If your fishing by yourself and launching by yourself, it makes it rough on the bottom of a glass boat as most of the sides of the ramps are large rip rap rock or your beaching your boat on the concrete ramp itself without a dock next to the launch ramp. And it makes no sense to me, as if your at a ramp today, you will see all the docks that were remove, in a near by bay still in the water tied up, so iced in docks are not a factor, cause when the bay with the docks in it freezes over, it's not hurting them where they have been staged.