Ilivetoski

Swerve is a short setup but Great Lake, mike is a great coach as well

It says he bought it as a winter project last year and is selling now, seemingly before he finished the project... I would ask why... did it have more issues than it looks like? I’m sure he could have just decided it wasn’t worth it but you would think someone would consider that before buying a boat as a project

I would not. I’m super competitive, and that includes against myself. If I knew I couldn’t get any better I would stop and focus on golf

I would not. I’m super competitive, and that includes against myself. If I knew I couldn’t get any better I would stop and focus on golf

@jcamp that’s a job for USAWS to make sure you don’t have an obscene amount of skiers in a division (raise the score required to qualify), if 700 people qualify and half of them sign up for a division there is nothing the LOC can do for that

If you have so many skiers in one division that you have to run it on 2 separate lakes with 2 separate drivers the qualifying score needs to be raised so all skiers have the same conditions. If I showed up & was told I have to ski on a windy, rolly lake when my competition does not, that would be my last nationals

We JUST got finished having this argument but with outboards... please don’t bring this back with V drives

If it’s a V drive it’s not going to be a very good slalom boat, there’s no way around that. Read the handful of comments from people on this thread about the sport 200. I’ve been offered to ski a MC crossover, passed after looking at the wake. You are much better off with a TXI with a wedge and tower or a prostar with a tower than one of these

@oldjeep at one point last year I was surfing with a buddy he has a MC crossover boat, offered to pull me a slalom set, looked back at the wake and declined. Not sure how a GS would ski, but it can’t be good I don’t care what Nautique/ Malibu/ MC say

I keep going back to my V Type. Skied it the first year it came out, then got the VTR next year. Skied that about half the season and went back to the V type. Skied V type all year last year, next time I go skiing I’m getting off

The pro and back on the v type to see what happens

Life changes at 28, then again at 32, then again at 35, then again at 38, then again at 39, then again at 41. I don’t think 22 off is short line, but I do think it starts at either 32 or 35... That’s also where the pros start

I’m not saying this new ski is the same as a past ski or anything, I’m just saying I find it hard to believe our knowledge of ski design changes THAT much year after year

We get the benefit if it’s a better ski... if it’s essientially the same ski with a new number/ name/ graphic/ whatever I’m not sure how me spending $2K on that benefits me

Nate. I’m curious of the % of tournaments he’s won since becoming pro. Would bet it’s >90%, he’s upped the world record at the shortest length. No skier in the history of this sport could go against Nate and have a good confidence level that they actually come out on top

Anyone (not just Pete) saying outboards are better for skiing than inboards I honestly feel are trying to troll this forum. A boat is a tool like anything else. If I want to get a nail into a wall, I use a hammer. Could I use the opposite end of a screwdriver? Yeah, but the hammer is designed to hit nails. That’s what it’s meant for. Inboard are made for skiing. Will an outboard get you on top of the water behind a boat, maybe running some buoys? Yeah, but that’s not really what those boats are designed for. The people designing ski boats aren’t idiots, and people designing outboards aren’t geniuses, if an outboard offered an advantage over an inboard it would be offered. If a swivel seat was desired by skiers instead of a rear facing seat, it would be offered. The engineers who design boats for the big 3 know what they are doing, if they didn’t they either wouldn’t have jobs, or another company would come along, find designers who know what they’re doing, and they would sell ski boats. I skied behind outboards for years, today if I were offered a pull behind one I would most likely pass and save my energy and risk of injury for a set behind my boat. This is only my opinion.

I’m sure the dealers are happy about being stuck with these boats

When I see a bucket seat I just can’t help but think someone thought “how do we make the boat look cheap, inefficient with seating space, and inefficent with storage space... wait, I have an idea” seating is already limited in a ski boat, and dyna-skis don’t look to have any more seating than an OB direct drive... not much reason to listen to me, I’m not now nor ever will be in the outboard ski boat market but it’s just my $.02

To switch the engine industry (not just boats, cars too) from gasoline to electric?? Not a lot of moving parts to change that manufacturing process?

@scotchipman what if that comes with a $170K price tag?

Is there anyway to track it using the Zero off pucks?

Why is the passenger seat facing forward in the first picture? Make it pretty difficult to keep an eye on the skier

I think a lot of people would purchase the rebaged 200 over the much more expensive Ski Nautique, so I’m not sure how smart of a move that would be

Most people would be more than willing to ski behind an outboard to try it out, but just out of curiosity have you ever skied or driven an inboard? Don’t mean to sound rude, but I really am not sure. If not, I’m sure someone here would be willing to give you a pull

I can’t wait to see the price

Thanks all, I’m probably gonna have him work on keeping his ski on edge through the wake and getting his body position a little better before we look at the buoys. He’s getting a lot better every set so hopefully this doesn’t take as long as it did with me...

 

@LeonL that’s a really good idea, keeps him from busting his ass repeatedly trying to get to 2 ball