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![]() Sounds like a great thing! I have to say, it's unusual to see parks folks actively designing to accomodate self-powered craft. The ramp angle is a factor. It doesn't have to be terribly steep for a tired beginner to tip over backwards trying to carry their boat up after a lesson ;-) A mild angle is a good thing. Another thing you may want to consider is to post no swimming signs, and if there's a swimming beach nearby, note on signage there that the area near the ramp is off-limits. We used to hold kayak rolling sessions near a ramp such as you describe, in a pond that also had a popular swimming beach. We thought that we were being good cits by confining our activities to the boat ramp, but over and over again, we would have to contend with swimmers who insisted on swimming near the boat ramp. Swimmers tend to assume that boaters always see them, know where they are, and can avoid them -- a very bad assumption, particularly when the swimmer is periodically submerging and the kayak is rolling. We would avoid them as best we could, but polite suggestions that the ramp wasn't a safe place to swim were generally greeted with curses and you-people rants. We never said anything to the rangers. Despite the fact that it was obviously a boat ramp, they took a very dim attitude towards the presence of boats on THEIR pond -- non-motorized ones, that is; motorized ones were just fine -- and if we'd said anything, they would have given us the boot. -- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::: Mary Malmros Some days you're the windshield, Other days you're the bug. |
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