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A button for "are you willing to have your coaching session shared on BOS?" Just thinking out loud such that if the coaching session were posted--it would satisfy those who felt they got value from the videos/coaching being posted on the forum. Basically an opportunity to learn from s'one else's coaching session. Having said that I wouldn't want that feature to diminish the value the coaches are imparting by giving away some knowledge after the fact for free. Just thinking out loud. Otherwise great job here @Horton

That was so good...I need a cigarette.

I don't remember where this thread has gone since 2019 and I'm not going to go back an read all of the posts--but my late bro Jim put this on his 6.2 Prostar and the thing was so quiet you would think it was electric. Minimal to no wake impact. That inboard could sneak up on a duck if it wasn't breaking water which is about all you heard. He skied weekday mornings very early in front of expensive homes that liked to complain--thus the mod to keep his course in the water and passion available. https://www.freshairexhaust.com/

Horses? Yes skiing is cheap compared to offshore sailboat racing, too(among other sports).

...and for all but the best of the best, there will always be an opportunity to tweak technique for far better gains than gains on equipment...granted one is on a high quality product. Not to say that equipment changes can't help us all to a degree--particularly if our technique is what it is--and more difficult to manipulate for a variety of reasons--tweak the equipment for the technique embedded. For most--I suspect there are some nuggets on technique that would yield larger gains. For those with excellent/reproducible/consistent technique the equipment tweaks are more important. It's cool to see the envelope pushed both on technique and equipment.

If at 36 mph shoot ski 15 off. Wake will be butter behind any of your choices there.

Very interesting, hard to see much downside other than it warps our traditional brains.

'97 is first year of a bubble butt

Lot of boat at $12.5K

Total sense.

I'll help you out a malibu VTX on the diamond hull--surfable, cruise-able, quasi ski-able.

Junk

You have a garden sprayer modified to fill turn balls partially with water.

Geez it looks so easy a caveman could do it.

My guess is a fair bit bigger than the Bayliner, which is a fair bit bigger than any true ski boat.