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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
  15. @Horton I get it, but the language of "counts" or "doesn't count" definitely contributes to a culture of insiders and outsiders. That culture definitely exists in waterskiing, especially in my experience with tournament waterskiing, and even on your board - where I know you go out of your way to welcome newcomers. I was able to do some tournaments a few years back, and my practice PB and tournament PB happen to be the same. That was the time when there was the biggest hue and cry about Zero Off, and as someone who practices with PP, I was once again an outsider, and it made me uninterested in competing. I did have access to a great club with perfect training conditions, though. Then, I moved across the country to a place with no private lakes. I've got a buddy who maintains a course on public water, and I'm damn lucky to have access to that. It's taken me three years to get back to my practice PB, and it is way harder to achieve on public water than on a private lake. So, for me, it "counts." Now, I'm not going to compare my PB with anybody else's PB. I follow every thread about tournaments, and why people do or don't go. In my head, every year I think I'm going to do them, but the reality is that "stepping up to certify my score" has got to be at the very bottom of the list of reasons I might go. With a young family, and really limited lake time, I think what would allow me to go would be a tournament with activities for kids. If the family just has to sit around all day, there's just no way it's going to happen for me.
  16. I've got to say @Horton , having talked to a few of my buddies who don't ski tourneys, saying that what we do doesn't count doesn't really make us want to join the club.
  17. Maybe they heard practice scores don't count. :)
  18. I'm a symphony conductor, and my orchestra season theme for this year is "Extreme Symphony." We had some fun shooting tv commercials today. This may be a first in the classical music world. I thought it would be hard to make the start in a tux, but the hardest part was skiing without gloves!
  19. @Nautibynature - yours is beautiful, too. Does yours have the LT-1? Looks like we have the same interior.
  20. I've loved this boat since the day I bought it in 2004. It has the LT-1 and Z-box. Sad to say, it will be for sale as soon as I find a 197 to replace it.
  21. @lundberg @DooSPX - I believe that the spray mods are still in the category of rumor. I had been told that they were on the 94 ProTour model, but I got my hands on a couple of those, and they are identical to my 94 ProStar. I've since been told that the mods were done to the Budweiser Tour boats in 94, but I haven't been able to find one of those to compare with. @Horton - I put Zbox on my 94 Prostar with the LT1. It skis really, really close to Zero Off. Granted, I'm making cracks at 35, not 39, but I definitely feel the difference at the gate and in the pull. I know people have different luck with Zbox, but I think that the LT1 is such a strong engine for the size/weight of the 94 that it mimics pretty well the ZO pull. As other posters have mentioned, Zbox takes fiddling with to get it set up right, but once you do, it's pretty great.
  22. Reminds me of the old Wetbikes. I always wanted one of those.
  23. @brody - I am actually really grateful that my buddy maintains a course on our lake. At least we get to ski it, and it's pretty good for the kids at slower speed. I had been working on 35 off at 34, but with the rollers on open water, I just feel like I can't advance at all, and it's frustrating. My wife feels like our kids won't really be able to compete with kids who train on private sites.
  24. @brody - Well, I'm told this year was unusual, but a couple weeks after the course was in, the floods came and ripped all the buoys off. Then we went to put the buoys back out, and the floods came again. Then we put in a portable course, and the debris made the lake impossible to navigate. Since then, the launch ramps have been under water. You're a better skier than I am, but I feel like I can't "train" when the conditions are so inconsistent. You can get a few good sets in, but I wouldn't call it training. This is a real question, because my wife and I have been discussing whether it's worth trying to have our kids compete - does anyone have any statistics about how many folks competing at the regional or national level train on public vs. private water?
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