Won't use Boynton ramp anymore
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Won't use Boynton ramp anymore
Actually, the ramp itself wasn't all bad. I have no idea how they came up with that lumpy surface, but launching wasn't a problem. But at $10 a boat, you'd think someone would dredge AND mark a decent channel from the ramp to the ICW. The green painted PVC pole and 20ft wide "ditch" are a joke. By the time we got back to the ramp it was dark, and low tide. There's just not enough water to get through even if you find those PVC poles.
Ended up leaving the boat at a friends slip nearby and pulling it out at Lantana the next day. The ramp at Lantana isn't anything to brag about, but it's free, and easy to get to by water.
Ended up leaving the boat at a friends slip nearby and pulling it out at Lantana the next day. The ramp at Lantana isn't anything to brag about, but it's free, and easy to get to by water.
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Actually, the ramp itself wasn't all bad. I have no idea how they came up with that lumpy surface, but launching wasn't a problem. But at $10 a boat, you'd think someone would dredge AND mark a decent channel from the ramp to the ICW. The green painted PVC pole and 20ft wide "ditch" are a joke. By the time we got back to the ramp it was dark, and low tide. There's just not enough water to get through even if you find those PVC poles.
Ended up leaving the boat at a friends slip nearby and pulling it out at Lantana the next day. The ramp at Lantana isn't anything to brag about, but it's free, and easy to get to by water.
Ended up leaving the boat at a friends slip nearby and pulling it out at Lantana the next day. The ramp at Lantana isn't anything to brag about, but it's free, and easy to get to by water.
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As a boynton resident, I bought the $50 year pass, so it's essentially free for me now. I usually launch and recover alone, or with a useless drunk passenger, so the nice ramp is worth it... but on many occasions, I've gotten the skeg of the drive hung up on the bottom in that excuse for a channel from the ICW. It seems no matter where I go -- north, south, or right in the middle, the channel is just too shallow for easy passage.
Those of you (RICK )that feel that there is a "center" that is marginally deeper -- how far north of that PVC pipe and green can is that "center"?
Also, I know that dredging of the inlet is planned, but is the channel to the ramp planned to be dredged as well?
-Andrew
Those of you (RICK )that feel that there is a "center" that is marginally deeper -- how far north of that PVC pipe and green can is that "center"?
Also, I know that dredging of the inlet is planned, but is the channel to the ramp planned to be dredged as well?
-Andrew
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Actually, the ramp itself wasn't all bad. I have no idea how they came up with that lumpy surface, but launching wasn't a problem. But at $10 a boat, you'd think someone would dredge AND mark a decent channel from the ramp to the ICW. The green painted PVC pole and 20ft wide "ditch" are a joke. By the time we got back to the ramp it was dark, and low tide. There's just not enough water to get through even if you find those PVC poles.
Ended up leaving the boat at a friends slip nearby and pulling it out at Lantana the next day. The ramp at Lantana isn't anything to brag about, but it's free, and easy to get to by water.
Ended up leaving the boat at a friends slip nearby and pulling it out at Lantana the next day. The ramp at Lantana isn't anything to brag about, but it's free, and easy to get to by water.
Matt
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[QUOTE=DrFeelgood;2406307]with a useless drunk passenger, so the nice ramp is worth it...
I resemble that remark
Those of you (RICK )that feel that there is a "center" that is marginally deeper -- how far north of that PVC pipe and green can is that "center"?
Trial and error, actually it has more to do with the tides, dont be afraid to trim the drive up, and there is more than sand there, be careful, there is a few rocks buried, ask me how I know.
I dont really like the channel either, but AMF uses the ramp, and my buddy from boynton also has the pass, so we launch the Apache there.
I resemble that remark
Those of you (RICK )that feel that there is a "center" that is marginally deeper -- how far north of that PVC pipe and green can is that "center"?
Trial and error, actually it has more to do with the tides, dont be afraid to trim the drive up, and there is more than sand there, be careful, there is a few rocks buried, ask me how I know.
I dont really like the channel either, but AMF uses the ramp, and my buddy from boynton also has the pass, so we launch the Apache there.
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Haha :-)
I do have the drive trimmed all the way up when I go through there (not trailer-high, but trimmed all the way to the upper trim limit position). And I still drag along the bottom. <shrug>
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I do have the drive trimmed all the way up when I go through there (not trailer-high, but trimmed all the way to the upper trim limit position). And I still drag along the bottom. <shrug>
[QUOTE=rchevelle71;2406410]
with a useless drunk passenger, so the nice ramp is worth it...
I resemble that remark
Trial and error, actually it has more to do with the tides, dont be afraid to trim the drive up, and there is more than sand there, be careful, there is a few rocks buried, ask me how I know.
I dont really like the channel either, but AMF uses the ramp, and my buddy from boynton also has the pass, so we launch the Apache there.
I resemble that remark
Trial and error, actually it has more to do with the tides, dont be afraid to trim the drive up, and there is more than sand there, be careful, there is a few rocks buried, ask me how I know.
I dont really like the channel either, but AMF uses the ramp, and my buddy from boynton also has the pass, so we launch the Apache there.
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Andrew, I "think" the deepest water is if you run right next to the PVC pipe(s)...keeping them to your right as you exit the ramp...probably why they're painted green. I was seeing 6ft on the depth finder once I ran there. I might have been able to get through...if I had a good spotlight
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Michael: yeah, that was the impression I got, that the southern side of the channel was deeper -- but I do know that it immediately gets super shallow just south of that, so there's not much margin of error there.
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Thanks,
Matt