Golfguy

You make very good high quality ski tow gear. Please, Please, Please color the rope sections on the tournament quality ropes so that a spectator on the shore can tell what line length the skier is running.

I am selling a 2000 Malibu Responce for a neighbor on our lake. Good price 710 hours, however I am in AZ. PM me if you are interested.

Use it to do some quick pull-up as a warm up for some good buoy chasing.

+1 for the Pro Star!

Sorry 25' 30' from my bed.

Teak, if you are in a hot climate. Burned feet today on my fiberglass MC platform.

The is the up side. I like were you are going with this. I just love chasing buoys.

Ok, so next tournament we have we can use a 1989 Brendella.

It seem apparent that what is happening with pricing will continue. A few years from now we will be complaining about $150,000 tournament boats. As a group we need to tell the slalom boat manufacturesr that we are not intrested in bigger heavier more expensive boats.

jody_seal Exactly.

@LeonL Lets just say the demise of the CP had nothing to do with the popularity of the boat.

The CP didn't die because people didn't think they are a great boat. I believe it would have taken off sales wise because they bucked the trend happening with what the other manufactures were doing. They were a sort of a rebel with a great wake.

jack up the engine box and slide in a ProStar.

Important topic. In any sport the longterm health is that the cost to participate will influance growth or not. Golf, for example, commanded huge greens fees in the past. Now with a steady decline in participation, the greens fees have moderated. In tournament skiing with the governing body telling the competetors what products (boats) they must have will have the effect of deminishing participation. Especially in view of the cost of the boats, even promo boats are hard to approach from a fiscal standpoint. The boats have become bigger, heavier and needing larger more powerful and expensive engines to move them down the course. I don,t think any buoy chaser asked for these changes. Particularly when prices become astronomical. So this is nothing new. Can we make a change? I would like to float this idea. Instead of the governing body testing and certifing certian boat manufactures, they simply re-inforced the idea that a boat must go straight through the course and maintain speed tolarances. After all no one would buy a boat that can't pull a 150 skier out of the water. What other sports governing body dictates the equipment the competitors use. This is an old discussion, but IMO it has a potentail to punish the sport we love.

Pull the rope into the boat and throw it on the floor, no coiling. Then the skier picks up the handle and the rope runs out from the floor if the boat. Skier watches for knots. Jack Horton taught me this.

A credable sourse recently told me that Rev S plus elliminated the number system within the letter designation. In other words there are three settings A+,B+,C+ The numbers within the letter group have no barring on the control in the plus mode????

In the fuel management system there is the opton of either telling it you filled the tank, or telling it how much gas you added. On my 2019 when I fill the tank and say the fuel tank says I put in 15 gallons the fuel management system concurs with that every time.

ProStar hands down. Prop it for more speed if you like. A strong 40+ should be a perfect speed.The side spray and wake are perfect for both slalom and footing.

My 19 is the best boat I have had at the gas dock. No problems with fuel delivery. It could be the curvature of your fuel thingy. I know this is a joke set up.

I would agree that the price is a little high. I just sold my 1999 LT1 with 1250 hours, it ran like new.

Promo for sale in AZ

This is a great discussion. I wonder how many other sports that the USOC is involved with where as the orginazation governs not only the activities of the elite athlets but all of those participating in the sport to the grass root level. It seems there is a difference in needed governances. There is a definite opinion expressed here, so maybe the problem can begin to be addressed. The first step is to admit all is not well in our orginazation. Good stuff.

The freedom not to be over regulated. To keep my money in my pocket.

"And as we all know, this day and age, every time something in the world happens like it did with USA gymnastic, everyone else has to suffer the changes that get mandated upon us." As a founding father said when we give up freedom for safety, we deserve neither.