swbca

Great! thanks alot . . I don't know the difference between GoPro models . . what would be the best option to work with your APP ?

I don't recall if it was posted on BOS in the past, but I read about iPhone users disabling the mechanical stabilization with a small rare earth magnet near the lens. Has anyone here done that ?

Do you have a slalom video that you could post here ? Specifically, Where ZOOM is set to have a 6' adult skier fill around 1/3 of the height of the video frame at 35 off when he is upright at the wake. And showing that the skier doesn't ski out of the frame at 35-38 off when zoomed as above. This zoom spec approximately simulates a 50mm equivalent "normal" lens on an SLR. Not the usual way-to-wide angle seen on old GoPro videos. I have been using an old android phone on SkiDoc. There is no vibration problem and Individual frames are great quality, but the "rope shake" with short line skiers is bad. Looking for an improvement on the stabilization of rope shake. I just tried the Selfie camera on an iPhone-XS zoomed at 1.5 and every frame is soft-focus. Not good enough. Ready to switch to GoPro if it looks good at the 50mm-equivelent described above. Thanks

Saving your ZOOM setting when minimized is currently a feature exclusive to PylonCam Pro. -Wakeye on iPhone loses your ZOOM when minimized -Wakeye on Android loses your ZOOM when minimized (tested on Galaxy S22 and S7 -iPhone native camera loses your ZOOM when minimized -Android native camera loses your ZOOM when minimized So PylonCam Pro didn't just inherit this characteristic from the iPhone, its unique to PylonCam Pro APP. Many skiers have a phone dedicated to their Pylon Videos. So even if you have an Android phone, you could buy a used iPhone on ebay for your skiing. It avoids the complication of having your phone usage getting tangled up with your ski outings. Of course they could probably get the ZOOM save feature on an Android if they get to it, but its a big effort for a small market. Steve the developer had to do this out of the "love" for high achievement.

I tested it and I see the zoom value survives when you put the app in the background. Until today, I have been using an Android phone with Wakeye and it didn't preserve the zoom value when minimized. That feature of the iPhone and your new app pretty much solves the problem. I can set all the values of that app in our kitchen before I head for the lake and they will be ready when we start the app from background when we start skiing. No worries about trying to do it in bright sun without my reading glasses 🙂 Thanks this is a great improvement !

Would it be possible to have the zoom level be a saved value ? When out on the lake in the sun its hard to setup the app, or for your driver to verify settings in the sun if you are already in the lake. We lost getting good videos sometimes with wakeye because someone touched the phone screen while changing rope length. I can understand why saving zoom level might be difficult but it would be a nice feature.

We had the earliest "ICE_OUT" in 70 years. So we put in our dock with plans to ski April 1. This was this morning and 6 more inches of snow are expected today. Steve Nelson, our local M9 current world trick champion has been skiing for 2 weeks. He had to buy a new Nautique to practice for the last world tournament. I have his old Master Craft still safe in a heated garage.

Ski Boat Owners, be careful not to operate your Ski Boat like a Wake Boat too close to shore. This is behind our 2004 ProStar. Two family members in the back seat for ballast.

My only problem with the Titanium or most other skis is me. The washer is something I have never tried to see if it would help on either side. I just found it was MISkier's post where I saw this detail first. Always up for testing an idea ? Thanks

As long as there aren't DEI activists that insist on and promote gender confusion among our children in sports.

Master Craft advertised the 1986 Pro Star as the first NO WAKE slalom boat. The 86 was the first year with the Rainbow Graphics. I bought one because I had just had meniscus surgery on both knees from 10 years of skiing behind Nautiques. The 86 wake was like a flat bottom race boat. It also turned like a race boat. It turned with G's and no roll at speed. Everyone now says it had terrible tracking but I didn't know better at the time.

@The_MS I believe you made a comment somewhere about putting a small washer under the center screw on one side of the fin block. I understood that would slightly reduce the fin area on that side but not the other. I don't recall if you said that helped your on-side or your off-side. IF you are RFF which side did put the washer ? Thanks

I drilled a hole near the prop with a tube extending above the waterline. Please explain this. Any hole drilled -in the hull- near the prop would be a hole below or behind the fuel tank. I have no plans to copy your idea, but curious about what you did. I knocked down the prop wash on a 2004 ProStar with a replica of the Nautique Hydrogate. I quit using it because was a waste of fuel.

I've been thinking about the "common solution" you describe above for a month.

@Horton Thanks for the North American Moomba schedule. It prints out first 5 columns into 5 pages with no formatting effort . . . Very Helpful