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Ocean Pond… It’s a nice lake to ski on but the course is no longer there I believe. No reason why one could not ski there.

I've been looking on line at these suits. I have a Blacktec that I like quite a bit. But I'm always interested in other suits as well. In all the photos of the Syndicate Dry Flex, the bottom of the right sleeve is blue, and the left bottom sleeve is black. Is this anything other than style? I'm beyond needing color coding to tell my right from my left. ;-)

Assuming a good fit, how dry are these suits?

@swbca I believe that was Brooke Baldwin if we’re thinking of the same incident. Very scary.

@SlalomSteve I really like these gloves. I’m pretty sure I have an old pair of Med I could send you. Message me your address.

@dvskier thanks!! If someone has a contact with TWBC they should tell them they still have the old dates posted.

Would someone kindly confirm the dates for the Malibu Open? I’ve found conflicting information. Thanks.

Note to Troy, announcing lake 1: I can only speak for myself of course, but what you claimed everyone would just love… slalom skiing under a dome… I find appalling. It would be almost the last thing I would want to see. Only tournament cable skiing in place of tow boats would be more unappealing. But that’s just me.

@ETskier thanks for that! We’re getting pretty serious about it. Still need to be sure it’s sufficient for our horse trailer. I know it will just fine for our Prostar.

@eleeski thanks for that explanation. It’s not a simple subject, at least for the layman. So many variables!

I don’t know how applicable this is to ski boat performance and the particular engines currently used, but I am researching new trucks as our current F350 diesel dually is more truck than we need, bought when we were trailering horses from FL to PA and MD and back through the mountainous Shenandoah Valley several times a year. It’s overkill for hauling our Prostar back and forth to the lake over flat FL countryside and expensive to run and maintain. I’m looking at the F150 with the 3.5L V6 EcoBoost engine. I came across an article in Car and Driver where they tested this truck and motor with both 87 octane and 93 octane. Here’s a couple excerpts of their results: “With the fuel tank filled with 93 octane gasoline, the Ford F150 turned in a 0 to 60 run in 5.3 seconds. It is quite an impressive achievement when you consider that the Ford F150 weighs nearly three tons (5,594-pounds). When the C&D crew switched over to 87 octane fuel performance dipped noticeably. The Ford F150 lost 20 horsepower and half-a-second on the track.” “Here is a list of the results: 87 octane 0 to 60 run: 5.9-seconds 93 octane 0 to 60 run: 5.3-seconds 87 octane quarter-mile time: 14.5 seconds 93 octane quarter-mile time: 14 seconds Speed trap findings: 4 mph difference 87 octane shows 1.9 psi dip in turbo response So what do the findings mean? You don't have to be an engineer to see that 93 octane gasoline outperforms 87 gasoline. To show this more clearly C&D performed a real-world test that proved premium gasoline performs better. They took the vehicles used for testing to an interstate where they set the cruise control to 75 mph. Cruising at 75, the testers found that premium (93 octane) gasoline returned 17.6 mpg. When they changed the fuel to regular (87 octane), they found that the Ford F150 with the EcoBoost powerplant achieved 17 mpg, a difference of .6 mpg.” Again, I have no idea what this means as applied to ski boats and slalom skiing. But in the original thread on the subject of octane, many insisted octane only affects the tendency for an engine to knock, and had no bearing on the engine’s power or performance. But the Car and Driver testers seem to arrive at a different conclusion for what that is worth.

@BraceMaker actually I believe it was a post on BOS pointing to a ski video clip on Instagram Reels that I followed, unless it was on a FB water ski forum. Either way, I had no idea what Reels was or that it even existed prior, much less the predominant content. I don’t use Instagram. It’s not my cup of tea, frankly.

@ktm300 you forgot to mention we also now have Instagram, wildly popular with both young and very young people and owned by that sanctimonious and self-righteous pig, Mark Zuckerberg. When you refer to the sexualization of school children, a quick scroll through Instagram "Reels" will confirm any decent person's worst fears. The vast majority of the content appears to be little more than porn actress auditions for underage or barely legal age girls, often gyrating in an overtly sexual manner to blatantly pornographic rap lyrics, flashing their butts, breasts, underwear, or mimicking oral sex and various sex acts. What a sorry state society has decayed into.

The only place we buy ski gear. Plus, it’s a beautiful shop!

@Ed_Johnson let me know if you ever want to free ski on the lake to familiarize yourself with it.

@Ed_Johnson at present the only slalom course on Lake Weir is in serious need of repair and there are currently no in tact full time courses on the lake. There is another course a friend has set up, but he only visits the lake as his work schedule allows and he removes the buoys when he leaves.

With the high quality of the co-announcers the TWBC features… Matt Rini, Cory Vaughn etc…. I’d like to see more slo-mo replay and stop action with these experts using a telestrator to analyze and illustrate critical aspects of the skiers run… what worked both for them and against them. The time between passes allows plenty of time for this and it would make the subtleties of the sport more understandable to a wider audience aside from filling the down time more productively than the largely fluff interviews.

@dbaconaz if your carpet gets too hot to walk on in AZ, my guess is that Deckadence would be considerably worse. Our charcoal grey carpet in FL — same exact climate as I described above where our friend has to lay towels over his Deckadence — has never ever been even remotely close to being too hot to walk on, even in mid summer. But then, we don’t have 120° heat! Yowzer!

As I recall we paid $700 for the MC factory carpet in our ‘20 Prostar. Re: Deckadence, it’s great stuff but just within the past week I asked a friend on the lake we ski on about the Deckadence in his Prostar, specifically how hot it gets in direct sun. He acknowledged it gets hot, enough so that he has to lay towels down on top of it it gets so hot. So that’s a consideration depending on where you live. (We’re in Fl).

This won’t help you exactly, other than perhaps giving you a starting point. But I was curious that Radar provides S/D, L/S settings for the Vapor starting in 2018 and through 2021. But not for the Senate. Maybe Brooks can explain why.

Personally speaking, there is absolutely nothing that would appeal to me less than watching or participating in cable skiing. Ski boats are an integral part of the package. But that’s just me.

@Fastguy888 I have skied behind a couple of PP boats that would accelerate past the set speed by a few mph, before backing off to the set speed. I don’t have enough experience with them to know if this is normal for PP. My ZO boat however accelerates to the set speed and locks on without going faster by more than 1/10 mph.

@klindy thanks for the clarification. @Ed_Johnson agreed. To the best of my recollection, JT was the only one who mentioned it (on camera at least) and as you point out, if someone can run three 41s in two days the set up and boat speed must have been adequate.

@klindy thanks for the explanation. So basically, the speed was within tolerance, but barely, so no re-ride. Thanks again.

I have a question: In two different interviews following two different runs, John Travers said the boat was too slow getting up to speed which affected his gate cut in one instance as I recall and maybe both. In any case, with such tight tolerances for speeds, timing and boat path, why wasn’t he given re-rides? Just curious.