psantang

@6balls I'm never going back to a 5.7. 6L has a real sports car feel and does feel better to ski than the 5.7L from my perspective. As mentioned above, 6L users regular unleaded and appears to be using the same amount of fuel per set as the 5.7L.

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Personally, I see very little wrong with the boat path. I have several months of experience using the latest SplashEye software, analyzing my own driving as well as others. It's a great product to help drivers become more skilled. One of the great benefits is that you can clearly see how each drivers style is different. The software provides so much detail and data, that the small nuances become much more evident. Note that the picture above is not the same as the video as can be seen by the different boat driving diagrams in each. Why I consider this a good boat path: 1. In the picture, 4 of the 6 buoys are within 6 cm (that's less than 2.5") 2. In the video, all buoys are within about 3" (best guess as the diagram has not been populated yet on the video) 3. The driver has rhythm. It's evident in both the picture and the video. Having a consistent rhythm is essential for the skier to know where the boat is. 4. The driver knows how to pick up the skier. His style is that he is always driving away from the skier and picks them up off the buoy going the opposite direction...again very consistent and typically results in a tight line for the skier. Some drivers like to have a very straight boat path and catch the skier as they load...typically, the boat gets pulled to the skier a bit and can feel a little soft off the ball to some skiers. Some may like that and some may not. Skiers have different styles as do drivers and is why some skiers have drivers they prefer. Driver consistency is very important to shortline. I'll take this driver over nearly any other I've skied behind for this drivers ability to be consistent. Back to the topic of GPS...this software has the ability to analyze the boat's position every meter of the course. When and if the technology is available, the data that SplashEye produces could be critical to how they program the GPS steering system to work. Think about it...what path do you want the boat to have? Perfectly straight line? Early counter? Late counter? Starting to sound a lot like ZO settings isn't it. It really is an impressive piece of software and I highly recommend you visit Donal at Nationals to learn more about. Regards, Paul