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On Mon, 01 Oct 2018 17:30:40 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 21:14:14 -0000 (UTC), Bill
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On Mon, 01 Oct 2018 13:17:53 -0400, John H.
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 17:10:25 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 08:59:53 -0700 (PDT), True North wrote:

Since it might be my last time out this year, I decided to head out to
Grand Lake to flush the 3.0 MerCruiser and lower end with clean fresh water.
Bit of a mistake...the rig parking area was chock full with trucks and
boat trailers with the overflow area a bit of a hike away.
Turns out it was some kind of fishing tournament with about 36 boats
registered to participate. We got there around 1300 hrs and one of the
fishermen told us the tournament ran till 1530 hrs. That limited us to
about an hour and a half on the lake. Glad it was a big lake by local
standards with these high powered bass type boats roaring along from
position to position..then stopping to fish..sometimes in my way. I
didn't want to pass too close while they were fishing. The lake surface
was great and quite smooth until be bounced ov er wake after wake.
anyyway, came back early to beat most of them but by the time I walked
up, goy my rig and waited in line for the double ramp there must have
been 20 to 30 boaats all milligg around the small dock..which I was
hogging with the bow rider.I must admit, they were quite efficient
recovering their boats..they would nose up to the dock..one guy would
jump off to get the rig and the boat would back out to let someone else
do the same. Only bad thing was they all seemed to power up on their
trailers..moving the rocks at the submerged end of the ramp. This
wouldn't be so bad in the spring but with the lake down a couple of feet
or so...even I had to carefully back the trailer wheels to the very edge
which had the water half cover my bunks. Anyway, mission
accomplished...burned up some gas and flushed everything out.

Powering a boat up onto the trailer scours the lake bed at the end of the
ramp. You'd think the
idiots up there would know better. I hope you don't do the same.
Scouring is bad anytime.

Most of us do that. Maybe we build better Ramps here.

Shame on you. Although if the ramps extend far enough under water, which
most don't, then powering
up shouldn't be a problem.

That is not really true. When we rebuilt our ramp we actually extended
it 12' farther than what the builder recommended (pavement is 5' deep
at the end at dead low tide, 35' from the water's edge) and the end is
still blown out. We are still debating about what to do but my
suggestion is to fill the hole with bowling ball sized rip rap stone,
When you power load, the water will follow the ramp, no matter how
long it is and wash out the end. My thinking is the rip rap will break
up that flow. Our previous ramp had about 80 bags of concrete placed
down there dry and allowed to cure. That seemed to mitigate the blow
out problem.

Most of our lakes have really long ramps. When over the years we have
400’ level changes, requires long ramps.

When we were at lake powell they going to have to put in a new ramp.
The one they had dead ended up on the beach.

===

I'm glad you mentioned Lake Powell. That is absolutely the biggest
ramp I have ever seen, and most of it was out of the water when we
were there about three years ago.

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