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kpickett

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  • Preferred boat
    1994 Prostar 190
  • Home Ski Site
    Table Rock Lake
  • Real Name
    Kyle Wiley Pickett
  • Ski
    O'brien Elite
  • State
    Missouri
  • Tournament PB
    3@35 - 55k

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  1. I've had one shipped. After checking all the different options, Greyhoud freight was by far the cheapest and easiest. The seller just wrapped the heck out of it in plastic, no box. It made it to me just fine. Cost around $150, if I remember correctly. He dropped it at his local depot. I picked it up at mine. It was pretty fast, too.
  2. @ALPJr Sure thing. Here it is. I really miss that boat.
  3. I tow our Malibu RLXI from Missouri to California every summer. 2000 miles, each way. I tow with a Yukon Denali XL, so it's a big rig towing a tandem axle trailer. It's pretty easy. All the above advice is good. Take it easy on speed. It will be fine. My addition to the above advice - I got a laser thermometer, and every time I get gas, I read the temps on the four bearings on the trailer. It doesn't really matter what the temps are, as long as they are pretty close. If one of the temps is really spiked, then you probably have a problem with that bearing. Gives good peace of mind.
  4. @whitecaps I put it on my Response last spring, so I've gone through a full season with FAE. I put it on for few reasons - my wife and kids are especially sensitive to exhaust smell. They always complain about it, even though the Response exhaust has cats. Also, even though the boat is mostly used for slalom, we do occasionally drop the wedge and surf. Plus, anything that makes the boat quieter is a bit plus for me. I am 100% happy with it. I have noticed no change to the slalom wake. I ski between 22 and 35 off at 34. My wife skis 15 off at 30 mph. The kids have been working their way up the slower speeds. The exhaust is MUCH quieter, and the exhaust smell is pretty much gone. It takes a little getting used to having the pipe back there. The spray feels a little wonky at first, but it just deflects off the platform, and doesn't really affect anything. I haven't noticed any drop in speed, but I never run the boat at wide open throttle. I installed it myself, and it was significantly more difficult than they make it sound, but that's mostly because of the wedge on the Malibu. Let me know if you have other questions. Kyle
  5. No tower. This is the factory deck mounted bimini. I found a couple pictures online that look like it mounts somewhere on the gunwale mid-window. Any pictures would be appreciated.
  6. Hi folks, I picked up an unused factory bimini for my new-to-me 2006 RLXI. Does anyone have pictures and/or measurements of their Response with the factory mounted bimini? I'm looking for the frame and strap mounting points. Thanks in advance. Kyle
  7. Your boat is in beautiful shape. It's worth what someone is willing to pay for it. It really depends on how quickly you want to sell it. I sold my 94 this year. I had it priced on the higher side, and a bunch of people on here said it was insane to ask what I was asking. I had a bunch of inquiries that went nowhere, and then suddenly, two people wanted to buy it the same week, and I got my asking price. I think you can get 10 to 11k for that boat, if you're willing to be patient.
  8. To follow up - I swapped pucks, and everything went completely back to normal. It's working perfectly again. I guess that puck is defective, or wore out, or something. I mapped the course with the defective puck, and I now realize that it saved the wrong coordinates. Strange, but easily fixable.
  9. I talked to Mark at PP - he's always really helpful with tech questions. I'm going to check the GPS wires on the pigtail to the engine controls and also try swapping out the pucks. Before I do any of that, I'll just try to run it again to see if it had to do with global GPS issues. He said it's pretty rare for a GPS puck to go bad.
  10. I can't remember when I switched to Star Gazer. I think it was around 2010 or 2011. That's probably the age of the puck.
  11. I plan to call PP tomorrow morning, because they are always really helpful, but I wanted to see if anyone has dealt with this problem before. I run Star Gazer 9.0 with Zbox on a DBW Malibu RLXI. It has been dialed in and working perfectly for me for 5 months. Yesterday, it went nuts on me. It wouldn't GPS lock for a while (where the course is, and we use it regularly). It finally locked on, but then the speed went up and down like crazy. Then it would lose signal again. Finally got it locking on, and it just wouldn't hold speed, in trick and slalom mode. I did a system reset - no help. I unplugged the GPS puck from the Zbox and plugged directly into the master module. That seemed to help it get a signal, but the engine kept ramping up and down. I plugged Zbox back in, and it smoothed that out, but it wouldn't hold speed. I finally put it into classic mode, so I could ski, but it intermittently lost the course. I'm guessing that maybe the GPS puck went bad. Does that happen? I've got another working puck on my other boat. I may swap them out to see if that's the problem. Anyone else confront this problem?
  12. The course at Little Cow is really narrow (at least it was last time I skied it). Not really good as a course, but it makes you feel like a really great skier! The one on the James river near Hideaway is really only good super early in the morning. It's in a heavy traffic area. The one on the James river north of Cape Fair (it's really up around the corner from Bridgeport) is owned by my buddy. It's in an ok place. There's not a lot of boat traffic, but when a boat goes by you have to wait 15 minutes for the water to settle down. It's a well maintained course - perfectly straight. We always welcome other skiers up there. It's a long way from Big Cedar, though. I don't know the other two.
  13. We just brought the boat back to Missouri. I'm willing to negotiate on the price if anyone is interested. I'd be happiest if this boat went to a slalom skier.
  14. I bought a new boat this year. I had decided to keep my 94 190, so we towed it out to northern California for the month. I still love this boat, but I'm having doubts about keeping two boats across the country from each other. Here's the listing: Prostar on SIA If you want an amazing slalom boat for a really good price, here's a beautiful one. I'm planning to tow it back to MO, starting on Saturday. I know there were a couple west coasters interested in the boat, so here's your chance. Make me a reasonable offer before Saturday that saves me towing it back across the country. Or, meet me along I80 or I70. Shoot me a text or call if interested. 417-837-9422 Kyle
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