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@horton Historically most clubs were selecting every day of the year to sanction practice, so now you simply request to have all of the club's practices sanctioned for the year and pay a $50 annual fee. Log into the club account, then click the bottom option on the sidebar "Event Sanctioning" and complete the annual agreement.

@swc5150 What engine do you have? ?

Send a picture of the rudder - likely just a loaded rudder ideal for driving skiers.

@rockdog While there are certainly more older individuals skiing than younger individuals I don't think the results of this survey is necessarily representative of the sport of water skiing, but rather representative of the individuals on this forum. That is a key difference. Many younger individuals either do not visit this site at all or are infrequent visitors who would likely not have filled out this survey.

@buechsr What we call “AWSA Nationals” is technically the U.S. Water Ski National Championships, an event which USA-WSWS owns the rights to. By this time in the year an event agreement or contact has been executed by the LOC (Mystic Lakes), AWSA, and USA-WSWS. The fact is that AWSA does not actually own the event and receives a small portion of the entry fee from the event, but would like to webcast the event. If they choose to do so it is their responsibility to find a way to fund the webcast and no additional burden should be placed on the skiers or LOC. Putting on the National Championships is a big enough job as is.

@buechsr As Keith mentioned in the second post the webcast is problematic: There’s little incentive to attract advertisers, it does little to attract new members, it’s another major task to setup and execute (both for the site and camera/broadcast folks) and little value to the participants. The only viable options I see are crowdfunding the webcast or trying to sell sponsorship to non-endemic companies. Keith, how about a rebate on entry fees if you secure sponsorship, even if its not dollar for dollar? ie, someone finds a $500 sponsor, they get $100 credit on entry. Could be complicated, but by using a rebate system, gives staff time to work through the numbers post-nationals when things calm down in the fall. This would be even more complicated than meets the eye as the entry fee revenue is split between the LOC, AWSA, and USA-WSWS. AWSA has decided to webcast the event and is therefore responsible for the cost of doing so. what about premium parking (cars and RVs)? Premium RV spot costs, say, $200, cars, $50. Thats 30 RVs and 180 cars = $15,000. Parking is the responsibility of the LOC and any revenue generated from parking is retained by the LOC. Again, AWSA is the entity behind the webcast. If you're a national competitor with a legit shot of winning, and you're opposed to contributing 150 bucks if you win, easy, don't go. Okay, this one is just ridiculous. This individual has paid their entry fee and has every right to compete in the event and therefore is able to win the event. AWSA has no right to then send that individual an invoice for the webcast. Some individuals or families or stretching to afford to attend nationals between travel expenses, lodging, and entry fees. Others could stroke a $5k check and never notice it missing from their account. Oh and as a 12 year old skiing behind an outboard bay boat I rathered watching Wade Cox and Marcus Brown than some kid fumbling through a pass.

@cacman Based on the Waterski Pro Tour site that event "Malibu Open" has moved from Trophy Lakes to Lymanland. https://www.waterskiprotour.com/current-season

@buechsr If you or someone else wants to raise the capital required to fund the webcast of AWSA Nationals - cool, I'm all for it. However, your idea of taxing the national champions may just be the most ludicrous suggestion posed in this thread. If as many people as you purport see value in the webcast, it should be extremely easy to raiser the funds necessary to cover the cost.

@buechsr I don't think he is suggesting that anyone is forced to watch the entire event, simply pointing out that it is hard to justify the significant expenditure required to webcast the tournament. While I think it is nice for families and friends to be able to watch their skier compete, I have a hard time seeing this as a worthwhile investment for an organization that is already strapped for cash.

@Sethro While that theory is correct in the short run, if the companies believe this increase in demand will be a long term increase it would be wise to make capital investments to increase production capacity in order to meet increased demand. @lpskier That is correct. Correct Craft purchased a facility near near the current Nautique plant in order to increase production capacity. I believe the facility was previously a window factory.

@Horton He is no longer listed on the athlete page of their website for what that's worth. https://www.malibuboats.com/discover-malibu/life/

@lpskier Sponsors should not be allowed to dictate what equipment gets used at Nationals. I will disagree here. If USA-WSWS sold the rights to Masterline to be the official tow line of their event with ML providing the ropes, ML very much has the rights to dictate which line gets used for the event if they choose. That being said, the have historically provided both Optimized 2.0 and Pro mainlines for the event (in addition to jump mainlines, jr mainlines, shock tubes and handles). @ScottScott As suggested above....seems that's an AWSA call. Semantics here but it was likely an LOC call. The ropes are provided to the LOC by Masterline through an agreement with USA-WSWS. AWSA has no involvement in the ropes.

@dbutcher I am 99.8% positive the entire event was pulled by the Ski Nautique.

The feather frame rear boots are designed to work with Radar's rear insert pattern. You have two options: - buy a Vector BOA on an aluminum plate (or other rear binding) - put new inserts in the ski

@Rednucleus While I get your point, your examples don't exactly hold up. Ski, bindings, vest, gloves, and handles (for the most part) are all skier supplied equipment. Allowing all skiers to bring their own rope would be a disaster. The rope is tournament supplied equipment and for a pro tournament you would need 3 ropes. Having multiple options available would increase that number to six ropes which has been done in the past at events but can make things a bit messy at the dock.

@Bunger For open water skiing at 32mph I would look at the Radar Senate Alloy or Graphite. Theses skis really work well at this speed and handle rougher water a but better than the Lithium or Pro Build.

@lpskier the smallest 3 Event bag that Stokes makes is an 88" and their bag is much narrower than Masterlines. No way you can get all of that gear in a Stokes. I had an 85" ML bag when I had shorter skis and now have a Stokes bag.

Your best bet would be an 85" Masterline bag. You want that bag to be as close to the length of the skis as possible, as it makes it much easier to roll. All that said, no way you will be able to get the bag under 50lbs with all of that gear in order to fly.

Two mechanical releases as in front and back hard-shells with silvretta releases? NIGHTMARE

@swbca I figured - I have a few contacts in at Lago Santa Fe in TX, but unfortunately none in NM! Hope you find a place to ski.

Santa Fe, NM or Santa Fe, TX?

@Gloersen Which release mechanism are you using?

The ProStar 205 was introduced for MY 1992 btw so 92-95. If you are looking to match the upholstery that narrows it down a bit more as interior colors and patters changed slightly over the years. Best of luck with your search.

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@The_untalked_about Seems like you are just trying to stir s**t under an anonymous veil. There are rules in place regarding family members officiating for their kids. Not sure where you are located but this is typically not allowed in the US for Class ELR events. Have there been instances of cheating in our sport? Yes. Have they been dealt with? Yes. A few individuals have been suspended or banned, others have been put on probation.