The Launch Ramp:

Cost to launch is $5.00.  Ramp is accessed from Fiji just past Admiralty Way.  After you exit on Mindanao on the other side of the lot.

There are lots of room for the ramps and the docks are long.  Once launched remember to move your boat down the tie down dock so that there is plenty of room for the next boat to be launched on the ramp while you go park the car and trailer.

The parking lot is large and often full of boat trailers.  During the Halibut Derbies the launch ramp parking area is filled to capacity.  

It is unconscionable to think that the Dept. of Beaches and Harbors thinks we can park in an underground garage with long tailors and big trucks.  The plans also call for moving to a different lot the actual Boat Ramp.  There it will be less wide.  Less for the tie down docks and then Cross Wind.  The Sailors like this part the least.

The Plans for "On the Water Dinning" will faultier when the dinners have the joy of smelling the boats warm up as they eat their 'Sunday Morning Brunch'.  Not much Return business potential and the new expensive "yuppie" shopping haven will fall by the wayside faster than the Fisherman's Village tourist trap just a quarter of a mile down the road.

Politicians like Councilman Burton Chace promised the people of Los Angeles lots of access to the water and multiple launch ramps when he maneuvered to get the huge funding need to build this large man made marina to service the boating community.  Now we have only ONE launch ramp for all of Santa Monica Bay.  Large amounts of Federal, State and County money has been spent on this harbor.  Most notable is a large State funding for a recent renovation of the Launch Ramp.  

This Harbor was built to enable us all to go boating.  Not just the well to do with the yachts.  The Every Day Joe needs access to the water too.

Watch the Argonaut for news and please let the politicians know your feelings and concerns.  The power brokers are counting on us failing to protect our access to the water.