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@teammalibu I highly recommend it.  Unfortunately, I can't make it this year due to family obligations.

His latest approved record is 2670.62.  He beat that by 3 points (2673.70) as Fluid.  His LCQ Scores combined are 2720.18, a 47 point improvement.

@Mateo_Vargas It wasn't the end course video, but one on a dock at the corner of the course zoomed so you could see the entire course.  Yes, it was my first webcast.  I would not even consider trying that now.  I can only imagine all the negative comments on here and elsewhere. 

Yes, it has more information, but the default should be ALL scores for ALL events.  Its clumsy to get to the information 99% of the people want.

Practice at Swiss Pro.

Arrived yesterday.  Today was a work day getting everything set up for the webcast and getting the site in order.  Its going to be fun!

Not the cheapest, but these are the best:  https://wallyskier.com/shop%2Fbuy

6 hours ago, chaloux said:

I'm looking for any 196, any 200 except 18-19

@chaloux I'm curious.  What's your hangup with the 2018 200?  I completely get it on the 2019 200 built in TENN.  Not sure what your concerns would be with a 2018.

20 minutes ago, samstenzel said:

I am going to be in Houston for an internship this summer and hoping to find a place to ski. One of my teammates has some places in mind. I'm a freshman so I've got 3 solid years ahead of me on the team.

@samstenzel Ask your current and former teammates.  I'm your skiing source in the Houston area.  I'll catch up with you at the Pony Express tournament the end of the month.

Props for the new executive director doing what he can to get the sport out in front of the general public.

@Horton If you have an Apple TV device, you can download the Livestream App and search for Moomba.  That works best.  I have also been able to mirror my iPhone screen to the Apple TV and Roku, that's not full screen, but has a black bar all the way around the picture.

I guess those of us in the flyover states have to do our own math?

10 hours ago, ScottScott said:

Youtube veiws does make a difference to anyone posting videos on youtube. There are sposorships etc that come through that medium. I can't say how much they are taking advantage of those, but viewer-ship on their channel can very well help them. (I also don't know how this effects that, just pointing that out as a potential.)

Any embedding of the Youtube stream on another website such as BOS is still views for Youtube and everything is cool.  Now, what isn't cool would be someone capturing the YT stream and restreaming in on their own thru FB, YT or any other CDN.

On 10/4/2023 at 10:34 AM, Scott Russell said:

If there is anything potentially frustrating about it, it would be that in the short time I've been researching this stuff, it appears that NO older boat, no matter how good it is, or even if I could succeed it building something better than the newest boats, would ever be used in any sanctioned tournament. 

That's not exactly true.  Promo boats are getting hard to come by.  We had a tournament at our lake where we used home owners boats.  One of them was a 1998 SN that had been repowered with a 6.0L and Zero Off.  Several skiers at the tournament set PBs behind it.

@Horton I remember reading something about Regina's boatpath somewhere - I believe it may have been in some instagram comments.  I can't find it now.

Can anyone at AWSA or USAWaterski comment on why this video is showing up on the America's Boating Channel's YouTube page?  Is there some new partnership that we haven't heard about?

I'll check it out this spring.

Learning to jump. 

Yep, that's the one I used.  Not as elegant as the one designed for the 200, but it gets the job done for significantly less money.

Same thing happened to my 2010 with the 40A transmission a couple of years ago.  Ended up replacing it with the newer 80A transmission.

I was in the same situation back in 2010.  At the time, I found an older style jump seat from a 196 to drop between the love seat and the driver.  It didn't look as elegant, but it served its purpose.

I’ve seen a few Instagram photos, but nothing else.   If there’s no publicity, did it really happen?

I live on a lake that's 7.5ft deep with about 18 inches of silt below that.  Our lake has ski boats, wakeboard boats and surf boats.  The ski boats never churn up the silt on the bottom, but many of the surf boats leave a chocolate milk trail behind them from churning up the silt.  On the other lakes in the neighborhood that are 6ft deep, all of the surf boats churn up the silt.

Day 2 sans Jimi Hendrix has been uploaded.  Day 2 on YouTube

It looks like the Jimi Hendrix Star Spangled Banner is the offending song for Day 2.  I'll try to get it cleaned up ASAP.