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June 2023
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Off the Hook
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Well Peeps... its that season again. Temps are on the move, mercury is rising, water temps also. Along with these seasonal changes, so too, is there an in- flux of out of staters and locals rushing to get their boats and watercraft on the highways and waterways here in the “Live Free of Die” paradise. You can swing a dead cat in any direction and hit a different body of water here, we are blessed. Let us now discuss decorum at the boat launches and ramps associated with these lakes, rivers and streams here in the Granite State. Just a few points that will help to make your day and everyone else’s more enjoy- able. The last thing that you want at the ramp is self inflicted stress or (OPD) “other peoples’drama”. Prior to making the trek to the ramp, here’s a few helpful hints for a more stress free and plea- surable experience. Check your batteries, especially the starter battery. If you arrive at a packed parking lot, with an endless line of boaters waiting to launch and your vessels batteries are dead.. not cool! You have just amped up everyone waiting to drop and pop! Another handy tip; don’t wait until you get to the actual launching area at the ramp to have an epiphany that you have not a clue how to back up your trailer, creating grid lock at the ramp, this will set off the already abnormally impatient, short fused dudes and dudettes waiting to launch, don’t be that guy or gal!!! Take the time to practice backing down a ramp prior to the busiest hours at whichever launch point you are using, it will pay dividends in spades, and your neighbors
won’t want you shot at sunrise. Be considerate at the ramp, it will go along way to your enjoyment of the rest of your outing. Week- ends at the launches across this state and pretty much anywhere are the busiest by far and there is little room for error here. Backing up a trailer is not a genetically inherited trait, it’s a learned skill that takes practice, the shorter the wheelbase, the tougher it gets. Do some research on the Google ma- chine before arriving at the ramp, research techniques that are help- ful. It takes practice, so please get out there and practice before you create a stressful situation for everybody involved. If you get lucky, or are a skilled backer upper and you get it right the first
time, please don’t take the first available spot of the dock, block- ing everyone else from launching, don’t take this time to rearrange and organize everything in your boat, creating more of a backlog for everyone that is in line, wish- ing you would get the HE double hockey sticks out of the friggin way! Go to the last , furthest spot away from the ramp and tie up, and move off of the dock as fast as you can, Don’t dilly dally here people, please and thank you.
On the flip side, if you are in line waiting to launch and see someone struggling, laying on your horn and colorful adjec- tives in the parlance of our times, believe it or not, is not helpful. Threatening bodily harm and
everybody in their bloodlines, also not helpful or productive. Get out and offer assistance if you can. Cutting the line because you see yourself as the center of the universe and everyone else is just space dust floating around, also not helpful! I have witnessed
some pretty bad behavior at these ramps here in NH and elsewhere and it can go from peaceful to assa-eleven in a skinny minute. Normally, locally anywho, there law enforcement of some kind at the ramps , especially at high traffic periods to aid in quashing some of the acrimonious behav- ior, but a little understanding and assistance can assuage this kind of civil discourse. If you have a sick and twisted sense of humor, like some peeps I know, go to the ramps on holiday weekends for endless hours of free enter- tainment, kind of like going to a fight and a hokey game breaks out. Have fun and take a kid fishing, be a mentor, teacher and coach. Most kids would love the instruction and you are helping to build a lifetime skill. In closing... “Don’t be that Guy!
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