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Whatever you say, say it loud and clear to be sure the driver hears you. One ski partner did this really well. We used to joke that when she yelled "Hitit!", boats would start up at lakes miles away.

I'm familiar with the area and a slalom skier. Will PM you.

 

From another of your posts, it looks like you're skiing on the Potomac. Roughly whereabouts on the Potomac do you ski?

Sounds like a fuel supply issue. Besides what others have mentioned above, there may be an additional filter concealed somewhere between the tank and the engine. Ran into this once on a Malibu where a filter was concealed behind the bulkhead in front of the tank.

When people drive through the course for the first time, they are usually way off because they think they'll run over the right hand gate balls. Find a reference point on the dash that lines up with the right hand gate balls, (or make one with tape) then tell them "If you drive so this reference point lines up with the right hand gate balls, you'll be very close to the middle."

Not aware of any damaged skis or skiers.

We had a course in a tidal area that was subject to frequent damage by other boats, so our parts needed to be cheap and easily replaced. We used concrete block anchors with a short old ski rope upline with a sub buoy that ended in a loop about 3' below the surface at low tide. This part was permanent and we experienced no damage.

 

To the above we tied cheap small diameter poly rope that went up to the buoy and thru a large aluminum karabiner on the buoy, and back down to a sand bottle counterweight. The karabiner served as a pulley and we experienced no hangups. We drilled holes in the necks of the bottles to pass the rope through for tying. The small poly rope was tied to the upline eye and to the bottle with a bowline knot so it could be easily unknotted and replaced.

 

If the rig got run over by a boat, then the small poly line would break easily, avoiding disturbance to the lower upline and damage to the boat. We had to fiddle with the length of the small poly line so the rig wouldn't top out at high tide or sit on the bottom at low tide. Finally found a happy medium that worked at all but the very highest and very lowest tides.

We were lucky to have friends on private ski lakes who contributed their used buoys for us to use on the surface. We all carried sand bottles, karabiners, small poly rope and those used buoys in our boats.

 

 

I have not skied behind one but have driven several in tournaments. The handling felt about like a 200. It is definitely sensitive to trim. The new touch screen is much better than the last one.

The closest ski clubs in the area are Timberlake, Lake Holly, and Lake Chaney. Lake Chaney is in Brandywine, MD, about 90 minutes from Ashburn. Timberlake and Lake Holly are in Sparta VA and about two hours away. Travel to all could be unpredictably longer in traffic. Links below.

 

Lake Chaney: https://www.facebook.com/groups/155940957806250/

www.lakeholly.com

www.skitimerlake.com

I drove a 2019 a bit over the weekend pulling different divisions and drove it in all three events . While I didn't ski behind it, for driving I felt it handled exactly like a 2018. The new screen is much easier to use and more intuitive than the previous one. The slalom wait time countdown on the screen solves the question of "did we miss the beep?" And we all had fun trying to figure out which settings to use for tricks.

If the tournament scorebook, in addition to recording which brands of boats were used, also recorded whether or not the boat was a promo boat, it would be possible to generate some interesting reports on how well the manufacturers are actually supporting events with promo boats.

Another way to look at what boat hours mean: Cars average about 30mph. So for 100 operating hours they would travel ~ 3,000 miles. 1,000 boat hours then would be equivalent to a car with 30,000 miles. Doesn't sound that bad does it?

 

Of course ski boat engines are working harder and always going up hill. But then they are generally used in fair weather with minimal cold hard starts. With regular maintenance they should be good for a lot of hours.

It seemed the safe thing to do pull the hoses off the exchangers and some water did come out.

My wife was driving once when the rope came into the boat and went around her neck. The long tube protected her neck from chafe or worse until I (sitting in the middle) grabbed it away. A short tube probably would not have reached from the pylon to her neck.

Lake Chaney (formerly Eagle Lake) is closest in Brandywine, Md. Here's the click for their website https://sites.google.com/site/lcskiclub/home