Lieutenant Dan

@MatadorMaine How much of the Teak Sealer is needed to do two coats? Where did you buy it? Thanks.

Dane or Cole McCormick?

@m_pags I hope to be able to check this out when we are down in Sarasota area from early March to early April! Thanks for posting this!

@Slaloman https://towerbiminis.com/

@SkipGundlachLink to trailer in Wisconsin below 📸 Look at this post on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/share/RH711oPbYCQt8wD4/?mibextid=79PoIi

@SkipGundlach Being down with a sinus infection for the last couple of days I’ve spent some time looking around Facebook Marketplace for used Reponses or Nautique 196s. While doing that I have noticed quite a few Malibu VLXs of that vintage for sale. If that’s the boat you want there are lots out there to choose from and certainly some have trailers. That being said, there is a 2021 Malibu trailer for sale up in Wisconsin or Minnesota that I saw as well.

Interesting comment by @unksskis regarding the cost / economy impacting watersports and skiing. I do a fair amount of skiing on Norris Lake in TN every summer. Last year we noted that there seemed to be a significant number of people waterskiing (especially slaloming) and that there seemed to be a steep drop off in the number of surfing barges. Perhaps the price of boat gas was the straw that broke the camel’s back on top of the cost of the boat, tow vehicle, etc. for the wakesurfing crowd. It was encouraging to see that more people were skiing and were out behind more reasonable boats.

+1 here

I saw Nate Smith’s father do gates like that on every pass probably 18 years ago while skiing at a local tournament here in the Cincinnati area. He also back-sided every ball. You could hear him hit every one going down the course: wop…wop…wop

@MISkier is correct. One of my ski partners has a 2003 196 limited like the OP and it was converted to ZO a number of years ago. I can’t recall what exactly needed to be done but @Jody_Seal would know…

That’s a great warmup. It’s too bad the music is so overpowering, I’d love to hear her instructions a bit better

@aupatking There’s great stuff in this thread by the Adams about how to swing and edge change early. Worth a thorough read…

The Denali “Adams” have some great advice regarding how they achieve swing and early edge change (includes standing up early and pointing the ski down the lake) in the “Connection and Swing” thread from fall of 2019. I brought it forward recently if you scroll down a bit you’ll find this thread

Someone else recently remarked in another thread that they were looking for this thread and couldn’t find it. Here it is.

@drew Bergman?