So we went to Lake Don Pedro in the Sierra Nevada foothills Saturday and Sunday. Knowing how it gets on holidays we went out early and pulled off the lake by 4:30pm both days. We never spent more than 20 minutes to launch or retrieve. Saturday wasn't too bad but Sunday was such a total cluster out there that we walked back to the top of the ramp to watch for awhile 
! Here's just a few of the best ones we saw;
So what's with the freakin idiots who circle right in front of all six lanes after they launch!
These dumbasses make it almost impossible to pickup your party after the truck is parked! Had one moron in a Moomba just hanging 50-60 feet off the ramp right in the way! Turns out he was just there posing with his buddies! Ended up yelling at him to move his freaking boat as he ignored our request for access!
Then of course there's the dumbasses that drive right through the marked hazard buoys! Talk aboy a TOTAL lack of brains!
Saw one Malibu ground out, four guys jumped off in less than knee deep water to rock-n-lift it off! Another moron in an old I/O does the same and sits there and just churns up mud! Not once but TWICE did he do it! He actually circled around and came right back through it again! GEEZ!
So i'm waiting to load the boat on Sunday and there's a couple of idiots on the ramp with their boats totally sideways at about 45 degrees and of course this leaves me with a VERY narrow corridor to thread through to the trailer, i make it and load QUICKLY. The guy to the left with a very big I/O cuddy has just ground his outdrive to a pulp and has four guys in the water trying to lift the boat for whatever reason! The guy to the right has an old POS flatbottom jet that has no bow eye to secure the boat to the POS trailer that's missing bunks! He's yelling at the wife, their both in the water and both parties have now blocked lanes for almost thirty minutes!
The miscellaneous category; Some dumbass that kept driving his truck to the bottom of the ramp and sitting at waters edge for 20 minutes at a time, never retrieved a thing! The guy who got his trailer so cockeyed on the ramp he actually blocked four lanes of the ramp and then got out to survey the situation with his wife! The moron who tried to launch a 23 foot Centurion with a LOWERED Chevy truck and had to back in until the water was about 8" above the bottom of the doors! But wait! He then reopens the door because he forgot to release the winch strap while STILL in the water!
But i've saved the best for last, rememeber i said we watched at the ramp for awhile? Well by 6PM there was a single line of about 45-50 vehicles either waiting to launch or retrieve. AS we're watching this mayhem a big lifted Dodge Megacab comes FLYING down the ramp with a trailer and backs in and retrieves a Sanger V215 with a stripper pole attached to the pylon! He then comes FLYING up the ramp and of course everyone watching at the top is booing and giving visual signals, of course they're all laughing and raising their beers. Well it's a WHOLE truck full of flatbillers and their women (about 12 total) and they blow right through the cleanup area and head out. As we're leaving about thirty minutes later we see them at the back of the parking lot cleaning up and drinking. So we stop Mr. Ranger as we leave and explain and he proceeds to go put the screws to them along with a few of his buddies. Dumbasses.
Gotta love holidays!
! Here's just a few of the best ones we saw;So what's with the freakin idiots who circle right in front of all six lanes after they launch!
These dumbasses make it almost impossible to pickup your party after the truck is parked! Had one moron in a Moomba just hanging 50-60 feet off the ramp right in the way! Turns out he was just there posing with his buddies! Ended up yelling at him to move his freaking boat as he ignored our request for access!Then of course there's the dumbasses that drive right through the marked hazard buoys! Talk aboy a TOTAL lack of brains!
Saw one Malibu ground out, four guys jumped off in less than knee deep water to rock-n-lift it off! Another moron in an old I/O does the same and sits there and just churns up mud! Not once but TWICE did he do it! He actually circled around and came right back through it again! GEEZ!So i'm waiting to load the boat on Sunday and there's a couple of idiots on the ramp with their boats totally sideways at about 45 degrees and of course this leaves me with a VERY narrow corridor to thread through to the trailer, i make it and load QUICKLY. The guy to the left with a very big I/O cuddy has just ground his outdrive to a pulp and has four guys in the water trying to lift the boat for whatever reason! The guy to the right has an old POS flatbottom jet that has no bow eye to secure the boat to the POS trailer that's missing bunks!
He's yelling at the wife, their both in the water and both parties have now blocked lanes for almost thirty minutes!The miscellaneous category; Some dumbass that kept driving his truck to the bottom of the ramp and sitting at waters edge for 20 minutes at a time, never retrieved a thing! The guy who got his trailer so cockeyed on the ramp he actually blocked four lanes of the ramp and then got out to survey the situation with his wife!
The moron who tried to launch a 23 foot Centurion with a LOWERED Chevy truck and had to back in until the water was about 8" above the bottom of the doors! But wait! He then reopens the door because he forgot to release the winch strap while STILL in the water! But i've saved the best for last, rememeber i said we watched at the ramp for awhile? Well by 6PM there was a single line of about 45-50 vehicles either waiting to launch or retrieve. AS we're watching this mayhem a big lifted Dodge Megacab comes FLYING down the ramp with a trailer and backs in and retrieves a Sanger V215 with a stripper pole attached to the pylon! He then comes FLYING up the ramp and of course everyone watching at the top is booing and giving visual signals, of course they're all laughing and raising their beers. Well it's a WHOLE truck full of flatbillers and their women (about 12 total) and they blow right through the cleanup area and head out. As we're leaving about thirty minutes later we see them at the back of the parking lot cleaning up and drinking. So we stop Mr. Ranger as we leave and explain and he proceeds to go put the screws to them along with a few of his buddies. Dumbasses.
Gotta love holidays!
With the low water, it's easy to back the wheels off the concrete.
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