Really Cool, Boat Manouvre

[Stevie Boy]

As a avid fan of the Wilson Bros, I was viewing some of their videos, check out the boat driving at the end of this vid, skier input also required.

 

[Stevie Boy]

Ah! line attached to the Tower, wondering how they got that to work.

[oldjeep]

Definitely not the same run at the beginning and end of the vid ;)

[E_T]

you can do around the boat without a tower. it just takes a driver with balls...

[oldjeep]

And a boat without a bimini top sticking up

[kstateskier]

If you took every one of WB Minute Mondays and put them together you'd have alot of cool videos of some incredible skiing. I continue to be impressed by these two.

[estrom]

It took a couple of days of trial and error to figure out speed, boat path, etc... but I was the boat driver and could get my friend on a kneeboard to get all the way around the boat and continue on without stopping. He took some spectacular spills during the trial and error part!

 

Of note, this was a low profile O/B, similar to a barefoot sanger, sans the windshield.

 

[ntx]

Really is a pretty easy trick. We did around the boats 35 years ago. Almost every show team or performance at sea world did them.

[andjules]

+1 what @ntx said

Classic, basic show skiing manoevre. Although usually performed (and a lot easier) on jump skis, and with a windshield-less outboard with tall pylon.

[Edbrazil]

Moomba used to do a 4-man around the boat 20+ years back. Lots of crashes while they were perfecting it.

Hmmm...one side of that SL course sure looks close to shore.

[ForrestGump]

We used to do around the the boats in a 93 Mastercraft. Stupid easy on jump skis. Not so easy on a slalom.

[bbirlew]

Can't see the vid on my iPhone, but I used to go around the boat on a trick ski with a 89(?) supra comp back in the early 90s.

Lots of fun!

[Drago]

Used to break out the dick popes for that. Late 70s

[A_B]

'77 SN - driver or passenger helped lift rope up over windshield.

[Zman]

We used to do this late in the late 80's with one slalom skier going one way and one the other way. Trick was for the passenger to give one rope a quick lift as it slid over the windshield. Pretty easy trick really. I was one of the skiers, but I think the tougher learning curve was for the driver (and for us to survive until he got it right).