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11-05-2008, 09:48 AM | #1 |
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Long Island Beach boat ramp status
After I saw last week's article on the damaged ramp at the Long Island Beach, I stopped to look. Sure enough, at a point where the bottom starts to really drop off deeper, two of the concrete bars connected by metal links had been lifted into an inverted "V" shape, sticking up considerably. I could see where something had scraped over the surface of the concrete edges sticking up. I also could see that I would not be able to use the ramp in that condition to pull my boat. My best guess on how it happened is that someone forgot to raise his outdrive, it caught on the concrete bar, and the towing vehicle powered its way uphill, pulling the bar out of the muck and stone surrounding the bars until either the driver realized his truck was working harder than normal at this and stopped or the boat and trailer suddenly broke free and he shot forward.
The article spoke of how the town was pondering cost and permitting issues on the ramp repair. Does anyone know the present status of the ramp and any plans to repair it? --------- Edit: Curiosity has overcome patience. I called the town, was told that they are still trying to find out if insurance will cover the repair cost and if the state requires any further permitting process. No timeline on repair is available at this point. Last edited by DickR; 11-05-2008 at 09:57 AM. Reason: Followup: |
11-05-2008, 12:16 PM | #2 |
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wow
Those concrete 'bars' are quite heavy and even harder to move when connected to others. Whatever happened to dislodge then so, it must have been a lot of force.
Does anyone know how it happened? Ken |
07-09-2009, 07:33 AM | #3 |
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Long Island Boat Launch at beach
I would assume without any more discussion on the boat ramp it has been repaired and is in use? Any information on this? Thank you
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07-09-2009, 09:08 AM | #4 |
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Should be fixe now
Town was to make repairs to the ramp the last week in June. It was to be ready for that weekend.
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07-09-2009, 09:22 AM | #5 |
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It appears to be up and running
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07-09-2009, 06:52 PM | #6 |
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I noticed an excavator down there a while back and a oil boom in the water. Figured they fixed it(but didn't check for myself my boat is at Harilla), but never took the use at own risk sign down. Maybe the town feels that should be the policy anyway, fixed or not.
I did look at it before it was repaired, if in fact it was repaired. Definately took some force to shift those slabs, and the metal straps attaching them together were sticking up making it easy to puncture a tire if you were unlucky enough to be aligned with that spot. |
07-09-2009, 09:47 PM | #7 |
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Its fixed and they did a nice job. Put two boats in there last Friday
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07-09-2009, 11:23 PM | #8 |
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its all fixed. been seeing boats pulled from there lately with no problems.
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