Quote Originally Posted by sandm View Post
lake havasu last year had a couple guys post up vids of 2+hr waits to launch and the line on the road in stretching for over a mile.
a chunk of those boats tho are 30+ft skaters and having seen several 40-45ft skaters launch at mead, they are not a quick in and drop. it's 20 minutes for a couple to drop a boat that size into the water.
We had 30 a minute wait to launch at Bullfrog in Lake Powell last summer, which was surprisingly long since they have two reasonably sized launch ramps there and it wasn't the weekend. The bigger problem may be this summer. Lake level projections show that Antelope Point and Bullfrog Marina may be out of water this summer. That will put tremendous pressure on Wahweap and Halls Crossing. Halls is not capable of handling the traffic a combined load from Bullfrog and Halls would place on it.

We are still seeing tremendous boat availability issues here. Reasonably priced houseboat shares have been sold before they hit the market, which is nice for someone who was unloading a boat, like I was, but made it difficult to find the boat we wanted to get onto. All the new boats have also made it difficult to get service done. I would hope that there would be a bump in service capacity at some point, but it doesn't seem to be a very easy market for people to get into.