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wiley's watersports right here in south seattle sells just about everything ski related. they also provide components for a number of different bindings and they are a few blocks away from a machine shop that punches out aluminum parts for them and other companies. if anyone can get you hooked up for metal ski parts it would be wiley's. https://www.wileyski.com/about-us/ -ask for darren (206) 762 -1300

i understand the reasoning behind inner tube strips and rubber tubing Mark_Matis and i think its a good way to go if your water level changes suddenly or often. but since our water levels change very slowly over a period of days or weeks we just rely on the ed brazil ' finger trap ' method since we can adjust the buoys from the boat with a boat hook. the trade off is the 1/8" bungees never rot or break so we get years of use out of them.

instead of rubber tubing we've had inexpensive 1/8'' bungee last years for us. zip ties serve as the fuse-able link. home depot sells a plastic jar with 6 of the small bungees tied in a loop for cheap.

' the uncalled four '

' garage mahal '

search ebay for ' disposable irrigation syringe ' which is a dental syringe with a thin curved plastic tip and no needle involved. way way easier to inject thinned epoxy than to pour it into a crack. i would post a link but ebay links are real long and i don't know how to make it shorter.

have you tried drying them and smoking them? you might stumble onto the next big thing. . . or you could develop green lung disease. on a serious note the japanese discovered a super slippery massage gel made from nori seaweed so maybe there actually is some kind of commercial extract or homeopathic use for the stuff. meanwhile i think i remember richard doan from up here in wa state posting pics on here of a thing he made to pull behind his boat that clipped weeds off at there base with no getting in the water. so maybe ask him about that.

it can be difficult to understand what the frog is saying.

very cool but a big problem i see here is no one could be sure where the bare footer would end up swimming since the snowmobile can't stop without immediately sinking. if the skier got hurt or even knocked out in a fall he could be in serious trouble long before help could save him.

on the serious side most dive shops carry a silicone liquid (gel) that a few drops of would have made getting both in and out much much easier -plus you can use it on the zipper. wax on the zipper last longer but in a pinch the silicone would have made your life much better.

you can steal a car rob a bank or even tip over cows in wisconsin but its practically a capital offense to do *anything* untoward with a snowmobile.

@jimbrake -rico asked i answered. i'm not pretending to know which is better just pointing out that theres more than one way to defur a feline -no doubt some ways are better than others.

if your lake ever gets any kind of rollers 3 feet is not long enough to keep an inboard ot and inboard-outboard from grabbing the centerline if its crossing over and settles into a trough at the wrong time.

@Rico -original ' west coast ' teaching from a decade ago would have us twist our pelvis toward 1 oclock to pull out and then counter rotate our hips toward 11 oclock to turn in. so yeah there's another way.

parachute cord doesn't float but you can also use plain old diamond weave poly and just insert some short pieces of lead wire here and there.

in the gut writings the adams promoted -thru @Wish i think -the gate idea of turning your pelvis toward 11 oclock during the pull out and glide and at the very moment you want to turn in toward the gate you turn your pelvis toward 1 oclock. if you feel that the pull out / glide emulate to some degree actions similar to what is desirable after the second wake -going to the 2 ball -then this hip movement being discussed here makes sense. thats my entirely uneducated take on the matter.

yeah it's cool looking but hows the 22 off wake?

if you have an outdoor stair tread or some thing like that with some of that black traction material stuck to it just rub the gloves on that to rough up the straps. seriously.

@6balls -you're remembering the mapple video incorrectly. in those ' no gate ' passes andy starts a couple feet outside of the white water ( left side of wake ) and snaps off an extreme angle just as he gets to the gate. still amazing but not quite as impossible as you remember -only impossible for all other humans besides mapple.

@"Pat M" -getting older beats the alternative.

second for the 65 century resorter. had a marinized rambler engine.

@soIski -in snow skiing the upper body is used to help the lower body turn by giving the lower body something to ' block ' against which is why snow skiers talk about upper body lower body ' separation '. in essence the lower body can be driven into the turn because the upper body is maintaining its position facing down hill. in my opinion the difference in water skiing is that the design of the ski combined with edging is what drives it around the turn and counter rotation simply allows this to happen quicker by reducing the amount of body mass the ski has to ' drag ' around the corner. i realize i'm not verbalizing that very well but no matter what else happens the more counter rotation you use to turn the ski the more your upper body will need to catch up and then rotate past the lower body for the next turn. if you watch the top skiers in slow motion they may use counter rotation to a greater or lesser extent but then pretty much all of them get their hips very square to the ski by the time the pull really comes on. in other words what ever amount of counter rotation they might have used in the turn they don't hold that counter rotation for very long.

@AdamCord - hopefully your get that when i said suyderhoud had gut i was joking about his front porch not claiming he invented the grand unified theory of slalom.

do i wear the kill switch lanyard? only at parties.

if you watch that video closely you will see that mike suyderhoud clearly had gut. that was years ahead of the denali boys.