UWSkier

What's your use case? If towing, yes, Evolution can't be beat (I have one too and it's awesome). But it's a lousy cover for keeping UV off of your colored gelcoat. Covers that cover your boat down to the chines are great at keeping the boat looking new but are awful on the trailer.

How they ever marketed that against the VTX as a crossover is beyond me. Are you sure they remembered to empty the ballast before that photo was taken? Yikes! For comparison, here's a current-gen VTX wake at 30 MPH, which is really before the wake really starts getting good (32+).

@Stefan Nate has a lisfranc injury and is in a walking boot for several weeks.

Holy Pay-it-forward! We just used our OffCourse again this morning since we have some tournaments coming up. Love that thing.

Get to the end and feel like you barely did any work. Rare for me when there are buoys involved, but it's happened a couple times.

When I bought my boat, it was in Portland. I was in Arizona. I used airline miles to fly up, test drive, and buy it with cash on the spot. I even rented a pickup and brought my draw bar with me in my carry-on luggage (was interesting explaining that one to TSA). Boat got stored at a friend's place until the shipper could pick it up. Only issue I ran into was getting the guy to locate and send me the trailer title. I wrote up a sales contract for the transaction for the outstanding items such as the trailer title so I wasn't terribly worried that it was delayed a bit. I highly recommend asking for very detailed photos, then flying/driving to see it in person yourself or having someone you know well check it out for you.

I have a ski buddy with the 19 Skier. Great wake. Have only skied it on open water but it skis well and will rip your freaking arms off on holeshots.

What @Mastercrafter said. I did that on my dad's Malibu a couple years ago and it turned out great.

@MDB1056 Rope changeover error in 110' of water. Handle pulled the whole works down to the depths of Davey Jones' locker. :(

I have spares but they're brands and styles I no longer use and are a bit worn out. If I can avoid losing this new combination, it will be my spare someday. :)

Unfortunately I lost my rope and handle on Monday. S-Lines and In-Tow were able to get me set up with new gear in just a few days time and get me back on the water quickly. Happy customer for life!

@ScottScott will the dash unit/gauge not accept an input from a normal float sensor? I'd expect that the current sender measures capacitance, then converts that to a common signal that can be deciphered by a standard dash, no?

Can you replace the sender with a float style? One of the benefits of my boat rebuild last year was an opportunity to index my fuel gauge against tank levels. I went to the gas station and started filling the boat in 5 gallon increments, then turning on the key to get a read. The logic on this gauge is that it will read the level on key-up but then it goes into averaging mode so sloshing doesn't effect the gauge. It's a 35 gallon tank in my Response. These are my gauge references. Somewhere between 10 and 15 gallons was where my needle moved off E. I keep them in a google photos album called "FUEL LEVELS" so it's always easy to find.

They're old at this time, and few and far between, but if you can find a Malibu Sunsetter LXi (2004 or older), you will have the perfect boat for your use case from what I can glean. Prostar will be an excellent ski boat, but not a very good family boat.

In the future, back out your screws slowly. If you notice the insert backing out, reach between the ski top and the plate with a needle nose pliers and grab the insert, then try backing out the screw. I've had this happen before with a tricky insert and that method worked for me to get it loose. Once I had the plate off, I took out the insert, put some JB weld on it, build an "insert setter" tool which is what @bojans describes above, and put it back in place. It's still holding up well for its new owner.

The one circle I can't seem to square is where shoulders and chest should be pointed and effect on arms. I often hear you mention that your chest should be facing the pylon but that your inside arm should be bent with elbow down and outside arm straight. If your chest was facing the pylon, wouldn't both of your arms just be straight all the time?

How to train and adjust for variables. Like how to ski on the bungee cord ropes that seem popular at tournaments when you are used to a standard feel.

Are you keeping the intake air cool enough? I know for a few years the Malibu TXi with the Crusader 6.0L would de-rate power when the intake temps were too high. Many folks solved that with extra blowers to excavate hot air from under the doghouse. Fixing that problem turned a boat that people thought was a lazy pooch into a scalded cat. How's it work on a 70f morning?

@swbca I don't believe there's any risk of that as the locations of the plugs are on the external surface of the manifolds. If one of those plugs goes, the water just lands in the bilge. The internal separation of exhaust gas path and water path should not be compromised by one of these plugs failing.

Those are sacrificial plugs in the lightweight manifolds that replaced the cast iron lumps of a few years prior. They are known to corrode away and require patching and replacement. Shouldn't be a problem of water intrusion if they rot out. Just weld in new ones. Bakes sells them as do I'm sure any number of marine part retailers.

I'd pull and clean the IAC with some good carb and choke cleaner. I don't recall if that cycles through its range on power-on or not so I'm not sure how to test, but I'm sure there's a way.

I couldn't fit the NIBCO on my boat with the wedge bracket where it is either. I ended up shaving down the nibco on the side that contacts the wedge bracket until it was probably only about 1/8" thick. Just enough room to get it and the hose clamp on. It's been working great for 3 years that way.

@Newskierinwi hit up the UW ski team!

bit of a drive for you but look up the UW Stout ski team. Their course isn't in right now but I imagine it will be for fall semester

Adam Falled-well?