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Maybe add the latest Google Earth Ski Site link if it is still available, or whatever supercedes it if something new is available. I very quickly searched this site for it recently and didn't find it

Just last week I bought a 1979 True Tournament Ski Nautique, for $1500.00 from SW Florida. My plan was to cut it up and use it for parts for the 27' wooden boat that I am building. The only problem is the 1979 boat has too much life left in it to cut it up and use it for parts. I went skiing behind it last Sunday and it is great. I registered it on Friday and am now going through it to see what needs to be done to it to keep it alive. I am excited that I can be skiing again right away, and I can begin to chat on here more. I am disassembling and going to scrap the *@#$#@%$@#ing Bayliner that I used to ski behind. After I save up more money I might have to look for a ??Fourth?? boat that direct drive and is in even worse condition to use for parts or look for good deals on each drivetrain part as I need it. If you want to see some more pictures of the wooden boat I am building and some friends boats check out Michaels page with my boat on it at: https://michaelsmaddox.wordpress.com/2022/09/25/glen-l-calypso/ I should make a blog documenting this stuff, but I am too busy working at my real job, or actually working on the boat, and now will even be skiing a lot too. -Ryan

No that wasn't me. I drove myself nuts thinking about if I should get it, but I ultimately decided that the timing wasn't right for me. We are working on taking care of things that prevented me from getting this one, so hopefully we can jump on the next one. -Ryan

Hey Wish, I don't know whether to thank you or cuss at you. That boat is exactly what I am looking for at the moment, but I have so much stuff on my plate right now and I am trying to pay off a ton of crap so I can have time and money be a better waterskier. I keep debating about if I should go down there and look at it. I think I will try to go down there and look at it this weekend unless some other sucker buys it before then. Is that one of Chip DeBus's old boats? Cheers Ryan

If the water is warm enough that you don't need the wetsuit, I would try it without the wetsuit. I miss more deepwater starts when I use any wetsuit because I can't get tucked as tight at the beginning of the pull.

The files can be found on Thingiverse as: Water Ski Wing by Riplash June 22, 2021. I included the STL file as well as the DXF file, and a Sketchup File if you want to change the dimensions or design. I will probably draw it in Fusion360 too sometime in the future. I ran out of time to get pictures, but I will upload pictures as soon as I can. Let me know if everything looks okay, as this is first upload to Thingiverse. -Ryan

I will put the files on thingiverse today or tonight and let you know what I call it.

Does anybody have a 3 view of one, or know how much larger than a standard wing it is? I have 3D printed standard size wings out of PETG and ABS. I can share the DXF or STL if you want. Ryan

Intermittant misfires can be difficult to diagnose. My boat and a friends boat did the same thing yours is doing. It turned out to be an ignition coil. When it was cool, the boats would run fine, but when the ignition coil got warm, it gradually quit working right, and it would misfire. When the coil cooled off it would run normally. -Ryan

@theboardingschool. I don't know if that one will hold wakeboards or not, but I can make you a simliar one that will and deliver it, in exchange for a Slalom set for me and a Combo lesson set for Marta. Ryan in Melbourne, FL

Hey, I used to ski on a 2005 Obrien World team Slalom. I free ski a ton,but I am trying to learn the course whenever I can get access to one. 1 year ago I bought an H.O. Omni with the fixed fin on the back. It is completely different ski--a lot better. The World team is very very stable which is fine if you want to go straight, but not very good if you want to turn. Before I bought the Omni, I put the fin all the way forward, and moved the bindings way back from stock, and it was better...... but the Omni is way better The Omni turns very easy. I haven't had many chances to run the Omni through the course yet, but the few I have it is so much better. It is also so much less tiring free skiing too. So I would buy the Omni, or one of it's comparable competitors like the Radar Union Jack. I would make sure that people have run whatever ski you buy through the course recently, and that would rule out the Obrien World Team. Good Luck. Rip

Have you considered loading Linux on the old computer? You could run updated web browsers, and that would let you get more use out of the old machine.

Hey Mastercrafter, I think all of the skis you mentioned and have will work for you. You just need to pick one of them to do a majority of your skiing on. And work on setting up whatever ski you choose to work for you. In my opinion, setting the ski up for you is way more important than all the differences in the course skis you mentioned. Skiing on a course ski that isn't properly set up is just terrible. Just my opinion. Ryan "Rip" Lash

@9400. They will be Saltwater crab traps. Dragon Point is about 25 miles north of Sebastian inlet and about 20 miles south of Port Canaveral. So it is Saltwater, but it is not as salty as parts of the Indian River closer to the inlets. We put our boat in about a mile up the Eau Gallie River, and that has Freshwater, and saltwater fish in it as well as the occasional Alligator too.

Hey Ghutch, I am in Melbourne, Florida and I can vouch that it is no man's land for skiing. It takes me about 55 minutes to get to The Boarding School regardless of traffic. The time it takes to get to ski places in more central Orlando depends on Traffic. Sometimes it is just an Hour sometimes it takes a lot longer. This last week I have been making 26 fake crab/ pinfish traps and I am working on a method to rapidly install 22 of them in a pattern about 259m long with some more trap markers 55m further out. My goal was to have them installed by the 29th because I have some friends and family in town that weekend that could drive the boat for us. I will be out of town on Monday the 24th and Tuesday the 25 for work, but I hope I can have the crab traps(course) installed by the 27th. For anybody that knows the water around Melbourne, the crab traps are going to appear in the Indian River next to Merritt Island Just north of Dragon point. I don't know if I will be able to leave 26 bouys out there or only have a few to mark the course and attach others easily. @Ghutch I will send you a pm with my contact info soon. But keep in mind even if I get the course in, I am just a wally skier trying to learn the course with a sterndrive boat, not a direct drive. -Cheers, Ryan "Rip" Lash

There is the South River Ski Club in Annapolis MD. There website is http://southriverskiclub.net/. Also check out Severn River Ski Club at http://severnriverskiclub.org/ I lived about 15 miles from these places for 4 years, and 60 miles from them for 3 years before that and I didn't know anything about them. I found out about them about 4 weeks before I moved from Annapolis to Florida... I wish I knew about them a long time before that. -Rip

I think the best way for you to find your place here in Florida is to invistigate places as best you can online, and then check those places out when you are down here. One cool thing about being near Orlando is that you can be relatively close to Orlando yet you could live out in the sticks,, in the Swampy areas, or in small hills around Clermont, suburbs, the City of Orlando, or you may find a cool combination of all of those. There are so many different types of places you could live, It would be hard for me suggest any without. In terms of waterskiing. Here in the Melbourne/Space coast area, other than Stillwater lakes we have to drive close to Orlando or Palm Beach for "structured" water ski stuff. -Ryan

I just figured out why it is supposed to be cold (cold for Floridians) on Friday and Saturday here in Florida--Travis scheduled another BBB. Sounds like it will be fun again, but we already have committments and can't make it to this event, but looking forward to the Spring BBB and the other cool events.

Bassfooter, I think you should give it a try. But start at the level you described in your first post, just getting over the ramp, and see about going further or harder at your own pace after you master just getting over the ramp. Bruce_Butterfield wrote "Then intentionally jump the wakes and try to land on your head and see how it feels." and later Horton wrote " We pretty much followed the method described above by Butterfield". --- That sure explains a lot things about Horton. Ryan

@ErikBerghiller How warm is the water, and how cold is the Air during the night? If the water is a few degrees above freezing could you use a battery pump to pump warm lake water through a hose into and out of the doghouse? Or leave the boat in the water?

@BraceMaker, I like your idea of a 3 degree shim. It reminds me of stacking 30 -60-90 and 45 degree drafting triangles to get angles in 15 degree incriments. I don't have a wing on my fin yet, but I will probably print a set out with a 3 degree guide when I do put the wing back on. Ryan

Are you including the Jokers or just 52 cards?

My guess is that the tracking fin got hung up in the gate bouy line. The fin is far enough forward and far below the Center of gravity and Center of bouyancy that a tug on the fin could cause the boat to nose over like that and submarine. To me it looks like the prop is still providing propwash after it resurfaces and heads to boats left. The ballpark breaking strength for 1/4" hollow braid polypropelene is 850#. I am curious if there is any evidence of a line strike on the tracking fin. But these are just my educated guesses. -Ryan

Is it possible to get one lift that can lift and store 2 boats?

I am not a serious tournament skier, but I would want speed control for this reason: Some of the people who drive for Marta and myself can't keep it within 5 mph of a the set speed. It isn't a matter of being hard to accomplish, they just don't pay attention to the speed. So easy to use speed control would be nice for just non tournament skiers. I would hate to be behind them in their cars if their cruise control breaks.