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S 534 makes all individuals are requirement to report child abuse, I agree whole heartily to that. It does not make it a requirement to mandate everyone take a SS course. Why can't we simply add to the wavier that one will abide by the laws of the land.

Well done. Merry Christmas.

I can do 4 events at our lake. Perhaps we can have a Zoom call at some point with interested parties. @jody_seal has taken lead and I am willing to assist in any way. Looking for the next step. Moving forward is a very positive action.

@Jody_Seal I see the potential. We could adopt any or none of the rules we currently have with USAWS and start as a small group at first to kick it off. I'm holding back sanctioning my 4 tournaments until further notice. A chance for some open thinking, you know the kind that jumped out of the box.

I'm in. We can apply the good and leave out the bad regulations. A clean slate is what we need. Thank you @Jody_seal.

Normally I host 4 tournaments each year at our lake, in light of the new requirements the HOA BOD has determined that we can not place our owner in this level of liability. Therefore I will not be able to continue sanctioning events. This is a very unfortunate for many skiers that have competed and enjoyed the camaraderie that they have become accustom too. To say the least I am very disillusioned with our Governing body and will continue to promote AWSA withdrawing from USA USOC affiliation. I volunteer to help with this effort.

I am still struggling with whether to sanction events in 2022 with SS liability. I would like to hear what other LOC's are thinking. As I mentioned earlier it appears that the LOC and Club will take on the responsibility and liability for enforcing SS during the event. The BOD for my lake community is very uncomfortable with this. Should we limit it to +18 years? Skip it this year in hopes that something will change? Thank you in advance for any thoughts.

Disassociate the AWSA from USOC and form a new BOD for the newly separated AWAS who's first job it is to scour the documents and eliminate what doesn't work. Set up new mission statement, and funding mechanisms.

It is time for the AWSA to disassociate from USAWSWS. I can see how the revenues from USOC are important to the USAWSWS, but not so much to the AWSA. When I say AWSA I generally refer to Local area tournament skiing. Our segment is small and funded by the skiers and LOC's themselves for the most part. Some of the new requirements placed upon the LOC and club s are onerous and present potential liability to the other owners of the lake properties. Why not change this to make SS an individual responsibility for each competitor. As an organizer I can not expose the millions of dollars of asset and investments that it take to build and own a private lake complex. Making the LOC and Club responsible for enforcing SS regulations does this. I now there are good intentions to this law, but it is over reach just like so many other regulations of late. What would it take to figuratively withdraw the AWSA from the USAWSWS?

The new regulations re SS say that the LOC and hosting club will be responsible to uphold SS rules. I think this places a great deal of liability on the host and the entire lake owner community. Unless I am reading the regulation wrong, I can't see placing all of the owners of the properties on our lake in this kind of jeopardy. I must either sanction my normal 4 tournament for 2022 or opt out. Can anyone shed light on the placing of SS responsibility on the LOC? Thank you

I Like it @Jody_seal a petition to disassociate the AWSA would start the juices in motion. Then include the thought @ALAJr proposes. Simple as that. Worst case it falls on its face, best, it shakes up the organizational foundation. It seems that there is no reason the majority of the competitors that chose to participate on good old USA terra firma should suffer restrictions to aspire to international games.

Well then ladies and gentlemen, what shall we do about this? My vote is to blow it up and start over before it all lays in ruin. Any ideas? I can be counted on to be one who will help set ups a new organization if need be.

How long would you leave your hot vehicle with a ski in it. They are both made of similar molecular materials. Place human hot cold values on inanimate objects is topic for a blog only. Hot ski looser atoms cold ski tighter atoms. My water temperature is hotter than most car interiors today 99.2 F

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It might be a lack of AMPS. That is why so many hydraulic lift s must use a 12V battery.

It was a picture perfect setting, thank you SMSR. So nice to see this lake showing off to the Swerve crowd. See you in the Fall.

It seems to me that the bill says "required to promptly report" not subject to mandatory training. Is there any clarification to this? I think many reasonable good intentioned people will view this as another impingement on their civil liberties and vote with their feet. We as a group should come up with an alternative to this heavey handed top down governance in our sport. A feeling of helplessness seems to be a common thread in this conversation.

Sorry SN 196. True the 5.7 L is no longer available, but Im not sure that is a full accounting of the need for bigger more expensive boats, if one is just talking about pulling a skier through the course. Now to be clear, the newer MC's are the nicest skiing tug.

Maybe ask once again, did the boats need to get bigger, heavier requiring larger more expensive engines? If so why? I think most people would agree the SN 197 was a pretty darn good tug.

Easy, insect loving Agronomists are good people. She is correct about water testing.

When will we know if these proposed changes are excepted?

@jcamp For budgetary purposes I calculated 8 to 10 boat hours per 3 round tournament day. The tournaments generally have about 32 skiers and because of the comps for various reasons in the budget I assume 25 paid skiers. My expected profit/loss is $0. I try to keep it as simple as possible.

Good Job Will. Well thought out and a giant step forward. Thank you.

Back on topic, I will pay $50 per boat hour used to pull my tournaments. I calculate 8 to 10 hours in a single day tournament.

Do you have a web site?