LAKE ELSINORE: Boat launch construction to start soon
03.07.11
With the hiring of a contractor last week, the city is ready to
embark on one of its grandest public works projects in years ----
the construction of a large boat launch and associated
features.
City officials say the $8.3 million project may rank as the
biggest capital improvement Lake Elsinore has tackled on its own
since building its minor-league baseball stadium, The Diamond, in
the early 1990s.
With six ramps, 260 parking spaces accommodating vehicles and
boat trailers, two 200-foot long floating docks, the launch to be
installed on the lake's northwestern shore will dwarf the city's
Seaport Boat Launch on the northeastern side. The latter offers 90
spaces, four ramps and a metal dock.
Source: North County Times
Wingfoot Lake State Park a new hot spot for bass, bluegill and the Goodyear blimp
23.02.61
SUFFIELD, OHIO
Backing a boat trailer down the ramp at Wingfoot Lake, a fisherman can't help but notice great fishing waters. There are plenty of lily pads, shorelines dotted with fish-attracting timber and brush, weed beds, small islands - and one very large Goodyear blimp.
It's hard to ignore the massive craft, which has been sitting outside of the Wingfoot Lake Airship Operations Balloonport most days this summer, just across the lake from the state park boat ramp. It's easy, however, to get excited about fishing a 444-acre lake that is the crown jewel of Ohio's newest state park, purchased two years ago from the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. for $3.2 million.
Source: Plain Dealer
Boat ramp follies better than TV comedies
24.06.11
I've long contended that you should always bring a video camera when heading out boating.
Some of the antics of boaters trying to launch or retrieve their watercraft at boat ramps all over this province will surely win someone some big money one of these days on that TV show: America's Funniest Home Accidents, or whatever it's called.
Men being men, we will typically overestimate the power of our trucks and underestimate the slope of the ramp, as one sorry individual found out at the Cambridge-Narrows ramp one day when his little two-wheel-drive quarter-ton couldn't manage to pull his boat up the ramp.
Other boaters on the scene who owned bigger, 4x4 trucks, offered to get the boat and trailer up the ramp for him but he insisted his little pick-up could do it, notwithstanding the wheels spinning and tires squealing as the truck sat immobile, blocking the ramp.
Source: Times and Transcript
Entry-level models, such as pocket cruiser 
By Gus Burns | fburns@mlive.com SAGINAW -- The sun glinted off the windshields of about 50 extended-cab pickups linked to empty boat trailers parked in rows like dominos at the Saginaw River boat launch Friday. Boats entered and exited the Saginaw
