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Drive down to my buddy's house to pickup the boat from winter storage A couple of days in the driveway to make sure all systems are go (might need a new steering cable) Do a few sets of open water skiing (got some new bindings to evaluate) Raise the course, clean off the buoys, check the complete system Then daily 6:30 AM passes with hot coffee in the boat with plenty of friends Not a bad life

Darn it. Waited for years to get into that club but moved from Farmington Hills. 😞

The example given was a wake boat out in the middle of the lake (1,000' in distance) and watching your docked boat rise and fall almost equal to the wave height generated. I remember doing a similar story problem in Calculus, but that was a long time ago and I only got a B in the class. I do know that our solution was to install rocks in front of our seawall. The initial wave approaching would still raise our pontoon 3-4 feet, but the waves never reached the seawall to amplify and bounce back. Problem solved.

Wake Sport Mode? I'm on a private lake in MI and we've had two votes in recent years about limiting Wake/Surf boats. It's failed both times since the Association board uses similar, nefarious meanings and shore limits (as Rep. Julie Rogers). At the last meeting, one resident pointed out that assigning a certain distance from shore doesn't change the wave energy reaching the shoreline. It just takes a bit longer from 500 feet compared to 150. I get up early in the morning for smooth water, but I realize that we all share the same water on our All Sports Lake and there are other avenues to make everyone happy.

Excellent points. Ultimately, the free market will decide. Not Govt. agencies.

Love it. Similar to my conversations when I'm on my BMW motorcycle and someone in a BMW says, "I didn't know they made bikes". And I'll reply, "I didn't know they made cars".

you're having a conversation with a stranger and you mention skiing. And they say, "oh, I love downhill skiing". And you reply, "did they just invent that?"

I've been using a Power Vest for about five years and really love it. If the glove length is adjusted just right, you really don't know you're using it AND it takes a huge load off your arms, elbows and lower back when you engage the vest and want to just ski. Hard to explain the actual dynamics but while you're skiing I notice that I just need medium fingertip pressure to hold onto the rope and the pull is more of a feeling that you're getting pulled through the legs and hips and less of your arms. Hope that helps.

Good advice. I do pullups and chinups each day and was starting to have the same issue.

Last winter I spent a lot of time in the gym focusing on Dead Lifts. Not doing crazy amounts of weight, but getting comfortable with the range of motion. I was injury free all summer, skiing at least once/day from mid April, but did pull my back, the last set of the season. 😞

Resolve the issue of lower back pain when doing multiple deep water starts each day. New workout routine should help. Zero lower back pain issues last year until last day at Ski school where the last start did me in. Lots of new people on the lake who want to ski our course, so make a point to interact with them in the Spring to get them involved.

Tell the guy to breathe 25% less air a day. Make him do his part to reduce his CO emissions.

I figured now was the time to get rid of my two left feet and do some surgery. so yes, the season's over.

I have Faria gauges on my 2002 MB Sports and the LCD hour meter is also embedded in the tach. Until it hit 1,000 hours, it only displayed three digits (999). I had the same question as you. When it hit 1,000 hours, it displayed the fourth digit and and currently displays 1047. It should display the fourth digit once it rolls over.

One of our skiers installed this on his boat. None of us could see the splashes, but to be fair, we didn't do a precise calibration.