Patrick

A new to me boat, or just new if I go crazy and use up my mid life crisis a little early. It's all about supporting the economy right?

A new to me boat, or just new if I go crazy and use up my mid life crisis a little early. It's all about supporting the economy right?

Am I missing something about how it's attached to the pylon that would make it a pain to change the rope length? Doesn't it rest on the pylon such that you just lift it off and then put it back down? Looks like a nice simple design.

I haven't tried anyone that young yet, but we've had lots of success with the deep-V handles for people just learning their deep water starts; you might try one of those to start with.

I'm a newbie relatively speaking to most people here, but I had to relearn my starts when I switched to two boots. I always started with my foot in the RTP so I didn't think it'd be much different, but it really was. It might depend on how you're starting now, but with the RTP I kept the ski out in front of me a little more and didn't realize how much I was flexing my heel on starts. I had a couple failures after I put the double boots on, and a few 'harder than normal' starts after that, but it didn't take too long for starts to be as easy as before. Just ball up a bit more and keep the ski up towards the butt crack if you aren't already.