Skiing in Current

[twhisper]

Willi running 5@41 in tail current is pretty amazing.

[DanE]

@Sethro ZO use GPS as speed baseline.

Wind and current is irrelevant, it only affects the skier but the boat speed remains the same.

[Horton]

bump for Moomba

[Stevie Boy]

I have skied in current and strong head/tail winds, in my mind, I focus on, keeping my ski moving from left to right and right to left, the only adjustment I make, is on the setup.

[swbca]

@ALPJr Were you by chance free skiing with a water-speed speedometer ? Then the current makes no difference. But 15 years ago was it PP ? does it use the paddle or GPS ?

[Oldkier]

I have a course on the Ohio River with magnets for timing with perfect pass.

General rule of thumb is normal current I set +40 r against and -100 with and adjust for from there.

[ALPJr]

@swbca most of the time it was at the speed set by the skier’s signals to the boat with ? or ? until it felt ?. Some boats had speedo’s but we never paid much attention to them back then.

[harrison_343]

skiing with the current is the equivalent of going slower, so in theory the ski should slow down faster? Or does the current make the ski harder to slow down?

[OREGON85]

I free ski in current frequently. I just set PP by RPM such that the average of the GPS speed up river and down river is what I would ski on still water (eg 34 down river and 30 up river sort of feels like 32 in our 2 MPH current…. sort of). It works pretty well, but up river feels better.

 

The weirdest part is the rapids just before the turn-around spot. It feels VERY different than wind chop of similar size.

[swaterkd]

So I ski where the current hits you at one end of the course and not the other also the current is stronger on one side to the other.

[VONMAN]

Didn't seem to bother Mr. Smith much.

[B_S]

@VONMAN yep, came here to say just ask Nate. He seems to have it figured out.

[ski6jones]

Was his -41 with or against the current?

[ski6jones]

@Gloersen so do you mean there was little to no current being at the change from ebb to flood?