Its a tough ski to categorize I will swear up and down how stinking fun it is to ride. But I don't use mine at all behind the ski boat.
And that's because if the lake is calm we have 2 ski boats we divide up and go skiing, if the lake is rough we have a pontoon and we load that up with people and go out on the lake. In the first during the times of day that the lake is accessible I'm going to use the water to take a set and ski, and pull guests skiing (for which we use the hovercraft quite a bit) but once that wraps up for the day and the lake starts to get choppy the hovercraft goes on the pontoon and in ways it is just about as fun to rip back and forth behind the pontoon as it is to rip back and forth behind the ski boat.
If someone can ever make a pontoon track its a perfect choppy water event, and similar to slippery slalom on a trick ski something very unique about the hovercraft is that you do get forced into fundamental line management.