It’s time to talk about Katikati boat ramp
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Save Don Wallis and Katikati Boating Club members would like to see the Beach Rd ramp raised and widened.
Photo / Rebecca Mauger
Backing and launching a boat is never an easy job but at Beach Rd boat ramp, it can be a real challenge.
Boaties find themselves and their vehicles partly submerged — ruining engines — on the ramp which is too low for full tide launching.
“The biggest problem as we
see it is launching at full tide with the ramp fully covered in water,” says Katikati Boating Club commodore Don Wallis.
“The concrete ramp is too low so they launch at high tide you can’t get to the deep water.”
It is not an all-tide ramp, he says.