Craig

bump.

bump, still for sale. We have moved and it is officially taking up garage space so please let me know if you are interested.

Thanks, guys! A quick bump, nothing makes a better Christmas present than a new boat in the driveway! :)

@jhughes We are still skiing, just with club boats. It doesn't make sense to just keep her cooped up in the garage forever, they need to run! We always enjoyed fifteenoff.com, Joel. I was sad to see it go.

@BraceMaker If you give Boat Mate trailers a call they can hook you up.

Price: SOLD Contact: Craig – craig (dot) r (dot) bradshaw (at) gmail (dot) com Location: Cumming, GA 30040 A turn-key skiers dream for a fraction of the cost of a new boat! The LT1 Corvette engine and Powerslot transmission combined with the coveted hull of the 91-94’ Mastercrafts provides a skiing experience that is as good as any new boat. Perfect Pass Star Gazer included with the latest version (no magnet timing). The trailer was professionally refurbished by Boat Mate trailers in 2009! We do not use her enough and don’t want to waste such a good boat sitting in the garage. So, we are looking for someone who will care for her just like we have. This boat was purchased a little beat up in 2009 and I have attempted to put her to bed each winter in a bit better shape than at the beginning of the season. I have complete documentation for all the work I have done that I am happy to share with the new seller. A lot of the work is also documented here: http://www.mastercraft.com/teamtalk/showthread.php?t=29296 Exterior: 9/10. Original decals removed, gelcoat wet-sanded, buffed and new decals from Bay Area Watersports installed in 2009. Some deeper gouges still remain from the previous owner. Teak refinished in 2009 and lightly sanded and oiled at the beginning of each year. Interior: 8/10. Heater (w/ y-tube for good idle heat). Perfect pass Stargazer version 2013 (no magnet timing). Added shaft access cover for access to shaft seal. Replaced engine box insulation. All vinyl cleaned and treated with 303 multiple times per year. Seam in drivers seat beginning to separate. Vinyl on motorbox showing age. Carpet in great condition. Dash in perfect condition. Drivetrain: 10/10. LT1 engine with ~1212 hrs; performed flawlessly since purchase. Powerslot transmission also flawless with no slipping or signs of any problems. Engine oil changed every 50 hrs and when winterized. Transmission fluid changed every season. Trailer: 10/10. Professionally refurbished in 2009! Added swing-away tongue, disk brakes, oil-bath hubs, LED lights (including reverse lights), and freshly powder coated frame. You will not find a better trailer on this vintage of boat! Not pictured extras: Slalom rope and handle, original Mastercraft speedo gage (where PP is now installed), seat cushion floatation device, fire extinguisher, spare impeller, and fresh bottle of teak oil. 1994 Mastercraft Prostar 190 - LT1 - Powerslot - Refurbished Trailer

More important than finding what jobs are available is finding a career path that you enjoy, first. Once you know what you enjoy, then see how it fits into the ski industry. If you do not enjoy accounting, don't do it because you think it is your ticket into the ski industry. That kind of attitude is a recipe for a job you don't really like connected to a sport you do which makes it very difficult to enjoy the sport. Next, find some experience. Do everything you can to find an internship within the industry as soon as you can. Nothing will ring out what you like and don't like better than experience. Call boat OEM's, ski OEM's, distrubutors, retailers, even boat dealers. Get in there and check it out from the inside.

My wife had a good one over the weekend. I seem to have a couple a year.

I have skied behind a 93 PS 190 that has a carburetor and has the ZBox. I am not a PP expert, but I don't think the mechanical throttle version of PP cares if the engine has a carburetor or is fuel injected.

Strada front and RTP for me. I run the Strada tight lower, light tension upper. For me, the most critical connection is between the ball of my foot and the ski, the rest is ancillary. Running the top laces tight seems to make the system less safe and the bottom laces seem to have less influence on how easily the boot releases. Even with all the laces loose my liner comes out with my foot. With everything secured I can step out of the ski on the platform with less effort than it took to get out of my old Wiley's with a better connection to the ski.

@bfreeski I have had this exact injury but slightly less severe (hairline fracture with no separation). I was in a walking boot for about 8 weeks, a brace for 4 weeks, and skied with a taped ankle for about 8 weeks (injured in May back on the water in August), if I recall correctly. I feel your pain, and hope the recovery goes well. Don't skimp on the rehab, that is critically important!

check out http://www.perfski.com/, an HO dealer among others. Some of the best service out there as well.

A four blade prop has one more blade than a three blade prop. ;-)

Not to always challenge thread titles...but that is definitely not 26. I got about 16 seconds so it looks like 36. Wake looks nice, I spend a lot of time at 36-15 and I generally get a lot of air behind the 197.

I had a similar injury several years back. I did what @BCM did and echo what @mwetskier said. If you go this route, get at PT to teach you how to tape it correctly, and add a layer of duck tape (not HVAC duct tape). I was on the water about 6 weeks after the injury and taped before skiing for about 8 weeks after I started skiing again (with lots of rehab), but YMMV.

@horton wow.

I'm assuming the thread title is a mistake and the first picture is also 36mph?

Anyone want to suggest changing wing angle just to round out the recommendations? <\sillycomment>

@rodltg2 I hear you, and can relate as a fellow 15-28 hacker. My wife and I are traveling to our first tournament this weekend since we were on our college team. After we finished with the college team we didn't see a lot of reason to go to tourneys. They were often far away, expensive (we were both still in grad school), and we were not very good. So we were content to plop our boat in the lake and ski our course with our boat with our friends. Last year we joined a club that hosted tournaments and skied in our clubs tournaments, our first since collegiate tournaments. It was not what we expected and we really enjoyed it. We have since had to move, changed clubs, but will be traveling to a few tournaments this year. The reason we enjoyed the tournaments last year are for many reasons described by others above. I was never sold on the idea of competing against myself, you can do that in practice. So the idea of going to 'compete' when I knew there was no real competition (I was going to get my butt kicked) AND I had to PAY for it? Ridiculous. BUT, as I said, I was pleasantly surprised and hopefully you will be too. You will meet people who are not that interested in talking to you because of your skill level, ignore them. You will meet people who have been friends since they were 5 and grew up competing against each other, pick their brain. Get some people and go out for beers when things are over. I don't know if we are going to become national competitors or want to enter a tournament every weekend but we are going to give it a go and see what happens. I think more people should. Long-story short, stay positive, keep an open mind, let the buoys fall where they may. You may be as pleasantly surprised, as I was, and want to keep going back just to get beat by the other guys opening pass.

That is a completely rebuilt boat and looks very nice from the few pictures I saw. My guess is the owner spent 100's of hours working on it, kind of wants to sell it, but has a panic attack every time he thinks about it pulling out of the driveway. As @kmenard suggested, wife in sweatpants not helping...

@eleeski Good to know, that makes sense.

2003ish KD CR7 and 2006 Connelly F1. I don't recall seeing any evidence of a Nylon block in either ski. JB Weld, re-drilling, and putting fresh inserts is helpful. Another trick is cutting the top off 6-8 zip ties and stuffing in the insert hole and setting the insert in the middle of this bundle. Add some JB Weld to the bundle and you have a rock solid fix. I know a few jumpers who do this to their binding screws as a way of keeping them from vibrating loose.

Just steal this one: http://www.ski-it-again.com/php/skiitagain.php?topic=Search&category=Comp_Boat&postid=20248

All the arguments for composites are comparing aluminum to carbon fiber. The comparison is fiberglass vs. aluminum. Regardless of if the information posted on the companies website is true or not it is an interesting idea. The idea is to make a lighter boat, add weight when you need it, remove it when you don't. I, for one, would certainly like to ride around in one. From a business perspective, it seems like a hard sell. A fabricator/welder is going to get paid a heck of a lot more than the guys making $8/hr slapping fiberglass in molds at MC/CC/Malibu. Considering these boats are already basically hand-made I would think the labor would be a big concern.

http://www.pavati.com/wakeboarding_boat/models/ 2800 lbs for a 24' wakeboard boat. Considering a 24' x-star has a list weight of 5400lbs, and a PS 197 is 3300lbs, I would say that is real light.