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Unless you want too live under the yoke of an expensive, overreaching, idiotic state government avoid CA. Lot's of ski sites and great weather but I'm no longer sure if it is worth the cost.

I'd like to think it is going to a nice home B)

Let's ask Mr Owl

In salt or brackish water WD-40 is your friend. Hit any and all fittings, mounts, bolts etc with a quick spray every now and then and you won't have nearly the corrosion/frozen bolts that you would normally encounter in these types of environments.

@wish isn't an O ring a gasket? You've got all the parts there so its pretty intuitive.

It's pretty intuitive. Remove the housing from the waterlines Remove the 3 screws that hold the cover on the housing Pull out the impeller noting which way the vanes are curved Put in the new impeller twisting it in so the vanes on the new impeller are the same direction of the original Clean the housing cover to remove any debris Put it all back together making sure you don't twist or tear the gasket Reinstall the housing on the waterlines The whole process should take less than 15-20 minutes. Best performed on a cool engine.

@texas6 my understanding is if it is present you got it and there isn't anything to do. But we are on a large uncontained river so even if wegot rid of it today there is nothing to say it won't be back tomorrow. If you have a private lake where you control the water coming in you might be able to eradicate it and keep if from coming back. Again my understanding is that it only happens in real extreme heat, not everyone is susceptible, (there are numerous instances of several people swimming together and only one gets infected) and even if the amoeba is present you are not necessarily going to be affected, look at the low occurrences of infection. So don't over-think this. All that being said when the water got real hot, the kids stayed on the beach.

@Texas6 I ski in a place that is hotter than sin in the summer and is near places where deaths from this parasite have been reported. Somewhere less than 6 deaths have occurred over a 20 year period and I believe all of them were in shallow, slow moving irrigation ditches. So needless to say, I'm always concerned when the water where I ski gets over 90. Long story short we had a need to start regularly testing the water where we ski due to a separate issue and the tests confirmed the presence of this amoeba. So I know the tests are out there. Contact a local lab and you should be good to go. Just remember just because the amoeba is present does not mean you can't use the water.

move the bunks forward or back an inch or two and you'll get fresh wood you'll be able to "screw" into.

Depending on where you're at in Fresno to the south there is a site in Lemoore and another south east of Tulare. The Tulare site will be at least an hour drive even if you're on the south end of Fresno.

1st a caveat, I'm a piss poor skier, usually one of the worst on the dock on any given day. So there is a whole lot of stuff I'm always doing wrong and all sorts of advice to "help" me and as you said, too many things to work on means you really don't work on anything, I've found he best thing is just before I drop off the swim step to announce what I'm working on for this pass. Such as, "I want to make sure I let the ski finish and I don't close off to the boat when I'm behind the wakes". This gives those who are in the coaching seat a specific aspect to look and and offer insight to. In the event they want to give advice on other parts of your skiing you can simply direct them back to the topic of the day, or let them give you tips on other parts of the run and table the initial area you wanted to work on to another set. It gives you control. This approach has also enabled me, the local hack, to help the better skiers. I might not be able to look a full pass and give constructive criticism, but I can easily tell one of the -38 guys where they are hooking up off the ball or what kind of angle they are generating on the off side vs their onside. YMMV.

Yet another grocery bagger, but it was a union gig so the pay was pretty sweet for a high school punk. It got me my first car. In college it was a little tougher duty working summers on a cattle ranch as a hand, then driving combines for a summer (don't ask what comes out of your nose on the days the AC fails) and finally, working in a local creamery. The creamery was the toughest physical gig as we were taking 640# blocks of cheese and turning them into 40# blocks. Think of doing 40# reps for 10 hours straight.

Isn't it time to come up with a Baller's wind index? We can't seem to be able to trust thermometers for temps so we probably can't trust an anemometer for velocity.

The wing is probably not really needed until 32 off. But with that being said there are a lot of skis that are coming out where the wing is integrated into the design and pulling it off can really affect the characteristics of the ski.

There's a home page??????

answering the original question I would suggest that take home pay in the neighborhood of at least $100K/year US should do it.

hard to beat costco

Once I'm up and skiing I tend to hold my breath at various points in the course. My kids used to call it the puffy cheeks syndrome.

The gobenment already has half a solution in place 1,000 x 300. As you can see there are 2 hangers on site but they aren't sequential. And the base has been closed so you might be able to get a deal. militarymuseum.org/MCASTustin.html

We saw how being public worked out so well for Mastercraft.

Gas guzzling horror show? Give me a fricken break. Figures don't lie but lairs figure.

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In my best Aussie Accent.... That's not a beer frig, this is a beer frig