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fugg any boat you can't put on the roof of the truck yourself. exercise in futility and rage fueled by cash.

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In 1982 I as launching in the dark at Mukilteo for winter blackmouth salmon. I would fish before work. The same guys were using the launch every morning and the wait was 5 minutes. Everyone was running on conditioned responses.

Then in the summer there would be a Silver Salmon run. Launching during the day was a 1 hour wait. Many of those people never would get their boat back in the trailer if not for the kindness of strangers.

But the worst is the Renton launch into Lake Washington for a Sockeye run. Thousands of boats need to launch from one spot. It can take 8 hours of jockeying with other boats to get out.

I got around the Silver salmon and the Sockeye salmon lines by dragging as small boat to the beach.

Boat ramps are places of great amusement. Recreational boaters are the worst. Love it when they pull out and block the ramp while they tie down. They remind me of hunters with see through mounts...seems neither one knows WTF they are doing.

Bass fishermen are the best at ramps. Fast....efficient. They launch or trailer 3-4 boats while the Ski Nautique types are figuring which end of the boat goes in the water first.

11 or 12 years ago my brother and I went fishing with Dad in his 16' boat. He backed it off the trailer and I pulled the truck up while he moved it away from the ramp to another dock to load us. He was having a very hard time and almost bumped into several other boats, making the owners VERY unhappy. It was a bit unnerving watching him make a fool of himself.

The rest of the story: this was one of his earliest spells of confusion because of undiagnosed dementia. He had no idea where he was or how handle a boat. We were lucky that he was able to get it to another dock so we could get aboard.

We came back to the launch after a morning of salmon fishing out on Lake Huron. Pull alongside the dock and tie off, all the other docks had boats tied up with people either launching their boat or getting ready to pull out. Along comes this idiot from Ohio with a 14' aluminum boat on a trailer. He backs in between my boat and the boat across from me. Barely enough room for him to fit...

I always carry a tire valve core removal tool in my truck. People usually have a spare tire for their trailer, never seen someone with two tires.

I was driving from WA to MT every year with a 14' boat trailer and getting two flat tires per trip.

Until I noticed [in my rear view mirror] the boat was going way up in the air when crossing cattle gates.

I slowed down for cattle gates, and the flat tires went away.

I've never seen them used but shocks would help many trailers a lot. I don't know they'd survive being submerged on a boat trailer, though.

I've never seen anything to match the boating pandemonium of the Kenai river during the height of the dipnetting season. 500-100 boats jammed in the same two miles of river. Couple that with a strong tide and some times 3-4 foot chop and wind. Makes for some interesting time on the water.

The boat launch is better now that they have some attendants but it used to be insane to watch some of the "boats" people put on the water. Surprisingly there are few serious incidents for all the craziness of dipnetting season.

Trailer tires won't hold up like car tires. Traveling without a spare is tempting fate.