BraceMaker

Potentially. Dual rubber dual hardshells or even maybe a rear hybrid. Had my back foot not come out it would have limited the torque. MOB would have likely popped hard to say the sole plate being loaded is a bit of a normal force friction equation

Rubber overlay boot w RTP, crashed going into the first wake wasn't a particularly hard high energy fall just hit a bit of a roller lost the handle and my body rotated when I hit the water. spiral fractured femur. Had I broken at the waist I would have gone OTF instead I just twisted it right around.

I think what you're noticing is that several teams have a huge group of people who sort of unofficially "booster" the team and participate after they've graduated in some way shape or form. Purdue has several alumni that prominently run a ski school or host large tournaments at their lakes, run alumni tournaments and the like.

Correct, marinas are tough spots because you could have the worlds best electrician wire up the place, everything properly installed GFCI to all the dock supply and then a guy could be running a generator and back feed. or someone keeps tripping the breaker and the property owner calls out the mechanic from the dock who replaces the breaker with non GFCI. Its a tough environment and people who shouldn't touch it often do. At your personal dock a few things that can really help, make sure to test the outlets buy a GFCI outlet tester and check them periodically. You can have layered protection and should avoid having more current available than needed, Does the dock have a hot tub and need 100 amps or is it just the lifts which need 20 and the receptacles which only need 15, size it appropriately have GFCI breakers even though they cost more instead of GFCI daisy chained receptacles. Make sure any extension cords or items that are plugged in are secure and away from the water, strap them physically so they cannot fall in teh water and have in use boxes covering the powered item. Many shocks are from wet people handling the power cords. Consider having an electrician install switches to power off the outlets, no need to have the whole dock powered all day every day you could switch the lifts and the dock receptacles from shore so that they can all be shut off. Lighting can be low voltage LEDs on DC instead of AC line voltage.

Doubt there's any soil to grow plants in a quarry lake. Can you raise or lower the water level conveniently? Anything floating needs to be quite heavy and or fixed to do real work barrels and the like if you could install anchor cables and then push the barrels down to just barely under the surface of the water and cable them there you'd have pretty good wave attenuation. Like pool gutters you need the wave energy to exit one way and resist returning so things that float usually just move with the wave.

Just to keep it simple want to increase fun/participation while not changing too much the basic problem which is most skiers need to ski up the line quite a few passes to make the day worth it. We aren't going to make skiers go off the dock one line longer than their rank score or similar so that's not going to be an option. Which what's the biggest dead time in a tournament? Its when people miss going away or fall going away. Typically the boat then continues down to the far end. Stops, then comes back. To keep things fair all the "competitive" skiers need to take their opener going the same direction but how many more skiers could we have in for almost no additional tournament time? Put novice skiers at the far end along with someone to give them pointers/run the start dock and instead of giving them a 4 pass novice set give them 4 individual pulls from the far end. Put a separate 15' rope with a handle in the boat. Now every miss going away you have the skier drop at the end (or swim to shore as per usual) the boat continues down, the boat crew pulls in the tournament rope and tosses on the prepared 15' rope for the novice. The trick though is now you make the novice skier who misses go back down when they want into the rotation they still get their pulls over the course of the day but instead of 4 pulls in a row maybe they have 8 total pulls but have to ride down in the golf cart periodically. Most ski lakes have a golf cart of UTV anyway shuttle people back and forth but you've just gained start dock efficiency. Not perfect but might help get people pulled and keep the day moving.

@epyscs You can shift axles to chNge tongue weight. HRder on Tandems but look for a local welding shop and get a quote to shift the axles if you need to lower tongue weight. I will say I've never found a ski boat trailer to have a tongue I couldn't lift pretty easily they're not crazy. Some models with high tow capacity Bmw x5d is 6K lb Toyota 4 runners Honda pilot Not sure what you get there

Ignoring experienced skiers, For the novice skiers make them use one handle, pop a couple on a golf cart and send them and their gear down the lake, then run a skier down and drop pull a different skier back and drop. Coordinate to have a few people who give those skiers sort of a mini coaching session during that drop. Do 4 novice like that and instead of giving them 4 pulls in a row they get 1 pull and float and back.

We're always a bit America centric when it comes to towing, think the poster is from NZ but from BMW's launch even - note aluminum twin axle braked trailer, euro hitch, brake controller etc. But the euro hitch has a tongue weight capacity on an X1 of ~ 450 lbs. Something we'd never consider doing in the US but not uncommon. As I recall Matteo hauls the Jolly Ski Malibus around Italy behind an X1

But once you have the right drop I strongly suggest you buy a single good quality steel hitch with the right drop.

For what its worth, to build swim rafts we used to drive around to car washes and diary farms, both would get soaps/cleaning chemicals in white plastic drums and they almost always had an empty one in a corner collecting dust.

Does that even help Tommy's? Seems like a drop in their financial bottomless bucket

The wiley universal I think will hit the holes. I'd call them to verify but their universal plate fits everything I've tried it on

are they drain petcocks or drain plugs? Either way remove them completely and probe around in that hole with your screwdriver. Usually just plugged up.

Hull blisters PPG c. 1988 calling. Best thing you can do is keep up on cleaning and a good real wax no boat bling spray quick wax a hard carnuba wax. Add plastic straps to carpeted bunks on trailer or lift and drill drain holes if they hold water at low point and keep boat cranked high and dry not sitting wt. Gel coat is not that waterproof and if a void exists between gel and glass water will find it over time. Once that occurs you need to grind the gel, sand out a bevel and build it back in with gel which doesn't mean more won't form. But dry + waxed is your move or paint it (dont)