I love water skiing but on our lake in North Idaho if I had a choice between massive surfboards turning the lake into a ocean and destroying the shoreline and no boats, i would have to go with no boats. A middle ground needs to be found. Operating 200 feet off the shoreline does near nothing to reduce the size of waves with the current generation of surf boats and makes other activities such as swimming, sailing, skiing or just cruising the lake unpleasant.