Baller Keith_Menard Posted June 30, 2014 Baller Share Posted June 30, 2014 We did the happiest ski photos...how about the saddest? We FINALLY got some smooth water on the course in Webster (this year has been a nightmare with tubers thinking it is cool to run/ruin the course) I was psyched I was going to get to see if anything I had been working on had translated... and there the ski sat...waiting for a boat that would never come due to a dead battery. So...very...sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller colo_skier Posted June 30, 2014 Baller Share Posted June 30, 2014 Welcome Keith. Were be that? I think for conditions that nice the car would have loaned it's battery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Keith_Menard Posted June 30, 2014 Author Baller Share Posted June 30, 2014 I have been here for a while...but logged in under my facebook account...sooo...I guess I am new now :) I think I was kmenard before. It is in Webster, MA. By the time my friend figured out the boat wouldn't start on the charger, it was already getting to be too late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Edbrazil Posted June 30, 2014 Baller Share Posted June 30, 2014 Webster, Massachusetts: site of many tournaments, including the 1964 Nationals. There is a cove toward the North end where they would hold their tournaments. I last skied there in 1974; don't know if they still use that area. At the time, a top tournament site. In 1964, Billy Spencer was at his peak in Boys, after winning the Worlds the year before. They still had ramp tricks then. Carl Lyman had a 1-ski ramp flip. I have a DVD that chronicles a lot of the performances, especially jumping. In Mens Jumping, the first skier out was Jimmy Jackson, who won the event. That was before seeding, which started the next year. Back when there was form scoring, and your 2 best jump scores were combined. Next year, seeding came in, prompted by the TV people. CBS covered the event, back when network TV was featuring some water skiing. In the attached picture, it shows Jimmy Jackson about to land a winning jump, pulled by a Crosby Twin Rig. Note the TV camera on a scaffold at the left. Check out the carpet of spectators in the photo. Looks like it must have been a bit chilly in late August. This picture comes from an old Water Skier magazine. The vignette in the picture is Dicksie Ann Hoyt, who is the 2nd woman to jump 100', (after who?) and who apparently won overall there. Back then, the Nipmuc Ski Club had its headquarters in a bar down the lake a bit. Good location for a ski club. Hmmm...can someone name the lake? Webster Lake for short, but it had a long- long Indian name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller_ Wish Posted June 30, 2014 Baller_ Share Posted June 30, 2014 @OB wins.... That is beyond sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Texas6 Posted June 30, 2014 Baller Share Posted June 30, 2014 You're right, @OB's pic is sad...I don't know though @Wish, a pic of your course after the vandals got hold of it would have been a close second place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller_ Wish Posted June 30, 2014 Baller_ Share Posted June 30, 2014 @Texas6 would have to have been an under water photo....nothing to see on the surface. Sadder to see a course on glass and be told by idiots you cant use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller DaveD Posted June 30, 2014 Baller Share Posted June 30, 2014 Should have taken pictures of the course with whitecaps at 7am today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skibumm Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Scott that is horrible. I was just thinking about course one and how much water was there. Apparently none at all. Course 4 will be our only one here soon. I was out Friday and it is shallow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller MISkier Posted June 30, 2014 Baller Share Posted June 30, 2014 There are 3 reasons this is a sad ski photo: 1. The course is not in the water. 2. The boom in the photo was broken by a bass boat drafting about 12 feet of water at takeoff and running right over the buoys. 3. Look closely for the entrance gate boom. Wait, you can't see it because it was dragged or otherwise relocated to some other unknown portion of the lake. This was on day 1 of a one-week vacation. The course had been installed for about 5 hours and I didn't even get a set on it before the destruction occurred. The worst slalom equipment I own is between my ears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller ToddL Posted June 30, 2014 Baller Share Posted June 30, 2014 These are older, but very sad... http://www.waterskiaustin.com/Lakes/drought2009.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDET Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 @Edbrazil. Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. I used to ski the tournament there a l o n g time ago. Nice place.... I feel old.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skibumm Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 @scotchipman I have not been on course 3 since before lake powell first part of June. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Waternut Posted July 1, 2014 Baller Share Posted July 1, 2014 That one is pretty depressing @OB even though I only skied there once. Must be heartbreaking for you guys. Were you not even allowed to collect your buoys? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller SkiJay Posted July 1, 2014 Baller Share Posted July 1, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller ozski Posted July 1, 2014 Baller Share Posted July 1, 2014 @Skijay do you know the "how"? Nautique right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller SkiJay Posted July 1, 2014 Baller Share Posted July 1, 2014 Very impressive @ozski! Yes it is/was a Nautique. Can you identify the approximate vintage? It's a long story that started with it being torn from our houseboat in a Tornado on the first long day of our short summer vacation. It's a sad but happy photo for us. We lost our boat but gained a deeper appreciation for how precious life, love, and family are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kstateskier Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 @OB I feel so bad for you... I flew out of ATL the other day and went right over your site. It looked so sad and lonely. I wish I would have gotten a chance to ski it. Whats the current situation? Is USAWS helping you get your rights back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogboy Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 @skijay, tsc1 hull? Let's try1999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller jhughes Posted July 1, 2014 Baller Share Posted July 1, 2014 @SkiJay I think I see the first gen spray relief pockets which would make it a NWZ hull, based on that kinda pinkish red color I'm going to say 94-96 SN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Marco Posted July 1, 2014 Baller Share Posted July 1, 2014 This is one of the nicer job sites I have worked on. Building my friends house at the lake. It had been cold and blowing almost all of May, and we had hardly skied since the season started. Then, 3 perfect days with warm weather, glass, and no wind. No driver either. I just had to stare at all that nice glass. After the 3 days, when my ski partners were back, the wind started blowing again and we were hard pressed to get much skiing in for a good part of June. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller ScarletArrow Posted July 1, 2014 Baller Share Posted July 1, 2014 @OB @kstateskier I would like to know more about this too... USAWaterski's silence is troubling... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnCox Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 About 0.5 seconds after my left bicep tendon ruptured on Memorial Day... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller colo_skier Posted July 1, 2014 Baller Share Posted July 1, 2014 @OB So does that legally preclude you and a couple of friends from using the lake to ski if you have a boat and are not technically a ski club? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kstateskier Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 @OB this doesn't make much sense to me but it bums me out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Bulldog Posted July 1, 2014 Baller Share Posted July 1, 2014 @OB I hope some sanity returns and you get your club back... "Do Better..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller_ Wish Posted July 1, 2014 Baller_ Share Posted July 1, 2014 @JohnCox ....I forgot about that photo. Really sad. But knowing you, you're pushing hard to get back in the game. Stick with it. You will be back stronger then ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Keith_Menard Posted July 1, 2014 Author Baller Share Posted July 1, 2014 Wow...you guys are really bumming me out. It sucks to lose a day...but man...tornados...blown out arms...I think I need to apologize to the waterski gods for whining about missing the glass! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller SkiJay Posted July 1, 2014 Baller Share Posted July 1, 2014 @OB If you need a favorable precedent against the diminishment of property values argument, you can site the current Isles of Lake Hancock case. Firstly, we used to be surrounded by orange groves, but new home builders have been very successful at selling new homes all around the outside of our two private ski lake community, and none of these enthusiastic new buyers has any legal access to either lake. Secondly, the values of our homes on the lake have been going up as the land around us is developed from orange groves into neighborhoods (which breaks my heart personally). Thirdly, the narrow peninsula between our two lakes was purchased by a home builder with absolutely no water access granted to any of these new home customers either. When I talked to the regional president of Ryland Homes (the builder) about possible issues with these homes having to listen to skiing in close proximity to both sides of their homes all day every day, he said "the buyers don't care." All they want to know is that their views will never be diminished. Ryland is actually marketing these peninsula lots at a healthy premium to the lots that are one block away from the lake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller SkiJay Posted July 1, 2014 Baller Share Posted July 1, 2014 Close @bogboy, but @jhughes is the winner! It was a 1994 NWZ 196. It pulled the Canadian Nationals that year. When my kids were little, they liked that boat so much I couldn't get them out of it, so I named and decaled it "The Playpen." Had it not been sunk in 2007, we'd probably still have it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzcabbage Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 Winter down here in NZ....the Ball of Spray forum is as close as I get to a ski for the next 4 months.. :-( ......here is our current weather forecast.......Rain, Hail or Snow and todays high was 11c near Hamilton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Fatroll Posted July 3, 2014 Baller Share Posted July 3, 2014 My wife waiting for me to get home and pull her footin' on a glassy day. Damn work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Texas6 Posted July 3, 2014 Baller Share Posted July 3, 2014 Awesome pic - she looks pissed - go home and ski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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