New-ish boater, don't want to be "that guy"..

[DPatnaude]

Originally Posted by Denny Crane

At Shep's there has never been anyone to give direction to boaters where to or how to launch, however from word of mouth I was told the left ramp is for the public and the right for Shep Brown's to launch their boats. To this day I'm not sure. As you come down the street approaching the ramp you must take a left into the parking lot, navigate the parked cars and pull around onto the ramp to back up.

I worked at Shep Brown's 1986-1990. At the beginning of my first year, the trailer route was coming straight down the hill to turn left across the ramp and then back in to the ramp with a 90 degree turn. One day, Butch (the head mechanic) decided it should the run the other direction and spray painted plywood signs with arrows to route the trailer traffic as described above around the parking area. Queuing was out of the way of the fork truck and the move to back in the trailer was straight back.

It has now run this way almost 40 years, so it must be working okay.