is there anyone else on here

kyle41 · Posted: Mar 20, 2007 3:34 pm Post subject: is there anyone else on here

That is required by law to pay a 5 dollar fee everytime they use the boat ramp. Good old pinellas county started this about 2 years ago but the law wasnt enforced very well and i was able to get away without paying until today. I came back to the ramp to be greeted with a 30 dollar fine for failure to pay the 5 dollar fee. I know i had it coming to me but i was just wondering if anyone else has this issue and what you guys think about it. I think with all the taxes I pay that it would be nice if the boat ramp was free to use for the public.

B-Lane · Backside 180 Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 946 City: Towanda

yep, in el dorado kansas last year i had to pay $7, this year i think its going down to $3. it doesnt seem like much but it adds up over time.

price.dan · Backside 180 Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 1404 City: Regina

haha thats a joke man. If it is a public boat ramp you shouldn't have to pay anything, thats what your taxes are for! Where are you expect to pay this ramp fee? Is there a booth there that you expected to go pay before you put your boat in the water?

B-Lane · Backside 180 Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 946 City: Towanda

at my lake they have employees who stay in a toll booth at all entrances to jack you out of $7

price.dan · Backside 180 Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 1404 City: Regina

do they have one of those bars when you pay they raise it? cause that would be sweet if they did

kyle41 · Posted: Mar 20, 2007 3:52 pm Post subject:

Well it used to be a box with an envelope that was based off of the honor system. I most deffinately but dishonor to that system as i would just pretend to place money in the magic money box and then simply take the pass that comes with the envelope and place it on my dash. Now they have this technological magic money box that even takes debit cards and prints you out a slip of the time and date you bought the pass. This one intimidated me much more and i feared that my time would come........it came today Crying or Very sad

price.dan · Backside 180 Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 1404 City: Regina

i would take a baseball bat to it at night, teach it some lessons! then you got no excuse why you cant pay, it simply doesn't work.

Poo · Guest

at local marinas you have to pay here, $10 at the closest one which is 2 mins down the lake, you can actually beat the person in the truck back to my place on the jetski, theres a few on other feeder lakes close by that are free, the only problem with that is the drive over takes 10 mins, but then the drive back to my place on boat or jetski takes 35. so im paying the money anyways in gas.

tad · 360 flip Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 5031

kyle41, yup i have to deal with that sometimes on our lake.. i have a private dock 100 feet from my house but i lost the key to the gate.. so if none of my buddies come out with me i have to drop in at the park.....SUCKS.

Evan71 · Posted: Mar 20, 2007 5:52 pm Post subject:

thats just plain malarky!

scott a · "a" is for angel Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 4126

It's $10-$20 here to launch in centeral and northern Cali. There's a ranger station kind of thing at the enterance and you pay either pay for day use, for overnight stay (for houseboating), or for ___ days, etc.

Poo · Guest

yay for government making us pay for using water. i mean its not like we're gonna take it or anything.

CrzyTexan · Frontside 180 Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 475

yeah but i only have to pay 3 dollars Smile

lake weir ocala FL · Backside 180 Joined: 06 Jun 2005 Posts: 1241 City: Ocala

we put our jetski in at our beach w/ the atv, and if we have a boat out we just use one of my buddies jacked up trucks...i love having redneck friends Smash

DirtyCracker · Guest

its a dollar a person on lake hart where i ride alot. on the conway chain all the ramps will be full by 10 during the summer. and out in windemere i think its like 5 dollars as well but it will be full by 10 Orlando is awesome during the winter no one is out boat ramps are empty but during the summer everybody and their brother have a boat and are out

Brett Leadley · Posted: Mar 20, 2007 8:17 pm Post subject:

It's a joke around here, 10 bucks for the most crowded ramp you can ever imagine, 6 bucks a little farther down the river.. but with a pwc there is a trail through the woods that leads to the promised land Birthday

Paying for gas and everything else that goes into owning a pwc/boat, paying for a ramp just blows.

Jeff_Knox · Backside 180 Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 712 City: J-ville

there is a few places up here where you have to pay...luckily the river is free to everyone boat ramp included.... and if they ever do start charging we will just leave our boat and ski in the water behind my house.... that sux kyle... you should just pay the 50 dollars to drive up here and then ill save you the boat ramp fee... lol

kyle41 · Posted: Mar 20, 2007 8:53 pm Post subject:

TheLeprechaun, haha wow sounds like a deal. Ya its good to know im not the only one getting screwed over. Maybe for some of you 5 dollars might not be much but i can barely scrape together the change for the waverunner let alone just to dump it in the water.

B-Lane · Backside 180 Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 946 City: Towanda