and said like, "No no we were like that when we started out, no problem, he said I wanted to come and help you, but you're never sure what peoples response will be, but I also wanted to see you guys also do it as a crew" which I thought was fantastic....so again to the family in the Brown/Silver. Commodore with Ali. Stacer I think thankyou very much.
That being said from some of the stories I hear, I'm bound to run into one of these "NUTTERS" sooner or later.
Cheers.
catchalittle
Posts: 1875
Date Joined: 04/09/08
Thanks for shareing a bit of
Thanks for shareing a bit of positive news about the ramps
Nathan
Gav475
Posts: 398
Date Joined: 16/11/11
nice
Great to hear. I think most people are pretty genuine, patient and keen to help others but unfortunately the small minority of idiots tend to draw all the attention.
When you do come across a nutter just treat them with the contempt they deserve and dont let it put you off . They would be the same idiots that abuse learner drivers on the road, forgetting that they were there once too! The enjoyment and quality time you get with the family far outway having to deal with the odd idiot.
Enjoy!!
alfred
Posts: 3097
Date Joined: 12/01/07
Was at Hillary's waiting to
Was at Hillary's waiting to retrieve and as usual the harbor was full - the usual boat traffic jam.
Saw this boat go right up to the ramp and drop off someone and the boat pulled away. There were many people were just taking their time to retrieve some clearly yakking, with their boats tied up to the end of the jetties, so no one else could go in. Anyway the guy that was dropped off went and got the trailer and managed to get to the retrieve ramp before the trailer of the other boats, so he backed down and the skipper just drove up on the outside to the trailer and was hitched on and the boat was out in less then 2 minutes.
I just wanted to say thanks to that team for demonstrating such a quick neat retrieve and making the harbor less congested.