To Pay or Not

[Gazza]

I read several forums with interest and always read similar posts about crappy boat ramps etc I'm just as guilty

But coming from down south where nearly all ramps (I Did say nearly lol) have a jetty or pontoon safe parking no depth worries but you do pay :woohoo:

Now the big question ?

do we winge about the crappy ramps ? and achieve nothing

do we offer that we agree to a pay as you use service ie: x amount /launch( providing the ramp is upgraded)

Or we could offer that we pay a levy on our boat rego with the proviso that proof of every cent of those funds go to the upgrading of services for the Boaties

There's probably heaps more ways

be interesting to see others thoughts

Cheers Gaz

and interestingly the Boat and trailer rego's are nearly 3 x that of Vic figure that out

[Angus]

Like in NSW, id be happy to pay a salt water fishing permit on the proviso it went to these sort of things. I have fished a few rivers in Northern NSW and the ramps I launch at are always fantastic.

Angus

[kriso]

i think with the increases of boat rego we should get this automatically, car rego goes towards mainroads projects why shouldnt boat rego do the same, with the increases it will inject a fair bit of cash pretty quick

[rayke1938]

If you had read the latest bull about the massive increases in boating rego part of the money was to go towards increased facilities. We already pay the dearest boating rego fees in Australia.

Cheers

Ray

[kriso]

yep its bullshit where just paying for bigger christmas parties for Qld transport

[Gazza]

Maybe some BIG questions need to be asked ??

Why do we pay such high fee's for crap ?

as mentioned car rego's go to roadworks so they say

but dumb assed board walks seem to get fixed but not ramps ????

it would be very interesting to see a break down on where our rego's go :woohoo:

Gaz

[rayke1938]

I would support a fishing licence only if the monies were put back into fishing, eg stocking not to ramps etc. More ramps would be more ski lice and the fishos would be paying for it.

Cheers

Ray

[Gazza]

Ray it is in my belief

That having fished most of the coast of OZ with so many different permits licences

I would be Happy to pay an Annual Australia wide fishing licence with funds being spread to their respective areas of payment :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

but back to ramps waterlice pay rego so why not let them help we can with a national licence for our fishing needs

Gaz

[Dazzamcgee]

Please pay!

There are so many wasted ramps up here its not funny!

Some are not much better than a playground slide!!

[noname]

for me, it's not to pay,boaties get ripped off enough already, everybody wants a piece of the pie. stuff them bastards.

[straddiebrad]

i would pay always looking for the best ramps espec ially at thelow tide mark

[AZZA]

I thought I had already paid.

[Clawhammer]

"it would be very interesting to see a break down on where our rego's go :woohoo:

Gaz

[Feral]

Gazza there are a few private ramps around. The ramps tend to be not so good, why it is worth using them is the parking security provided.

I reckon the local boy scouts could earn a few bucks camping at the ramps over weekends for security and asking for a gold coin donation from the users. Particularly the bigger more isolated ramps. (I wouldn't expect them to tackle anyone, just ring the wallopers)

[maxi]

our main local ramp here has just undergone major repairs and the parking area is next...

would suit your vessel fine gazza and the mackeral are starting to show up on the close reefs ....:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: not in huge numbers yet but some good fish to be had

pm me gazza... im hot for a mack session...spots but mostly spaniards ... dont let anyone else know ok ... :P