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Please don’t use those cheap arse plunger fake lakes on your boat. For those of us that have used the bucket method you quickly realize the boat needs more water than a hose gpm can provide. Plum it in after the water filter.

Located in Balsam Lake, WI or could meet you near our home in Maple Grove, MN 2017 Radar Vapor Pro Build Waterski 69.5 https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/ank/spo/d/osceola-2017-radar-vapor-pro-build/7132340824.html 2016 Radar Vapor Graphite Waterski 69" https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/ank/spo/d/2016-radar-vapor-graphite-waterski-69/7122980038.html

Looks like fun. I am an early morning skier so most time I just go for a run, bike, or ride my MX bike at a track. Yours look like more fun

Spraymakers podcast is the best. I listen to them over and over and over again. Body position and line progression episodes have be me skiing better this year. I am getting hypnotized by Chris and Trent.

Cool man.

Had one. Loved it. Beast! If you don’t need Zero Off it is tough to beat this hull/engine/trans combo

Every time I have called and needed to talk to someone about skis I got a direct line to Brooks. No voicemail or can I call you back. He was patient and talked about my skiing and the ski I needed or tweak I needed to make. Amazing.

I installed the upgrade yesterday and skied it. Love the new + setting. Super easy install once I built the harness

This is a great podcast series. During this quarantine I have been listening while running and walking. Over and Over again. Hoping it sinks in!

55F last weekend. Break out the shorty wetsuits! Ice out was April 3 - NW Wisconsin

It would be cool to link to other ski partners like some of the fitness apps out there like fitnesspal, Strava, etc.

I thought of another bonehead move on my part. It was the first year, 2012, we bought our lake place and at the time we had an MC X9 2002. I was spending a lot of time on the MC site since purchasing our boat in 2009. There was always a lot of talk about the fuel pumps of this era and I had a DIY kit ready at all times. So we just finished up a session of getting a couple family of kids leaning to ski and wakeboard and I parked the boat on the dock to dry it out in the sun. Well all our guests and their kids were using the boat as a swim raft and jumping in and out while I was up at the cabin grilling food. After dinner we decided to go out for a few surf sets. Fill the ballast and turn the key and it cranks but does not fire. Keyed it on a couple of times and didn’t hear the pump. Dang it, must be my time! So I got my kit and changed the fuel pump in about 30 minutes. Everyone was impressed until the boat didn’t start after this. I was deflated and got my multimeter out and realized I had no power to the pump. Then I started troubleshooting the first thing - kill switch. Yup. It was laying in the floor of the boat. One of those kids must have pulled it. That was the last time I allowed kids to play in the boat.

Liking the app so far. Any plans to be able to link users and be able to share performance?

They are great. It is based out of the MasterCraft dealer in the Minneapolis area (my boat dealer) Midwest Watersports.

Ya, eh. He has it dialed in wit 1/4 tank petrol and weight in da nose.

We had ice out on our lake cabin this year on April 3. I put my docks in during a snow storm that evening and me and we skied on April 5th. We took our second set on April 11 and that evening we drained our engines and prepared for the storm before we headed back to the twin cities for Easter. We only use skilled drivers and 3/2 neoprene wet suits. We don’t spend much time in the water. I have a live camera at the lake and watch the wet snow build on the lifts and then made an unplanned trip back to the lake to brush them off. Canopies are not designed for this kind of loading. I know it doesn’t look like much but there was 2” of heavy we snow and ice on the canopies. I had to clear them a couple more time before dark.

When we were shopping my dealer (MC) knew we were course skiers and he knew I was shopping both brands. What I was told is that MC design intent was to have an efficient hull (not plow water) and the best wakes at all speeds. Maybe there were some trades that were made to the handling. Maybe for the ultra pros there is a difference but we are super happy with our ProStar in every way and it is almost 99% used in the course.

Making the switch this season from Vapor to Senate. Hoping for improved results.

@disland Sounds like Rogue Fitness website. They sell some silly stuff for crazy prices.

@BraceMaker oh that is a good one. Prop check is not standard. LOL

In my excitement last weekend with ice out on Friday morning I was eager to get my docks, lifts, and boats in the water ASAP. Got to the cabin late on Friday after work and it was snowing hard. I didn’t care. Put my waders on and out the docks and boat lifts in. I was feeling pretty good. Got down to 12F over night but after my morning coffee at 6am I decided to put my pontoon in the water as I use it to install my traps on both boat lifts. Drop it in at the launch and no water coming from the tell tale on the outboard. Oh no. Only rain it for about 1 minute. Brought it back to the cabin and shot compressed air into the tell tale and hit the casting with the heat gun. Back to the launch and still no water circulated. Gave up and decided to drop it at my marina for service. The obvious happened, bad impeller, but it failed in the most unusual way and split at the hub/key way. The veins must have had enough moisture to momentarily freeze to the sides and it spun at first ignition. Dummy move to be impatient. If I would have waited 6hrs, 12pm it would have been fine. Bonehead move!

Did this happen from your Bimini snafu? Sometimes I am delighted by MC engineering and other times I am WTF. The Bimini should fail and not the windshield too. Nobody tested or engineered it to. I have the tower on my boat and I can’t deploy or collapse the Bimini without collapsing the dam tower. So it stays deployed all season. Wow. I hope somebody got there butt kicked at work for that one. Unacceptable.

@gsm_peter I am not in the Nordics for skiing but rather snowmobiling. If this pandemic let’s up I might be back in mid May up in Riksgrensen. I might think about skiing too. Thanks for the offer.

Thanks for doing this for the sport. Any idea when the iOS app will be ready versus the web portal