A width marker to help ski wide enough when free-skiing

[swbca]

This was originally posted deep into an unrelated topic.  so I copied it to its own topic.

This is about installing a 35off free-skiing width marker in your boat that will show in your pylon camera videos.  Since no one is keeping score, it could be helpful for free-skiing at 32 or 38 off as well.  Or you could install it for another rope length.  If you have a course available at all times and all wind conditions, there would be no point in doing this. 

• *** You will be tempted to try skiing wide enough to get the rope over the floaty . . In this photo you can see that's wrong because the rope is always blown back in this phase of your turn.  Concentrate on skiing wide enough to line up your view of the blue marker with the pylon . . forget about the rope.  The photo was taken with the skier running a regulation course at 35off/34 to illustrate how the skier buoy,  the blue marker and the pylon mounted camera are all in line.
   
• The Blue floaties are used instead of tape markers on the boat gunnels because they are high enough to appear in your slalom videos taken with your pylon mounted camera.  Using tape markers is a common practice but you can only see them in your videos if you are using a wide angle lens . . . These floaties are high enough to be in your video using a "normal" focal length like with this skier video using a cell phone zoomed to be "normal" equivalent.
   

• The PVC is screwed to the face of the side pocket of our ProStar 197 with a standard PVC plumbing fitting that has a flange with 2 screw holes for this type of use.  On this boat I set the screws in epoxy because the side pocket is made with a soft fiber board.
• The PVC ends at the yellow line, so the foam floaty has the flexibility to fold over when the rope drags across it every time your skier has pulled wide to drop at the end of a pass.   You can slide the markers off of the PVC when for a boat cover or other circumstances. 
• The calibration instructions that came with my OffCourse system can be used to locate these markers in your boat.  Use your preferred rope length when using their method of marking the location.  Microsoft PowerPoint - OffCourse" User's Manual English V4.2.pptx (rodicsinnovation.com)
  
  (edit) or take a look at the templates that @BraceMaker posted below.

Edited February 5 by swbca

[BraceMaker]

flag slalom calling.

[BraceMaker]

http://queenesque.com/FS4.html

 

their templates are available here for the protractor