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Check a few independent insurance brokers in your area for commercial vacant land, unless you live there and run a ski school business. It might work for you as well

We have the LLC carry commercial insurance. It is about $700 per year for vacant land. I discussed in depth with our agent who knows there is a lake used for skiing/recreation on the land, and he assures me that if someone drowns, invited as a guest or not, we will be covered. If we run someone over with the boat, we have personal umbrellas to cover individual acts of negligence.  My biggest concern is someone going out there without an owner, trespassing, fishing, or whatever, and getting hurt or drowning. The LLC can get sued, but in theory, the partners are isolated, per Ohio law.  I file a 1065 and issue K1's to the owners, as we do rent some of the ground to a farmer, and have various expenses, like dye, insurance, etc. The taxes can get passed directly to te shareholders, and the entity is a passive real estate investment, so no real benefit to the expenses, other than deduct from sale price if and when we sell. Just one way to look at it.

We formed a LLC to own the land and insure the land/water for $2mill. Also, each owner carries an umbrella policy. The club and everyone that skis there are competitive members of AWSA. Everyone signs the standard waiver to ski. The AWSA insurance is pretty limited and requires a lot of paperwork to record skiing.

Overtone grommets don't look the same anymore. Look like everyone elses now. The solid grommets are the best.

Lkb Sometimes moving the back boot back helps the onside turn. If you are running over the rope and pulling the handle in high at end of onside turn, push fin forward. If the ski is out in front of you and double pull, move it back. If tip is popping up take some depth out. If you aren't breaking free of the boat in pre turn , shorten the fin. A lot of possibilities.

 Do they make a ski for ZO? JUST FREAKING KIDDING!

 Did you try your back binding back one hole? Is the tip coming up on your onside/heelside? Describe why it isnt turning. If the offside/toeside is killer, it usually comes at a cost on the other side. But there are some tweaks to get it moving better on your onside.

The one guy I am talking about is a senior judge, was skiing in at least 10 tournaments a season, including a zillion nationals. He pretty much could run 35 on all 10 different skis that he has in his garage, owns his own lake, BUT does not have a boat with ZO. His dropped a full pass behind ZO and didn't make his opening 28 off pass in one of the first tournaments skiing ZO. The other guy is a BIg Dawg skier who has been In top 5 at Nationals quite a few times. He trains with guy #1 behind PP. I dint think he has run a 38 behind ZO in a tournament, when he was routinely mid 39. Is ZO bad? I don't think so. Not being readily available is the bad part. I guess if your baseball team played with titanium bats and then went to the state tournament and only wood bats could be used at the last minute, and the other team used wood bats all season, well, you get the picture....

True about USWSA, I told him he is wasting his time. About the only way to get it changed is don't buy it.

Whiner!! ZO will make her a better skier. Those other inferior systems have created a bunch of sissies. Of course if you read my posts on this subject, you know I am being completely sarcastic. I know a few long-time National skiers that have stopped going to tournaments, after like 40 years of Nationals. They have written several letters to USAWSA pleading to not go in this direction. That are few exceptions to skiers losing several buoys or a complete pass when NOT training behind ZO and then trying it in a tournament.

Innie and outie? Instep (offside/toeside) and outside (onside/Heal side) of front foot?

No biggie, comments are cheap, pictures would have been tragic....http://www.ballofspray.com/vanillaforum/js/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-tongue-out.gif

Not sure about the stacking. Depends on the build of the skier. I have a 6'4"'ski partner that only gets his handle "in" by accident he is just butt strong and puts huge leverage on the line. Maybe that is farmstyle?

No matter how you rotate and turn, the real battle that gets won or lost 6 times every pass is the war behind the boat. Every body type has advantages and disadvantages in this battle, whether you need to be opened or closed to the boat, bent knees squatting, or locked out, but agree that the elbows in and handle down to your center of gravity is the biggest key to winning. My cousin told me to keep the handle low about 32 years ago, no charge. As far as bending the knees, years of basketball and baseball pretty much have ruled that out at 51 years of age. Just get it done however I can.

At 225 lbs I had no trouble on any of the 68" skis, and they ALL out-skied the 69" skis that I tried. Tried a Goode 9700, D3, Monza, Senate C, also tried a 68.5 A1 early this year. I think the 68"Z1 I am on right now has some promise, if I can get it to turn faster. My theroy, right or wrong, is that the long boards are just "grossed" up numbers by the manufacturers and do not perform nearly as well as the 68" or 67" models. If you can find a 67" Senate C, that might be a good low-priced alternative.  I liked my 69" C, but found 32 and 35 off easier on my 67" (really a 68") Goode 9500. The 69" was just too big for my style (if I have one).Â

Take some tip out (shorter fin) or add depth. Move bindings back a hole.

WD40 spray usually cleans about anything too. I would definetley test the hair spray to make sure it doesn't mess up the vinyl, the alcohol in the spray is what cuts the ink, the other crap in the spray could react and take off the sheen. Give us some feedback on what worked. Â Thanks

 Rubbing alcohol works pretty good on ink, let it soak a little. Fantastic also seems to work on an lot of different stuff, let it soak a little too. Put Formula 303 on it to seal it back up.

My friend just bought a 2007 SN with ZO and now part of our rotation. I drive a '99 and two other '01 SN's all with gt40 and PP, so My brain is in tune with that, but the ZO is entirely different feel driving and skiing. not saying it is bad, but different enough to throw timing off when all I have skied behind for the last 10 years is PP. I am just getting back to skiing after some time off so it hasn't been that big to adjust, I suck behind any boat right now. But, i still feel the acceleration of ZO. I have tried a few different settings and have been using C1.

I spent a ton of time driving PP and when I when I drove my first ZO boat, I couldnt beleive how much forward and back I felt in the boat. I never feel this is PP. Me and the guy I ski with both go 240+, and I pull a lot harder than he does, so I can only imagine what the boat is doing for me.  It just feels like a very heavy-handed hot sticker from days gone by. Obviously, it is much easier to say "pull lighter" on the line than actually going out there and doing it. I do know that i backed my gate way down and felt a much friendlier hookup off one ball. This works @ 28 off, but when I ski 35 off or 38, (back in the day), my pull through the gates was up there pretty high on the effort chart. No room for lighter work there. At least the way that I ski.

Can't beat that. I do the same.

 Now I know where the real bubble buoy concept hatched!!!

Does anyone know who is making the power vest for Goode? I like the look of the jacket but wouldn't want the straps. My straight-line ultra vest is getting worn out. I tried the HO Candidate I think it was called, and liked that but way too short and exposed lower ribs. The Goode vest looks longer in front.

Popsickles or bikinis, it's a toss up......

 TW, you obviously have too much time on your hands, but I like it none the less! That looks like a wide ride paddle, anyone have specs??