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Matt Rini's for sure! Here right now. The first time I came to Matt's was the fall of 2015 and have been coming every spring and fall. My buddy that I go with has been going since 2011. We stay in an area called Storry lake, great central location to Matt and Disney. Lots of restaurants and stores close by. Have a big club house with lazy river, water slides, pool, volleyball courts.... this is our third time at Storry lake.

@"Keith Menard" sounds like the perfect vacation. Sound like we have the same type of vacation plans, Performace can cost just as much as Disney.

I think after 5 trip’s my wife is ready to run the course with Matt.

@keith Menard Say hi to Matt for me! So wish we were there right now!

LOL @skijay, that is why us Edmonton boys Ski with Rini!

I have a 68" 2013 Strada, that I may be looking to part ways with. I am 6' and 195 lbs. when I went to the Vapor went to a 67" a lot of people drop a size with the Vapor. I am n Edmonton.

Have you seen the 200 that Wizard has? It is a bare bones boat and a CB. It is more then what you are looking to spend but a great ski boat. Took me 2 years to find a boat, but I was looking for a Sport 200. There was none in Western Canada, so I was looking North America. Watched Ski it again and only inboards daily, I did eventually find a boat here in Alberta. Will keep an eye out and see if anything comes up. They are out there.

Need to add bigger range on the temp settings. Last week the water temp was 9C.

Like the app, just downloaded it today.

We had a Salus life jacket for our kids when they were little and they defiantly seemed comfortable in it. They also liked swimming in it once they got older. We did not have the one that @blagrata mentioned but I would buy that one if we were in that position again.

@OldboyII that a nice cool ski day! The skiing is done for us in Alberta this year, the white stuff came yesterday afternoon. Had to dig out the kid snow suits so they could go build snowmen. At least it is less then 20 days till we head to Flordia.

Just got a Blackett 1.5 full suit from REI and have skied in it twice now. I love it, felt warm and not restricted. I did ski one set in my dry suit but then got my wet suit and had to try it out. Don't know if I would go back to my dry suit. I am in Central Alberta and the water temp was 7-9C air temp was 18C or so. The forcast does not look all that good for the next few weeks and think the season is done. At night the temp is getting very close to freezing. Not to sure if I will be able to test it out any more.

Saw this as a YouTube add a few weeks back and thought it would be cool to use for skiing. Keep us posted if you get one

Look at Floe boat lifts, we have one for our boat and it is great. Easy to adjust to changing water levels and if needed is fairly easy to move with the wheel kit. On our Alberta lake I would say 60% of the lifts and docks are Floe.

 

www.floeintl.com

 

Hey all,

Was at the boat show this weekend and had a look at the new VTX and I must say that I was impressed. I feel that Malibu stepped up the fit and finish on this boat. Before this change. A 200V was waaayyy better looking. So the one thing I can't find anywhere yet are reviews on the wake skiing. Does anyone have any first hand experience with skiing behind this boat? I do have some good time behind a 200v just free skiing and we really like the Nautique. Any new feed back to compare these two now that the VTX has been updated?

We have a 16' Sea-Ray saville with a 135 merc on it and it s a struggle for me to get up but I do. I am 6' and 195 lbs. I do make sure that the tank is below 1/4 when I ski. I am just free skiing with it though, no course.

 

I have been skiing since I was 5 years old and skiing has always been that thing that can wipe all the stress that I am carrying away with the wake. After years of asking me to come to Flordia, my buddy finely got me to come down to Rini's school this fall and take my skiing to a new level. Skied the course for the first time and have my PB of 3 at 15. Can't remember what speed I was being pulled at? Ever since I have been wanting to get back on the water. Trying to figure out how I can make it back down this spring, this sinking CND is killing us.

Hi all, first time poster here. I just got my copy from Shuswap ski and board and super excited to read this. I have been a long time water skier but now wanting to ski the course. All the questions I have about ski settings will now be understood. This book is very well written, a big round of applause to @skijay for all the hard work put into this. Cool to see this book coming out of Alberta! hope to be able to meet one day.