crashman

Sunset Ski Lake- I 69 at exit 245 (indiana state road 28). The lot next to mine is for sale.

Is the logo trademarked? I need a flag that I can hoist in full view of I-69. Cracker Barrel pays good money for that sort of thing

Morse lake inboards did my neighbor's v- drive. I would think N3 would do it as well. Or ship it to Jody's and road trip to pick it up- collect a few wintertime pulls when you get there to satisfy the off season blues.

gotta love Indiana- biggest decisions our HOA has to make is whether to make annual dues $100 or $150- and whether to turn the well back on if it gets too dry after it's too cold for all but one member to ski (the answer= yes). It may not be the most beautiful place on earth but we gots lots of wata and soil just made for digging ski lakes.

Many of the reasons above bust mostly because I'm addicted. I get high when I do it, I go through withdrawal when I don't, as soon as I'm done I'm thinking about when I'm going to get my next fix. I need to do it increasingly more to get the same high. I've spent a ton of money on it. I'm willing to risk my body for it. And to justify the addiction I keep trying to get others- even my family members- hooked also.

Not done yet! Today's my buoyversary! 3 years ago today I rounded # 6 for the first time so I celebrated with a volume set and rounded 48 balls in a row. Air 60s water low 60s and perfectly comfortable in a camaro top.

I've used both the VP and the scribner and the vent on the scribner seems to work a little better. Instead of a twist vent it flips open with the thumb, so once the gas starts flowing you flip the vent open with your thumb to dump a tasty 5 gallon load of petrol in your favorite go boat. I sometimes liberate 1 or 2 mls with the flip vent but that just seems to break the surface tension coming through the gates. I have a buddy that got questioned one time when he was filling up his jugs about them being legal containers. He less than politely told the lady that he's a race car driver and she should mind her own business. I wonder if they would refuse to fill them in some place like Oregon where they have to pump gas for you.

X2 on VP or scribner jug.- gas it like a NASCAR. Back to skiing in 30 seconds.

That looks great! Were you able to sell soil? It seems like there are some good ski lakes to be made in the Midwest while selling the soil to cap brown fields. Is it just you and your father-in-law or will there be others? There is a wakeboarder on our ski lake and if he started to jack with the course while I was getting ready to ski I would probably blow a gasket.

Marcus Brown has done a great job of reaching out to the non-buoy crowd which is a necessary ingredient for the rebirth of waterskiing. Growing up I skied behind a 17 ft tri hull with an outboard but I still somehow felt connected to the guys on the bud waterski tour. I don't see that with wake boarding- it seems the message there is that if you're not boarding behind a 6 figure boat big enough to sink a small fishing boat then you're not part of the "in" crowd. For any of these sports to survive on a pro level it needs to be inclusive of the guys who have never seen a course or a boat with ballast.

One of the coolest aspects of this sport is the access we (even a hack like me) have to the sport's top athletes. It was pretty cool watching Daniel Odvarko ski so well last weekend knowing I took lessons from him in the spring. Now if I can only meet Horton in real life someday...

Time for a Jamie Beauchesne comeback

Very entertaining webcast. Hard to believe professional slalom broadcasts can't replace some of the crap that's on TV.

Check out the under armour cold weather base layers. I have a 3.0 base layer that I wear under my oneil boost baggy suit that's pretty toasty. (although as you've seen in my other post I'm switching to camaro wet)

Just finished up a session breaking in the camaro 2 mil full suit. From a skiability standpoint I prefer it over my oneil boost baggy suit and far more than my previous cheap neoprene full wetsuit. Water 60 air 50s so not that cold yet but obviously I was perfectly warm in the camaro. We will see what happens as the water gets colder but I'm going to stay in the camaro as long as I can.

That's funny- when I heard this on the news this AM the first thing I wondered is whether it will make my stargazer go wonky. No wonder my wife thinks I'm a slalom nerd.

I have one on mine- Nice to have when it's really cold. I just kind of spray my hands and feet down with it to get some feeling back in them after a cold ski. I think the water skis better when it's cold.

Haha @brady you're funny. "I was coming around 5 ball when something grabbed the back of my ski and pulled me down" is that the first "out the back"?

It's going to have to get pretty cold here before I switch from my 1 mm blacktec top to the 2 mil full suit. Wearing blacktec is like wearing a solar panel- when the sun is out the heat from the 1 mil top is unbelievable. I wore it in michigan over Labor Day with air and water in the 60s, sunny day and I was roasting in just the top. The 1 mil definitely does not impede my hack job.

stop leaving my butt behind me on my offside

Have to be careful not to equate usaws membership with the popularity of the sport in general. There are tons of 15 through 28 off skiers in my neck of the woods who don't belong to usaws. Many of them used to when the club required it but they no longer do.

@waternut was just kidding. I think centurion is the boat people are describing when they clamor for a "bare bones" boat made for a private ski lake.

If only someone would make a clean looking closed bow slalom boat that drives and skis well with only the bells and whistles that skiers really want like ZO at a decent price...

What's the site in Italy where the T-gas family skis? That has to be on the list.

And a great hull it is. Whomever on this forum directed me to it-thanks!