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Lucas-Prince of darkness

Lucas refrigerator=Warm Beer

@kirkbauer I would suggest skiing a 214 before purchase the wakes are no where close to the 3 main ski boats. Well made boat and lots of room but unless you are skiing at 34 and at least 28off then the wakes are hand full.

@Keith_Menard Take a wrench to a Chevy or Ford and you need Metric wrench's! Only 3 countries not on the Logical Metric system, USA, Myanmar, Liberia, nice company you keep.......And Yes, I owned a Fiat 124 and a couple of Alfa Romeo's, Italian cars have passion!

And there were a few others listed right now, even a Budget unit like this:https://www.kijiji.ca/v-powerboat-motorboat/red-deer/boat-lift-with-canopy/1589455203

And This one:

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-boat-parts-trailer-accessories/edmonton/shore-master-3500lb-lift-with-canpoy/1572551337

 

Bet both are open to offers this time of year, would rather sale and not worry about winter!

@S1Pitts I am in Calgary area, Great thing about Ski Boats is people buy gaint wakesurf boats and need bigger capacity lifts. Always lightweight used "Ski Boat" lifts for sale. Right now 2 for sale in Alberta on Kijiji.

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-boat-parts-trailer-accessories/calgary/2021-hewitt-boat-lift-5600lbs/1590399211

@schafer My wife (Alana) is not gonna be happy if your Bubbleback is gone! Love the 200 also, Congrats.

@klindy Predator Bay planned it very well, they used a different entrance for world's and had tons of parking just west of the lakes, they had parking attendants and even concerts during the event. That white tent on the turn island was a stage and the bands would play from there!

Worlds in Calgary in 2009 had big crowds 3000 to 5000 spectators a day.

Also any leads on Nautique 196 deck pads?

I looked on the HO site but no pics, where did you see it?

@skimtb Yup, do the odd oil change at my place! Have a great stock of filters also.

I built a custom waterski rack for my wife's Boxster, works great Roof up or down! 2 seats and carries 2 Skis!

Have fun at the Ridge! Amazing place with great people.

 

I had the 240hp PCM in my 97 SN, I swapped out to GT40 heads, Edelbrock intake, rebuilt the carb and it was a huge jump in performance. The boat was way stronger in all areas.

Your 2021 is a Clone of the 21 at Predator Bay in Calgary! The new 21 Prostar is very nice boat! Congrats

@andjules We have a Vapour Carbitex in a size 8 mens, it is current model, My wife skied in a RS-1 size 8 for many years and wanted a new boot, the new size 8 is way bigger then the old size 8! PM me and I can send you pics

@DP70 Sent you a PM, friend is selling a 99 Prostar 205 near Calgary, about 600 Hours.

 

196, bigger and newer, less spray. Both have great wakes!

O'Horton or JH Skis or Bakersfield ski lake

Found on Amazon for about $100 with 2 cameras and screen, seems like a great idea??

 

@BrennanKMN Curious how your math works to "convert" this boat to a Zero off boat? The GT40 motor is not compatible with ZO, it would need a new engine plus Zero off plus some new items like the throttle, cables etc?

I had a 97 and loved it, best i could do was Perfectpass with z-Box and the latest Version does work very well. maybe $1500 for that? but I would think a new engine etc would be $12,000 extra??

I would agree with most on here, best wakes at the most speeds and line lengths are 97-01 Ski Nautique, 02-09 196 Ski Nautique and the Carbon Pro, all years. But Carbon pro under $25k will be tough to find.

 

My personal boat is a 05 SN 196 w PP and Z-Box 9.2 installed, we also belong to a ski club and drive and ski new Prostar's and along with Ski partners's newer SN 200's all with Zero Off. Both ski great and not that much change going back and forth. Zero off does lock in faster and is a bit easier to use. I am not trading my boat anytime soon just for Zero Off.

@BigGerald3 And was removed from that show and replaced because of the issues that @slow mentions.