Sherman's Point ramp - be aware!

Red shad · **Posted:** Tue Oct 02, 2012 9:18 pm

Picture is self explanatory - seems the ramp has claimed a few trailer axles/trailers/hitches of late. The drop off at the end of the ramp is severe! This one from the other day...

Fortunately its a pretty easy fix but could have been worse....

mblaney · **Posted:** Wed Oct 03, 2012 7:07 am

That's bad! Why isn't the ramp fixed? I am planning a trip to Perfect Vue for the last weekend in October - I don't think I can launch my 19' I/O at their ramp. Should I bring a truck load of 3" clear to fill in the Sherman's Point ramp :roll:

????

DanElliot · **Joined:** Mon Apr 08, 2002 8:59 am **Posts:** 4329

A quick fix would be 4 cement bags dropped in the water , 2 for each side of the ramp.

polliwogg · **Posted:** Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:02 am

He might try welding a flat bar from the lowest part of the shackle on an angle to the frame and make a skid plate so the next time it could slide up and over the edge of the ramp. Somebody said they ripped a trailer apart at Wellington too.

Another thing to watch for is the power loaders leaving a pile of gravel built up out from the ramp. Mcfarlands is bad for that.

Fred Fisher · **Posted:** Wed Oct 03, 2012 2:58 pm

You hit the nail right on the head there polliwogg. "Power loading" It washes out allot of the boat ramps around and if i had my way it would be banned. I used to go down to Mcfarland with my long steel rake i made and pull all the gravel back up to the ramp but it is just to much for me nowadays. I watched a boat that is familiar to us all with a pair of 150s on the back power load there new boat one night and it left a wide 2 foot hole.

Grizzly · **Posted:** Wed Oct 03, 2012 5:07 pm

most ramps are posted ......no power loading........... it dont help

MattClapp · **Joined:** Mon Jun 15, 2009 10:03 pm **Posts:** 210

Grizzly wrote:

most ramps are posted ......no power loading........... it dont help

Are there any 'no power loading' ramps on Quinte? I've never seen one.

Its really up to the municipality to build a safe ramp that is workable for the entire season.

Does anyone have any first hand knowledge as to what Quinte ramps are functional right now? I'd say Sherman's is a no-go (sry red shad).

Tylercurt · **Posted:** Wed Oct 03, 2012 6:53 pm

Church is getting really bad as well due to the water depth and the hole at the end of the cement ramp.
Finkles has a big hole if you go off the metal ramp as well.

Walleye 9 · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2011 12:05 pm **Posts:** 1985

It's kinda funny, but over the years, I've been on many fishing adventures in northern Quebec, where you go to a boat launch in the middle of nowhere, where the closest town has a population of 500, and the public launch is a perfectly sloped concrete pad, with lots of parking (in the bush of course) and they're all FREE!!!!!! In Ontario, we have to pay $5-$10 to launch at most places, and most of the launches are crap!!!

BATMAN · **Posted:** Thu Oct 04, 2012 7:58 pm

Guys,

Why do guys need to power load. It is typically the Bass Boats that love to do this.

Just put your trailer in the water a foot deeper and we will all be happier. The winch is on the trailer, to be used !

Nothing like putting your boat on the trailer nice and easy and you still hit the unexpected pile of gravel left by a Bass Boat. There goes your $900 SS prop.

BATMAN

Doc · **Joined:** Thu Feb 18, 2010 3:37 pm **Posts:** 4

Here we go blaming the bass guys again.

legacy · **Joined:** Tue May 10, 2005 7:55 am **Posts:** 992

I always use my trolling motor to get me on the trailer and almost never the main motor, even just to ease it on.

I get quite the looks and unfortunately, a lot of on-lookers doing it this way because it's not always pretty. I'm too paranoid of hitting my prop!

So count my BB outta the equation for possibly ruining ramps.

Red shad · **Posted:** Sat Oct 06, 2012 8:53 am

Doc wrote:

Here we go blaming the bass guys again.

Well was talking to a guy yesterday who has a bass boat and used to fish tournaments. We were discussing this very topic.....halfway thru he pointed to himself and said 'Guilty'. He said it was quite common in his day. As to these days.....well....their are those out there better informed than me.....

steve-hamilton · **Joined:** Fri Apr 25, 2003 7:40 am **Posts:** 1776

just go to a tournament (bass) and watch them pull out.

then go to a ramp in november and watch the walleye guys pull out.

you'll have your comparison.

West Lake Willows · **Posted:** Sat Oct 06, 2012 2:40 pm

Fred Fisher wrote:

I watched a boat that is familiar to us all with a pair of 150s on the back power load there new boat one night and it left a wide 2 foot hole.

Are you talking about me?

Scott

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