Kajunkamper
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Regarding below, wanted to thank you for some of the suggestions. But also add additional info. There were 2 of us boaters at the ramp. The other boater arrived first. He told me he had arrived about 15 min earlier than I and had already POLITELY asked them to move to let him get his boat. The ringleader answered they would only be a few more minutes. Which turned out to be more than 45 min later. So again, all told, they kept the ramp blocked for more than 1 hour. All of your posts confirmed my fear that this is more common than one would expect and I just dont have a good idea of how to deal with it in the future.
Any advice from someone that has had a similar experience ? Returned to a public boat ramp from a morning of fishing in the river. A mob of over 50 kayakers were at the landing preparing to all depart together. They tied up the single boat ramp for almost 1 solid hour before they all got themselves in the water and departed together. I and another fisherman could not get our trailers into the water to retrieve our boats until this mob finished their preparations and departed in unison. We had no choice but to wait them all out until they departed and cleared the boat ramp.
Any advice should this happen again ? I suspect that this was not the first time these folks had launched their kayaks in this style. Seems like no one understands boat ramp manners any more
Any advice from someone that has had a similar experience ? Returned to a public boat ramp from a morning of fishing in the river. A mob of over 50 kayakers were at the landing preparing to all depart together. They tied up the single boat ramp for almost 1 solid hour before they all got themselves in the water and departed together. I and another fisherman could not get our trailers into the water to retrieve our boats until this mob finished their preparations and departed in unison. We had no choice but to wait them all out until they departed and cleared the boat ramp.
Any advice should this happen again ? I suspect that this was not the first time these folks had launched their kayaks in this style. Seems like no one understands boat ramp manners any more
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