I'm Giving Her All She's Got Captain | Miami Boat Ramps | Boynton Beach
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- I'm Giving Her All She's Got Captain | Miami Boat Ramps | Boynton Beach
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So, I've watched a few of these boat ramp videos and I have learnt that outboard motors are cheap in Florida so why not have two or three? Whilst rope is very expensive and fenders unaffordable.
@@pulaski1 I hope I'm worth a lot more than a third of the price of my kayak. 😜
@@pulaski1 Apparently his comment flew right over your head.
Fenders are simply unaffordable.
That was MY clue...
@Andrew Kelly Good one, my friend. Perfect.
@@pulaski1 Ahhhhhh............. never mind.
When i solo luanch,i always make sure i can back down with the dock on my driver's side of the truck. It does for me ,make things easier. And like you said, down far enough the boat floats. Then i pull it off by the ropes, tie it off, park the truck.
And I'm off for day on the water. ✌
Usually, when I solo, I throw the bow lines in the bed of the truck. When the boat floats off, I just hop out, grab the lines, and walk it to where I want it. Granted, it takes a little muscle, but it never failed me.🤷🏾
But, I can definitely see how that technique would work when launching where there is wind and a current.
@@Chris_Troxler I do the same. One long line from my stern cleat, up the side of the cabin and over the bow/anchor (outside the bow rail). Same with my bow line. Two fenders. Once it floats off, I walk it back, secure it to the dock and go park my truck. It’s not rocket science.
@@malekodesouza7255 and Chris. I tweak that a little. I have a rope, premeasured for this task, that has a loop on each end and a larger loop in the middle. Put the middle loop over the trailer post by the crank and the two end loops on the two bow cleats. My mid cleat and stern cleat lines are attached to their respective cleats and then coiled and left on the gunnel tops. Back down the ramp, close to the dock, and tap the brakes when the stern starts to float. The boat slides down the bunks and the bow line gives a little as the boat slides back about 5-8 feet, then holds the boat floating still within the trailers guide poles. Flip the middle loop off the trailer crank post and grab your two lines and walk it down the dock, so there's room for someone else to launch while you park your truck, and tie her off. I have a Grady White Gulfstream, so it works with a reasonable sized trailerable boat. Just another option.
Or just rent a slip and keep the boat on the water so you don't need to go through all that...LOL
When we had a young family we were boaters and man the dock was a crazy time, 🤪. People would get so stressed the key we found was always to be ready when your turn comes. Straps undone, Plug inserted, Boat loaded and Bumpers hanging off the correct side. Fortunately backing up a trailer was a skill my Dad taught me as a real youngster so it was pretty easy when it was our turn.
That's the whole purpose of pull off areas. You enter the boat ramp facility, pull off and prep the boat entirely for launch. Put all gear inside, test fire the engine, remove straps, put in plug. Only then do you get in line for the actual ramp. The other thing we did was drive the boat off. One person backs it down, drive the boat off, the vehicle gets parked, we come back to the dock and pick the vehicle driver up. We never tied up.
This is actually the only time I've seen EVERYONE stops dead in their tracks 😲
I remember going to the 17th St Causeway Ramp in Ft Lauderdale growing up and could be entertained all day watching people launching and recovering boats.
It amazes me how hard people make loading and unloading. I’ve solo launched several times and do it in under a few minutes. Most people either don’t back in far enough, or they back in too far. Like you said though, with a little more slack in the line, it could of floated off the first time he sunk it in a bit more.
To launch solo, while still on the ready line, I release the bow hook and double check the drain plug. Then I loop a bow line from cleat to winch to opposite cleat so the boat cannot go anywhere. Then I back down so the boat is fully floating and start the engine to warm it up for a few minutes. Meanwhile, I free the bow line and position it for tie up along with a stern line and fenders. Then I back out and move it to nearest available dock space, tie up and shut down the engine. Then go park the trailer. Recovery is just the opposite. Works every time in all conditions.
I think it helps if you can make a slow progression from simple to more complex.
For one thing, mistakes are cheaper. More importantly, there are fewer variables, and yet the same essential principles are present in every launch. It's important to see and master those essentials, so that you don't become overwhelmed by details as the situation becomes more complex.
Also, there's theory, which is fine, and essential to have clearly in mind for complex situations. And then there's intuitive feel, which mostly takes practice, lots of practice.
Case in point: I've been sailing for sixty years, mostly crewing yachts. Then I got a sailing dinghy and had to learn all over again, so I put a couple of decades into getting the feel for it. Then I went on a cruise aboard a large schooner and had to relearn what I'd forgotten about sailing yachts. That boat was 225 tons, compared to my dinghy at 225 pounds. At the helm the first time, I let her creep up into the wind. I just didn't have the feel for it any more. I was unconsciously waiting to luff up and ease off, feel the change in heel and way, and by then it was far too late to be putting the helm down. So the whole watch had to run forward and hold the job to windward in order to swing the bow off again. Nobody said a word of reproach, but I can still feel the burn. It was a beginner's mistake. Worse really, because a beginner would have erred on the side of filling out rather than stalling. By the end of the cruise I had it down, but it took twenty hours or more of really working at it to learn new habits. And that's just the helm. It all takes time.
I solo a few times a week. It’s not a problem unless there’s a high wind.
I launch solo about twice a week and can be in and out in about 3 or 4 minutes.
Based on these videos, the skipper and Gilligan's seem like master Mariners.
“He has to have noticed that, right”. Now that was a funny remark.
When in Rockport TX I'd hang out at the boat ramp and watch the show, lol
I’ve launched hundreds of times solo and I’m a paraplegic and have no problem. This guy is lost and made a simple job difficult. These days I have a 45’ cruiser I drive and dock all the time single handed. I taught myself all the needed techniques to make the boat do the work. I don’t have thrusters and I don’t like anyone grabbing my boat from the dock and pulling or pushing on it. Guest will ask what you want me to do when I’m pulling in to dock. All I want them to do is stay out of my line of sight stay seated until I have the boat where it needs to go.
The guy with the lines = "Good plan, poor execution." That's the way I launch mine, and when you do it right, it's a great way to do it.
Your right. If he had moved the stern line to the cleat on the dock further in the water. The boat would have sailed back with out a problem. The only other thing he needed to do was to either removed the guide pole or move the line around it.
I launch by myself ALL the time. One bow line secured to a dock clear, float the boat and pull away, making sure the dock line clears the guide pole that is only tall enough to appear above the water's surface. ALL of these guys use guide poles that are unnecessarily tall, making it difficult to get a line over them.
I don't get how people can be so terrible at problem solving. Like, you see the stern line getting tight and slamming the boat over to the dock, so you keep adjusting the bow line. How does that logic work?
Lol I don't get how that was so hard for him. I launch all the time by myself and the stern line is the one you want the most slack in lol
@@mikep1989
He LOOKED at the stern the seocnd time it slammed. I was astonished when he climbed out and walked past it. But, it worked that time, so i guess he saw wat we couldn't.
The outdrive won't trim up initially probably because the skeg is wedged in the ramp texturing when they stopped driving up the ramp, and the weight of the boat, trailer, and vehicle settled backwards a little bit. It gets wedged in any pit or hole just behind where they stopped if it was dragging. Don't ask me how I know.
I launch in an abandoned sandpit by myself. We don't have a fancy boat dock by the launch. I tie a long line from the bow to the back of my pickup, back down and float the boat, release the bow line and putter over to one of two fishing docks and tie off. Go back, move the truck, and all is ready for the next boater. We aren't as busy as you guys and no one is ever in a hurry. If someone needs an extra hand, there is always one available. But that's the way we are, here in the Plains States. It's not uncommon for the one lane ramp to be congested by 3 or more trailers. Upon a closer inspection, they're all laughing and gabbing, telling fishing stories, comparing boating equipment, and they may not know one and other. They are just having a great time.
This is how you launch a boat solo:
- back down until the trailer tires are in the water, but not far enough that the boat is floating (assuming you have already removed transom straps and installed plug)
- engage parking brake, if you have 4x4, engage that as well, put truck in park
- get out and remove the winch safety chain, and put the winch into free spool mode. If you don't have free spool mode, put it in reverse
- get back into truck and slowly back into water until boat starts floating. The boat should start to peel some slack off the winch, and you will hear it happening. Stop immediately when it does.
- engage parking brake again, get out and climb into the bow of the boat. If the boat is too far away, winch it back toward you
- start boat engine. While it is warming up, get out your lines/fenders if you haven't already, and go back to bow and remove winch strap
- back boat off of trailer and dock. Then go get your truck and park it
This method ensures that you don't end up with the winch safety chain removed before backing down, and also that it doesn't get tight by the boat floating before you try to remove it. You also still have the boat attached to the truck/trailer via winch strap before you start the engine(s) so if it fails to start, you can simply winch the boat back onto the trailer. You also don't have to deal with dock lines getting caught in guide poles, or trying to figure out slack/length etc. I've seen and used a lot of different methods, and this is by far the easiest/safest in my opinion.
Memory serves me right you can get line lock winches which allow you to set slack on the line so that you can set it to allow the winch to go into free spool but only for a certain number of turns.
Frankly dont understand why Americans have so many problems with these simple tasks. If you want to make reversing easier reverse up to the ramp. stop when the trailer wheels are just shy of the ramp. Unhook the trailer but leave safety chain around ball of tow hitch. Jump back in and reverse backward. Trailer will naturally roll straight backwards instead of swinging left or right.
Or simply get boat set up and untied. Fix bungee cords to rear corners of trailers and attach to boat. Reverse into water so it floats. Attach lines to ramp. Detach lines from the boat. Pull trailer out. Its all really simple. I grew up in South Africa and we dont have these guide poles and so on. We just know how to launch and recover because its pretty simple.
That will work but it's a little inefficient. Back in the correct depth for your boat/trailer the first time, unhook winch, climb in, start motor, back off. If you know your boat/trailer well, you only need a one step back-in.
@@mikewubben2844 Yes also true. But unfortunately there are a lot of people who struggle with normal launch/recovery.
Just like with beaching boats. A lot of people struggle to do it right same with surf launch although surf launch through waves is somewhat more of a challenge. Never understand people who stuff up coming in through waves and either. Ride wave till it breaks and follow it in. simple stuff.
@@hogwild5844 I was referring to Chris Kirby.
The good news is, skegs and props can be repaired. Usually pretty reasonably.
Dad bought a boat with half the skeg ground off and the prop all chewed up. Took them to a prop place in Dallas came back like new.
Even as a teenager, I was loading and unloading my dad’s boat without issue. I don’t understand how people make this so difficult.
Omg u were that cool?
Nah but you mom was back in school man I miss the ole girl 1 TON tanya
Same here but most people are stupid. It's the same people that drive out of the gas station with the nozzle still attached to the car. I'm guessing they all share the same DNA.
alcohol
Booze & Miami/S FL?
powering on and off the ramp makes big deepholes at the ends of the ramps.. get the trailer wheels stuck in them and ya in for some fun times getting it out
This is a compliment. 😊
I do enjoy watching your channel. Please continue reading……
To me, you sound just identical to actor, Steve Buscemi (in Soprano’s; Fargo; Armageddon; Mr. Deeds, etc). Plus he was a NY Firefighter that volunteered to help search for people when 9/11 happened.
Everytime I watch your channel (which is about everynight), I imagine that actor Steve Buscemi is narrating while in a Hawaiian shirt, sitting comfortably in a lounge chair watching all the good things happening at the boat ramps with binoculars.
I do hope you take this comment as a compliment & please keep up on the ramp entertainment. 😊
Happy anchors 🫡
Cheers 🥂!
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
A boat ramp is a very entertaining place to sit! People who don’t frequent the bay/river/ocean often are bound to make some critical mistakes. I’m even guilty of doing it once myself years ago when I was young. Some of these mistakes are EXPENSIVE and a few you wonder have they ever operated a boat in their life!
When I launch solo I will usually unhook the bow strap, tie a rope from the bow hook to the winch post with about 15 ft of slack, then back her down till she floats and tap the breaks, then pull out so that my winch post is just out of the water(so I don’t have to get my feet wet, then I take the rope off the winch post and walk it down the dock and tie it to a cleat or post and then go park the truck. I do this method about twice a week by myself and I can be in and out in about 3 minutes.
Most of my launching is done where there aren't docks right next to the ramp. These guys have it easy, and still manage to make it difficult.
Wow, what a day
I solo launch my 18" pontoon all the time. I can pull in behind a roof mounted kayak and be in the water before they have the straps off. You just have to have a routine.
18”? I didn’t think they came that small.
@@timb426 even smaller
A "routine" . . . that works. So many here seem to have routines.
Sadly I drug my outdrive my first time out boating. Thankfully the prop was already ready to be replaced so it was an easy fix. Man was I embarrassed.
0:34 Did that once… 😂😂😂 OPPs
I launch alone all the time. I back in deeper than I am loading. I just push the boat off by hand and have a line tie to my bow eye and just walk with it to the dock. I can't understand what's so hard about unloading a boat.
One or two turns and a half hitch will hold these boats. I see they all put many turns and pile the line on each cleat!
So glad I had a community ramp in the Keys. No mayhem ever.
But what do you do for entertainment?
your commentary was the best not bashing just genuinely confused lol
I was on that boat, the hydraulic pump had a loose wire. We new it was down pulling it up, but we should have looked in to the problem more. We bent the prop back in to shape it was bent good but its stainless
Watching time: 8 minutes. Empathy time: 80 minutes.
Please don’t say “ when launching by yourself there is really no right or wrong way “ when clearly there is a ton of wrong ways. The second guy in the video had a really hard time , very insecure about what to do and I personally think you shouldn’t buy a boat before you go and learn how to operate one including loading / unloading / transporting.
When launching alone it’s pretty simple . Attach a bow line to a cleat , and take the other end of the rope and tie it to the trailer post where the ratchet is , back straight in all the way until the boat floats off . Pull a little forward (2-3ft) and the rope will tug the boat back towards you , grab the rope and tie off on the dock … presto …
Loading by yourself , power load the boat until it rest on the rubber stopper upfront , ratchet it and tighten it up .. TRIM YOUR MOTOR (s) up and leave !
Thats the way i do it works every time we also launch in the sand a lot on the Columbia River just tie it off to the trailer back down let it float off the trailer pull forward and pull it on the beach
That's exactly what I do, takes two minutes...TOPS.
I mute this bozo, Its hard to hear his fake reactions, and his bad advice... im assuming what you quote is more "guru ridiculousness". The dock action is good enough on its own.
@@jb-il3vh If you don't want to hear him then WHY are you here bozo?
@@NATJWIL27 well the footage is good, thats why I'm here. I always watch muted.
But you are smart, you knew that from reading.
We need more then just 8 or so minutes! Give us 15!
When you wonder why the ramp drops off 4 feet after the concrete, this is why.
Just use one line once boat floats off trailer tie up boat very simple
Ouch!!!
At 1.21 When You See THREE Blades on a FOUR Blade Prop !!!
Launching solo, I leave the bow strap on, get it floating, get wet releasing the strap, bow and stern rope it back and to the dock. I never understood how one can go out on the water and not think they'll get wet-don't want to get wet enjoy the day on the shore.
Iv'e noticed boaties in America don't like getting their feet wet when launching or retrieving their boats.
@@johnsipolis Neither do I. Why should I? It really isn’t necessary to get my feet wet. 😄
@@albertjanrijswijk7849 Going boating and worried about getting feet wet doesn't add up🤔
WOW!
It's a miracle some people survive to adulthood.
when i launch and recover my 5m boat i always only use a rope tied to the middle of the boat side. that way it will not turn from front or back and boat stays straight snug up against the dock
We all seem to like a demolition derby. But for newcomers to this: launching and retrieving is not difficult. Just be methodical (and like pilots, use a check sheet) Try it a few times on a quiet day without onlookers or passengers. If you are rushing, pulling hard and breathing heavily, you are doing it wrongly. Don't forget your car (you really don't need a Tonka Truck) has way more pulling power than you. Keep your driven wheels on dry ground, especially if you have 2WD, and try to get so slick with the process that you enjoy it. PS Small boats are often more difficult, my 25 footer with Mercruiser outdrive, was very benign, and I could launch and retrieve on my own.
Every time my wife asks "do we really need this house with a dock on a Gulf accessible canal?" I pull out Miami Boat Ramps videos...............
That unloading solo was friggin painful to watch. I solo unload a 28 footer with no issues at all.
Se me va a ir todo el día en eso.
By me watching this video. I see something I want to bring into detail. Now I'm not into boats. I'm not a boating enthusiast. But it looks like to me one ramp per boat. Versus two boats per ramp. Everybody loves elbow room
Try that on a saturday
Second guy will get it right now that he's see what he needed to do the first time
I have a feeling people in Florida are leveraged to the max on depreciating assets
Has anyone of the "power the boat up the ramp" guys ever forgot to stop to get the guy of the boat into the truck and just left with the guy in the boat?
Do you mean beyond getting the rig clear of the ramp & just hauling down the road?
I've seen it happen when they were just going to their place a mile or so from the ramp.
I watched the guy on the right struggle to load his boat on a floating trailer more than the rope guy. So many saltwater guys seem to back too far down when loading. The bunks are designed to center the vessel on the trailer. If you back too far that wont happen. The boat will also slide down the trailer when you power down the motor. These videos also reveal how many don't understand how to use the wind and current to their advantage when approaching a dock or loading. It is torture to watch, LOL
He had it floating at one point, just pull the trailer out from under it while it was floating.
The second guy..
All he needs is that bow line to be around 2x the length of the boat. No stern line needed.
I have been soloing for 20 years... Back it in. Get out of truck. Unhook winch. Get in boat. Start the engine. Back off the trailer. Ease over to dock. Hook center cleat line to dock. Shut off engine. Connect stern or bow line to dock (or have passenger do it) Leave engine to warm up if friends present. Go park truck. Remove bow or stern line. Get back in boat. Start engine. Load in friends if not already there. Put up Bimini (or have friends do it while parking). Remove center line. Back away from dock.
I'd guess his friend told him how to do it by himself, and this was his first attempt.
MANDLBALM!!!!!
the first boat that drug his prop on the ramp -- his boat was also crooked on the trailer.
7.42 gets boat launched ..drives of into parking lot leaving boat running!
@2:00 got the right idea, just needs to be refined with a few tries
Dragging a OMC out drive is perfectly acceptable, those are junk anyway. You can tell the owner is a amateur by the way the boats loaded and for buying a boat with a OMC power unit. 😂
There is at least a 4 inch skeg on the bottom of the outdrive so doubtful any prop damage.
Volvo Duo-prop, gonna be expensive getting those 2 SS props fixed, and knowing how flimsy Volvo propshafts are...
Darn, I thought this was a Miami Vice video
Did solo guy leave the engine running when he drove away? I see bubbly action back there.
I don't know why the last boat reminds me of the old "Amphacar".
The bow line needs to be behind the guide posts.
Docking steps
1. Tie off the boat
2. Shut off the engine.
3. Raise the outdrive.
Solo launching is NOT hard to do. I just loop my bowline over the wench upright, back up, hit the brake, and my boat just launches itself. I pull up 3-4 feet, grab the bowline off the upright and tie it to the dock, then go park. Takes less than two minutes, tops. It's that easy.
For solo launches I leave my bow line extra long and secured and coiled up in the bed of the truck. Give it a little nudge on the brakes and it scoots off uncoiling the rope as it floats back. I jump out and grab the end and pull the boat over to the dock. Its 19 foot so that helps.
* solo launch all the time without a problem. The trick is to think about what you are doing before you go ahead and do it.
You almost never see stuff like this in Arkansas. Our biggest problem is kayaks spending 20 minutes getting ready sitting in the ramp.. it's ridiculous and I'm a kayaker lol. When my buddy and I fish he drives the truck and I drive the boat while loading and unloading. It literally takes between 45 second to two minutes once the trailer hits the water.
Sounds like an announcer at the PGA tournaments
I launched my 21ft. boat for 15yrs. by myself. Just loosen the winch a couple inches , back in until it starts to float, grab a line, jump on the dock, and pull it off. Don't see why they make it that hard? Coming in myself, I grab bow and stern lines, and idle in, and make a jump onto the dock with both lines in my hand, and tie it off. It's so easy.
I can honestly launch my Parker solo in less time than most can do it with help.
Can launch my 23se solo with my eyes closed
@@goldiefisher I had to learn early on if I wanted to take my 3 and 5 year old boys fishing. :)
10 yrs as a newbie starting,hundreds of unloading and loading, never drug the motor, or had any problems. Remember folks, these are people who drive, and hold jobs, and raise kids.
Be sure and leave the motor running and in gear when you take off to park the trailer. That's the Pro way.
I know I am not an expert in boating esp using these big boats that you see, but that first one doesn't even look like it is on the trailer.
Man as much as you know I'm surprised you're not a captain of a superyacht
Oh Lort.
get the trailer in the water!
That unloading solo guy: WTH was he thinking? SMH
He did mostly right.
He never put the boat far enough into the water from the start.
Float the boat! Get it off the trailer.
It is not rocket science to single hand launch a boat from the trailer, I did it for 20 plus years but it takes planning & good line management. I always mark my trailer guide-ons with red tape to show how far to sink the trailer for both launching & retrieving as this simplifies the process. Floating rope helps with the launching.
we dont need no stinkin' outdrive!
Contravvenzioni Filischi.
Ive been waiting on boat prices to go down since these videos started, hasn't happened yet
Prices will stay up, high demand due to replacement boats for all the boats damaged by these people.
So, the dude that didn’t trim it up looked like he was supposed to have a four leaf prop, but one broke off?
The longer that the guy tried to launch his boat, I had to think he's a idiot. I launch and retreive my boat by myself and never had that much problem. I'm not perfect either. But as my dad use to tell me " son if not smarter than the equipment that your working with you have lost".
Solo guy should of put it on last cleat, with lots of slack, no other boat there, just pull it in after launch
lmfao
The boat pull in the beginning is a tragic accident. $$! .. the boat used to have a 4-blade prop and by the way it moved around, The whole lower unit gear case is destroyed...ouch.! It was loud enough to make everyone around stop and look.
One of these days am gonna see a boater using a front receiver hitch to launch/ retrieve a boat 🤔 Come on people you have to try it
You gotta assume a certain percentage of folks a intoxicated.
JESUS CHRIST LOVES YOU SO MUCH!!!!!
Okay, take those “guide poles “ off and don’t put the whole trailer in the water. Maybe it’ll come out on the bunks straight. Another trick, turn radio off, roll those windows down and pay attention. You might hear that lower unit bouncing off concrete, or someone yelling stop.
Then you see the knucklehead launch try launching. Dang, he looked at the stern line a few times. My only guess is he smoked a little too much weed on the trip to launch.
The next to last guy left his boat in gear while he drove off.
Why i like your videos more then that knucklehead chit show is he bashes everyone and thinks he is better then everyone else. Keep up the good work and respect ✊
I've been there before where the trim didn't work randomly, took it for granted that the outdrive was up since the trim motor was making noise like normal. Pulled the boat out, SCRAPE SCRAPE. Worst feeling
Why does almost no one think about unplugging the trailer lights before dunking in the water?