Holiday weekends are a carnival of sorts at area lakes, even more so than normal weekends. While campgrounds are busy with bustling activity one of the busiest areas are the boat ramps. It’s often ...

The first thing to do when loading a boat on a trailer in a crosscurrent is to make your approach from downstream. You have much more control when the bow is facing into the flow. Elisabeth ...

Backing your boat down the ramp, especially when there’s a line of boaters ready to start their day who are waiting behind you, is one of the most stressful aspects of boating, right up there with ...

The ramp. The boat launch. The put-in. Heck, much of the info I’ll be sharing here applies even to the Travelift slip or dock for those who store their boats high and dry. In all cases, the actual how ...

A recent story in this newspaper told us that 600,000 people now call Northwest Arkansas home. That's a lot of folks, and a ...

Launching and reloading a boat seems almost an afterthought to seasoned pro's who do it regularly at the same boat ramp. But it can be a bit of a challenge for those with less expertise--or for any of ...