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Quick question, you said "stays in gear" . Are you pressing the button after it is already in gear? It will not take it out of gear, should only give you the ability to keep it in neutral while you rev up the engine with the throttle handle, starting in the Neutral position. The only time I ever use it is to rev up the engine a little with Diacom plugged in while sitting at the dock. I can't think of any other use for it.

I am familiar with the '92 CS, but not sure what changes took place between then and 2000. the '92 was actually a pretty good hull. It was the first time that a "backwards" step was used to move water around under a ski boat. In this iteration it was a v at the rear of the boat. This is similar technology that the Nautique uses on the 200 and Ski. The wake was actually really nice, but the backwards step caused quite a bit of drag, as do the new hulls. Back in 92 the strongest motor available was the PCM pro boss 351 ford at 285 hp, which was adequate, but not really strong enough in my opinion. My boat was actually one of only two to successfully pull regionals that year. When I received the boat I thought the engine was really weak. PCM sent me a "better" 285 and I swapped it out. The boat was pretty nice with that engine. Due to the takeover by Genmar at the time and all of the wally things they did to the boat while being built in the Wellcraft plant in Avon Park, I also had to a lot of other tweaking to make it a capable boat (replace the 60mph speedos, section the bottom of the speedo pickups and reposition and mount them lower to get them into cleaner water. (that was before speed control). Quite a few other tweaks to steering and hull and mine was a really good boat. Unfortunately Supreme sent a boat with a green Mercruiser 260 inboard to the boat test in '93 and it failed the acceleration test. (No big surprise to me). So the 92 was the last year Supreme was an AWSA towboat.

@chrislandy I'm not following your "outboard prop is limited in size" statement. Large outboards can accommodate up to 16" diameter props and pitches up to 36". A 450hp 6.2Nautique standard prop is a 12.5" (diameter) x 15.5" (pitch). Seems to me the opposite of what you said.

I actually like red, white, and blue, but also like the grey Malibu version of Seadek much better, like in THIS one.

Two speed transmission as well.

+1 on @BraceMaker's advice.

@thager Never looked quite right after that:)

There were some issues in the first year of the innerliner not getting a good bond to the hull in the area behind the engine to the transom between the stringers. If water would find its way in there and the boat was subjected to below freezing temp's there could be expansion and cracking. When I found this void I would drill a hole in the innerliner and pump the area full of silicone. It actually made them a little quieter too!

'86 was the first year for fiberglass stringers in Supreme's.

Yes, two 50 Lb rubber coated dumbbells under observer seat if only driver is in boat. leaning boats do not drive or ski well.

I am in favor of developing a replacement or rolling back to the previous site. The current site is unacceptable.

Put a fuel pressure gage on the fuel rail and observe pressure while you are having the issue. If it is dropping, it is fuel delivery related. Good place to start. Did you change high and low pressure pump? Did you change both filters?

@Horton I absolutely love the system, but I disagree. After using my system for well over 1,000 passes over the last year my best estimate is at least 50 missed or partial missed passes. The reliability improved significantly after I switched from using my cell phone as a hot spot for the rover to a sim card in the rover, but there were still missed passes. Some were certainly wifi issues at the base station at my dock, some were poor gps reception in the boat, some ended up unexplained, as sometimes it is hard to troubleshoot while you are driving. Many of those "other" causes were likely an unstable voltage source if the boat was shut off at the end of the pass to talk to the skier. Those were improved by using a portable power bank to stabilize voltage. James made a software improvement mid-year that helped isolate if the correction signal from the server was over 60 seconds old with a green indicator and number of seconds old the correction signal was. I think most of the other issues are quality of gps signal at the pylon antenna. I was using the small antenna all year and James recommends the larger antenna for important use, i.e. record tournaments. My larger antenna was delivered today, but it is winter here and I won't know if that completely eliminates missed passes for me for a couple months. Once again I think the system is amazing, but if rules are being developed, the boat crew needs to know what to do if rerides are dictated by out of tolerance passes, and there is no data to tell if it is out of tolerance. Certainly even if the system is functioning flawlessly, a loss in wifi signal to the base for over a minute would cause a missed pass. Does anyone have an ISP that never has a glitch? At my lake, there are lots of ISP glitches, as I am sure is the case at many remote lakes. My recommendation would be no data = no reride.

If re-rides are being discussed for red screens, another question needs to be discussed. What about a pass missed by Sure-Path. If the whole pass isn't recorded, do we re-ride that pass. It happens and this should be in the rules discussion as well.

Sure Path this year bumped it way over that mark, but lots of other things like side-by sides, golf cart, paddle boards, drones, etc.

I first saw these at Okeheelee and quickly found a source and bought some. Since then I have placed a ton of them on my main dock, gas dock, and jump starting dock. They are the best I have ever seen. The key is to ensure they are long enough to be lower and higher than the absolute maximum the the rub rail could go from the massive wake barge wakes. Link As has already been mentioned I would stay away from anything horizontal as those will rub on your gel coat and pop off graphics. There is nothing wrong with mooring whips as well, but I would also have these on the dock for those times when a monster wake comes in before you can get the boat away from the dock and hooked up.

@disland Yes, but I found it is much more reliable to use a cell data card. It was also a pain to have my cell dedicated to the boat, especially when someone else was driving. Here is a tip that may save you a lot of time. After deciding to switch from cell wifi hotspot to dedicated data, I added a line to my AT&T account for the rover. (AT&T is the only carrier that has service at my lake.). After several weeks and countless hours with AT&T tech support, I gave up on AT&T as they were never able to get their sim cards (tried several) to work in the rover. James suggested that I try Red Pocket mobile. With Red Pocket, their card worked perfectly with no hassle, simple online setup, and cheaper than an additional line on my AT&T account. ($15.49/mo including taxes for more data than you ever need with Sure Path and an extra phone line to boot) The really funny part is they resell service on the AT&T towers.

We are east/west. Makes for constant glass with the soutwest prevailing winds and the jumpers LOVE it. For the half hour or so in the evening that it is really bad (driving and skiing), I just spin at the east end and ride back to the west without skiing. Some of my skiers prefer to ski both ways with the sun glare, but my Sure-Path numbers suffer along with my eyes:)

Even the hoses that are supposed to be certified for 10% alchohol eventually deteriorate, swell, crack, etc. If you are running an older boat with hoses (and or tanks) that are not designed for the alcohol, you have a very dangerous situation. Inspect frequently, and preferably replace to be safe!

@LK_skier You are low on coolant. You should add before the reservoir is empty, it is sometimes hard to purge all of the air out of that system once it gets in, which can cause overheats

Just looked at the picture, looks like a bad repair coming off to me.

If the hull identification number has a G in it, chine lock tendencies could be an issue. (that was the G mold) Fiberglass stringers started in 86. If you run the boat and it porpoises a little bit at wide open throttle, it is probably not one of the chine walkers. If it leans to the driver side and doesn't porpoise, pass on it. The chine lock can be fixed / reduced by taking hook off of the port side.

Put a fuel pressure gauge on the fuel rail and monitor fuel pressure when it loses power. That will give you the direction you need to go. If pressure drops when while the issue is occuring, look at fuel pumps, obstruction at fuel pickup in tank, anti-siphon valve, fuel tank vent obstruction, fuel hose deteriorated from alcohol in fuel, etc. If fuel pressure is constant, check for spark issues, wires, one of the coils, etc. Any check engine lights or indicators? If you don't want to buy one, you should be able to borrow a fuel pressue gauge from Autozone if there is one in your area. What year, does it have cats in the manifolds? If fuel pressure is not the issue, Diacom will give you a missfire count.

Water was 47, low temps forecast for next week, last set at Lodi for the year.

@RGilmore I don't know:)