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Task failed spectacularly. That's an impressive amount of power, puts those little boats in perspective.
Gotta say I’m scratching my head at this one.Nuff said
My wife and I are older and she’s afraid to drive my truck, let alone learn to back up a trailer. I have arthritis issues so I’m not that flexible. We launch and tie off at the dock until I return from parking the truck. It’s the only way it can work for us. When I was younger and had speedboats, I could launch and retrieve in seconds. Those days are long gone. We go during the week to avoid the crowds. This year is going to be insane with the high water levels.
My wife and I are older and she’s afraid to drive my truck, let alone learn to back up a trailer. I have arthritis issues so I’m not that flexible. We launch and tie off at the dock until I return from parking the truck. It’s the only way it can work for us. When I was younger and had speedboats, I could launch and retrieve in seconds. Those days are long gone. We go during the week to avoid the crowds. This year is going to be insane with the high water levels.
Thank youSounds polite and reasonable to me @RobbieO!
+1My wife and I are older and she’s afraid to drive my truck, let alone learn to back up a trailer. I have arthritis issues so I’m not that flexible. We launch and tie off at the dock until I return from parking the truck. It’s the only way it can work for us. When I was younger and had speedboats, I could launch and retrieve in seconds. Those days are long gone. We go during the week to avoid the crowds. This year is going to be insane with the high water levels.
I've often wondered about that. This year I need to teach my wife to drive the boat in case of emergency, because its just the 2 of us. She won't even back her car into the garage. Backing the trailer is never going to happen.+1
Wife and I are in our early 60’s, and she doesn’t like to drive my truck and would not want to try backing up the trailer. This is something I need to teach her to do in the case of an emergency. We also do our water related things (beach, fishing, boating during the week to avoid the crowds) - it’s great to be retired to have this flexibility!
Jim
I agree 100%. Last summer the ramps were extremely steep here in Ca. I was taking my boat out and apparently didn't lock the winch strap. When I got to the parking lot the safety chain was the only thing that kept me from losing the boat. That was a scary AF moment and a great reminder why it's there.Not really etiquette but I’m sitting at the ramp and watched an AR250 remove the safety chain before backing down.I saw this yesterday too with another boat. Safety chain should always be on unless the trailer is in the water.
One of the things I look forward to when I finally retire. Golf cart, cooler of beer, parked on side of boat ramp for Saturday afternoon entertainment ?I think I’m at the ramp too much lol
Relatively normal day on 3 trips to the ramp. Just one older group of people, backed down middle of ramp.They had absolutely no idea what they were doing. Took them 15 minutes to figure out the tow straps. Wasn’t too busy so was more comical than frustrating.