our boat ramp has become a locals office. he is running a canoe rental business off it. they plug up the ramp with cars and his stack of canoes and yacks. its getting old fast. the other day there was a guy yelling about all the people in his way. I don't blame him its a mess sometimes.
We still had bass tourneys up here in NH. Saw them out a bunch. The ones I've experienced had amazing boat ramp etiquette.
Around me the tourney guys are pretty amazing. Or at least I haven't encountered the bad apples. I usually check the schedule to see of any tournaments before I plan a day of fishing, but this one day I forgot. I show up fairly early, but not super early, it's late in the fall so 6:30am is early enough. Show up and there are a half dozen bass boats in the que waiting to launch. I'm like "Oh boy, this should be a treat" but the next thing I know it's as if Moses had parted the Red Sea for me. They are all pointing at me and my obvious, aluminum, coldwater trolling boat with electric downriggers and waving me down to the ramp. I hear "Let this guy through, get him in the water" I'm solo, with a fairly big boat, but the master of ceremonies it seems helps me tie up to the dock while I go park. I imagine if it was closer to 8am when they can start the tournament then it would have been a different story but I was pleasantly impressed with how they behaved. On the other hand I do recall being stuck on a lake when some absolute Richard Cranium ran out of gas in his truck while he spent an hour working on his inboard engine with the boat still strapped down and backed into the lake. Disabled boat and truck at the only, single lane launch on the lake. He's lucky I didn't have anywhere to be and could still fish.