Abstract: This disclosure relates to a portable boat ramp adapted for use by skiers, fishermen, campers and the like to protect the bottom and bow of a boat when beaching the like and includes protecting means in the form of a bottom wall and a pair of hollow upstanding walls disposed in generally converging relationship to each other upon and between which is adapted to be disposed the bow of a boat whereby the latter is protected when the boat ramp is resting upon a supporting surface such as a shore, the bed of a body of water, or the like.