Boat Contact With Concrete Ramps

**Handicrappie** · 01-28-2014, 05:02 PM

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I gotta pull up onto the ramp to get out. Took me 3 years of solid use and 6 years of owning the boat to wear down the keel enough to have a small leak. I had a good aluminum welder fix me back up though and its at least twice as think as it was so I should be good for a while. Besides, you get used to that metal on concrete sound after a while :-)

**"G"** · 01-28-2014, 05:43 PM

Originally Posted by ATM

Yes it is. With the water level fluctuations the best we can hope for is rubber mats.

Rubber mats would fix it....cannot understand why they do not do that

**ATM** · 01-28-2014, 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by Handicrappie

I gotta pull up onto the ramp to get out. Took me 3 years of solid use and 6 years of owning the boat to wear down the keel enough to have a small leak. I had a good aluminum welder fix me back up though and its at least twice as thick as it was so I should be good for a while. Besides, you get used to that metal on concrete sound after a while :-)

Tell 'em what that welder charged you.

**hotrod1** · 01-28-2014, 05:49 PM

Originally Posted by ATM

Yes it is. With the water level fluctuations the best we can hope for is rubber mats.

Right on.

**Handicrappie** · 01-28-2014, 05:55 PM

Originally Posted by ATM

Tell 'em what that welder charged you.

2 thirty packs of Budlight.... but I did give him another $50. Pretty sure I got a good deal :-)

**ShilohRed** · 01-28-2014, 06:15 PM

Originally Posted by hotrod1

7 ramp is a joke. No way that the boat launching fees will ever pay for that ramp in my lifetime. It's primarily used by bank fishermen anyway. Wyatt's concrete is also a joke. That money could have gone to lay more gravel at Indian mound to park and widen that ramp. Put some boat beaching pads on the concrete ramps. Also mark the river from Holliday to 7 Bridge. Geuss Iam wishing to much.

It is marked I left white paint on a lot of stumps along the bank up through there the first week I had my lund.

**hotrod1** · 01-28-2014, 06:29 PM

Originally Posted by ShilohRed

It is marked I left white paint on a lot of stumps along the bank up through there the first week I had my lund.

Nice

**Slow Retrieve** · 01-28-2014, 06:32 PM

I usually look for a little softer spot on the bank somewhere off to the side of the ramp to ground it so I can go get the trailer. A little more of a hassle but I haven't noticed any damage to my boat.

**rducks123** · 01-28-2014, 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by Handicrappie

I gotta pull up onto the ramp to get out. Took me 3 years of solid use and 6 years of owning the boat to wear down the keel enough to have a small leak. I had a good aluminum welder fix me back up though and its at least twice as think as it was so I should be good for a while. Besides, you get used to that metal on concrete sound after a while :-)

How long of a strip did he weld for you?

**BigRiverMarine** · 01-29-2014, 09:23 AM

They do have the rubber mats at Grenada and Enid at one ramp each, but this time of year, they're not usable. They're 30-40' out of the water. I don't like em in the summer either. They are Slick, and you will burst your butt when they get moss on them. I slipped and fell on the one at Enid last year, and it weren't no fun!!!!! :-)

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