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I have a 2 piece one that works pretty well. My kids are young so I do it pretty much myself and it takes me 10 or 15 minutes. With the help of a couple competent teenagers, after they get good at it and you all get good at it as a team, you could likely get it done in about 5 minutes or so.

Well this 2020 holdover women's union is still a little over your price range even though it is on a great deal on holdover. Nevertheless, I think it represents pretty well what you ought to be looking for in my opinion that will be a great ski for the open water skiing you have been doing and will also work very well for you as you are required to slow the boat down quite a bit in order to be able to start doing the course for your first times. I would prefer it with the vector boot instead of the prime, but the prime is probably fine too. So look at this, and if you can afford it, great. If not, use it as a pattern or a model of what you generally might be looking for on the used market. https://www.wakehouse.com/products/radar-womens-union-waterski-w-prime-rtp-2020.html?dfw_tracker=10071-37743-0000&gclid=Cj0KCQjwjPaCBhDkARIsAISZN7SwsmMvt27VQel8B3Ae709SDxIqpMbrm_cklBVoMkVYpDsNLp06OLAaArHREALw_wcB

We are all ready to see some of the latest renderings that made it through review!!! Let's see what you have put together?

You're in luck. You picked a great time to move there. @Such_a_brett just got approved to build this: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10222554176395473&set=pcb.10158161678293763

I think this summer is likely to stay pretty brutal throughout the whole summer. I think this summer will be peak sellers market, but should chill out after that as folks are finally allowed to spend their money on travel again. My prediction is a heck of a buyers market about 2-3 years out.

97+ nautique is the obvious answer when you ask for best wake. But then when you say you will be using it primarily on "open waters" then I start to cringe a little and ask exactly how open? Depending on that answer, you might start to sacrifice the best wake for a boat that is better on big water. 1st step in that direction would be a response lxi.

THIS is how you grow the sport of skiing. I love it. I agree with others that the rates are a touch steep, but also, I haven't seen the full experience, and like you say, it isn't your bread and butter, so it might actually be just fine. Time will tell there. Please keep us all updated here on how it goes.

I'm really excited for you man. I can't wait to see you get this up and running. I think you have such a cool concept for Utah families.

I marked 1-100, but if you count wakeboards and wakeskates, then I bump up to 101-500.

Well my Dad has one that is probably like a model year 2013 or so. He's not selling it, but I will give you some reassurance that it is a great ski to have as a boat ski for the beginners and stuff.

Right at the start I disagree with the guy. It's not this, It's not this, It's not this, It's not this. The only reason is this boogie man right here!!! Nah dude. It is like a zillion reasons all put together and different for each individual kid and family. Don't tell me it is all this one reason and we just need to fix this one reason and then everything is all good again and it is 1975 all over again. No.

I have been representing various manufacturers professionally for about 15 years now in my career and I am starting to learn a very interesting truth that started being amplified during the trump tariffs and then really got amplified over covid. The truth is that when people build factories, it is a HUGE investment, and in many cases, there is a very finite range of variability in that plant capacity. Something as significant and large as a boat is such an incredible undertaking that once your factory is set up, your plant capacity simply can't go up or down by a very large amount. So if I'm the CEO of one of these boat manufacturers, sure the market is good now while millions and billions of dollars that would have been spent on airline tickets, hotels, cruise ships etc. instead gets funneled over to boats, bikes, and ATVs. But I also know darn well that we are probably only a year or 2 away from all those billions of dollars heading right back to the hotels, airlines, and cruise ships. The last thing I would want to do is start building a new factory right now, just to have it finish up in 2022 at a time when folks are realizing that they aren't using that boat they bought 2 years ago very much anymore ever since they started spending all their money going on cruises and going to Disneyland and the Caribbean again.

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Thanks for asking the question. I think there are a lot of folks in your shoes.

Well maybe @lkb inspired him. It looks like Scot is wanting to have his side of the story heard, so he put it up on a different forum and asked me to share the link. @Horton, I understand if you don't want to allow this and would like to delete this post, but I figured I would at least put that decision in your hands. Scot has done a lot for waterskiing in the state of Utah and for me individually and continues to be a great support for the Utah Waterski Club even though he is on full time at Stillwater and doesn't have any need for us anymore. I figure him asking me to throw something up on BOS every now and then is a pretty small thing for him to ask of me given all he has done over the years for the sport and for me personally. https://forum.waterskico.com/post/my-side-of-the-ball-of-spray-story-11260098 But I totally understand if you would want it deleted as well. Your choice, I'm good either way.

@LeonL Here is the mental state: crazy. The guy really is crazy about waterskiing. He LOVES waterskiing more than anybody I've ever met. And as far as hiding behind an alias, you can't pin that on him. I'm sure he would love nothing more than to be able to come back to BOS as his real self and his real name, but unfortunately, that option isn't on the table anymore, so getting away with a generic alias is the only even remote possibility that he has of enjoying the brotherhood of his fellow skiers. I obviously won't tell Horton how to run his site, he can kick anybody off he wants any time he wants, and I understand his side of the story about why he kicked him off the first time and then again. I'm certainly not saying Scot is a perfect saint or anything, but to everybody thinking Chipman is some deranged lunatic because of how they have seen this go down, I really think there is a benefit of the doubt that you ought to consider giving him. His only real "craziness" comes from his deep love of this dang sport. If you met him in real life and got to know him, I can promise that you would see him as an asset to waterskiing, not a liability.

Somebody out there is a lot smarter on this than me and can come in to correct me. Until then, here is what I think I understand. Facebook requires you to have a lot more subscribers / followers before you can monetize. But then once you get to that level, then they pay quite a bit better than youtube does. So then of course, they would want your search to funnel to their facebook instead of their youtube so they can make more money off of each view. Also, if I understand correctly, as long as they set the video to public then you don't have to be "on facebook" to see it. Here, we can test it. I will link to one and you can go see if you can view it. https://www.facebook.com/293890444102892/videos/687834085072787 Erika...cause...you can never get too much Erika.

for a factory nautique tower you have that one flat crossbar that was meant for this like shown here. I would use that instead of putting it on the round bar part. Which then means I would buy it from new dimension.

My dad uses the one from Monster towers as it was just an accessory with the Monster tower. It seems to work ok. It feels like there should be a better design out there, but it gets the job done.

Welcome!! Great to have you join us. You're starting into it with a great boat!! I'm down in SLC, so I won't be of much use on the Boise specific issues. But I can assure you that if you approach the vets in your club with the same attitude shown here, they will be happy to teach you and then some. You'll get more than you even bargained for.

@tru-jack This video was published by @brooks a few years ago. I can't imagine any tournament boat surfing nearly as well as a malibu. That wedge really seems to give them a distinct advantage. Maybe the new SN with all of its big trick ballast?

So far I have not been a fan of the recent generation of malibus. BUT now seeing the fact that you can get it without a touch screen suddenly puts it up a notch or 3.

@Than_Bogan no problem at all. It is there and public for any link any time. You might very well be right that there could still be some great learning opportunities in there for him.

@Than_Bogan I do have a packet all ready that could possibly be useful, but I don't think the OP here represents the target market. My target market with it was guys who have been skiing for at least several years, and thing they have gotten pretty good, and then the course kicks their butt a few times and at some point they have that ah-ha moment where they realize that getting through the course at slow speeds and long line has a lot to do with how fast they can get across those wakes and only a little bit to do with how big the spray is on their turn. So it's mostly all about stacked position so they can get better at that, and thereby get better at getting across faster and faster. I believe the OP here would be better served by more basic level stuff currently. @smokevw Welcome to the club!!!! We are glad to have you and look forward to many years of sharing our addiction together.

@tjs1295 I totally hear you. My local Nautique dealer has been really great to work with even though my boat is 23 years old. My local MC dealer on the other hand SUCKS!!!!!! So right now, if I suddenly got a big raise at work and could afford something closer to new, I would love to pick up a 2 or 3 year old MC, as I personally prefer it to the Nautique, but then I think about trying to work with that dealer, and my enthusiasm dies pretty quickly. I'm sure the "bad dealer" problem happens nationwide, but it's totally hit and miss as it is completely specific to the individual who owns the dealership. I'm sure the factories are always looking to hook up with the best dealers in town, but if there is only 2 good ones and one bad one, then one of the big 3 has no choice but to just put up with the bad dealer.