UWSkier

I ski on public water much of the time that is super popular with surf boats. Last year, I was at the launch dock when I struck up a conversation with a fisherman and the subject of wakes came up. He said "those &$#% ski boats make it impossible to stand and fish with their giant wakes." I was standing in my Malibu Response at the time and said "this is a ski boat, and you and I are in 100% agreement on those wakes. But this one makes the smallest wake possible and that's what skiers want. Surfers and surf boats are not skiers and ski boats." He thanked me for keeping my wakes small. :smile: But if these guys start going after "ski boats," they may throw out the baby with the bath water. Gotta make sure we're educating as many of them as possible and keeping them as allies against the monster wake crowd.

@Than_Bogan it has been there off and on the past few years as well. The craziest 39 she ever ran was at Stillwaters in Wisconsin 2 years ago.

Wonder if Reg was riding this at Swiss. She wasn't getting the kind of tip rise at 1 and 3 at 39 last weekend that she's had for a few years.

The follow cam on the drone was awesome, though I would suggest that it just follow the boat rather than the skier. I love the vantage point but the back and forth motion was a bit much to track on my big screen TV.

Jakob's got a great stacked technique and is part of the new crop of young skiers like Poland, Hazelwood, etc just without the spotlight. Been following him on IG for a few years. He can rip.

Was hoping to see Pigozzi there on his new whip

I think a mix of old and new would be awesome. Turn of the century Malibus and MC 197s are some of the finest looking boats ever put to water. Gotta make sure they get some love. :)

Just ordered mine. Looking forward to trying it out!

Call PP before spending too much time pulling your hair out.

Aww man @Skiphreak that sucks! Those LXis were phenomenal slalom boats. What's gonna happen to that boat? Lots of good parts on there if it's going to salvage.

used to use 12. Changed to 13. Way way fewer mis-grabs with a 13 and works better for my body dimensions.

Exactly. Except the surf boats bit since that ends our day.

Surf boats. Esp with tower speakers engaged. Wind that settles down right as you put the boat away for the day and your body is gassed. People who don't realize that boots hold water and proceed to empty their contents on the floor of the boat after a set. People who bump my camera (phone) off it's axis right before a pass where I am working on something I'd really love to see on video. Or who shorten the rope but don't put it between the fingers on the ski doc.

Better wakes than the 206 but I'm pretty sure by 2011 they went to the problematic touchscreen control. There are options to replace that functionality with a switch panel but it'd be custom solution.

I'd do this with a cam setup and a single roller on a spring loaded axle. Cam would be flat from what would effectively be trough to trough and gradually increase in angle until it ended at 80 degrees off centerline (cam would transition back to flat but camera could still rotate past that). It would be symmetrical on the other side. You could retrofit this to a ski-doc easily. If I had a 3D printer, I'd design and build one to try out.

I've had these on the boat for almost 3 years now and haven't needed to snug them up since the week I installed them. Never did anything other than clamp them down with the worm drive clamps that came on the Nibco.

Gates and controlling the load out of my good-side turn. I ran 28 yesterday for the second time in my life and both of them have been slack line at one ball rodeo rides (though yesterday's video doesn't look too bad actually).

I listen to Matteo and Spraymakers. Play them at 1.6x speed and use the Google Podcasts app to "trim silence" and your 1 hour podcast plays in about 25 minutes. You get used to listening at speed after about 5 minutes.

@Horton that charge profile is pretty much standard for Lithium batteries. Folks are going to need to get past the notion of having a "full tank" on cross country trips unless they're parking overnight where a topping charge can bring the reserves back to 100%.

@chrislandy I need something that can go cross-country pulling a 7500 lb, 29 foot travel trailer. If I were only towing my ski boat, I could get by with a Rivian for my towing needs since that never goes more than 60 miles from home. When electric gets to the point I can get 250 miles of range out of a 5 minute stop in a trailer-convenient charging stall/lane in the middle of nowhere on a 2 lane county highway with ubiquity, I'm in.

I'll convert my 2001 Response to electric if someone makes a decent kit that in-total weighs the same as my cast iron lump GM 5.7L and lets me distribute the power cells around to optimize wake performance. I'll convert my wife's SUV (our run around town car) to an electric or PHEV gladly. But I'm not converting my tow vehicle any time soon...

I downsized going from a 71" 2019 Senate Lithium to a 69" 2022 Senate Pro. I'm 245-250 lbs depending what I had for breakfast. I had my 2019 pretty dialed, but the 2022 seems to turn in on my offside much more automatically and gives me a more symmetrical path than my 2019 did. It's also far more willing to make a tight turn on my offside if I'm running late. On the 2019, if I needed to scramble, I'd make a pitted on-side turn to try to get back in shape. On the 2022, I can do that on either side as long as I'm not trying my hardest pass (28 off at 34 MPH currently). I've run 28 on the 2022, have not on the 2019.

Yeah, but the tech will trickle down. This is a look at the possible.

This is freekin cool. 355 HP and 443 lb-ft of torque (at idle RPM) out of a 63 lb motor. If I got rid of the 900 lb block and the stern-mounted fuel tank, I could tolerate a lot of battery weight, especially if I could strategically place it for best performance. Link

@DW on my 2001 Response with a fat skier in tow (me), at 34 MPH I burn 10 to 12 GPH during a slalom pass depending on what the ZBox is doing with the throttle at the time.