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My pet peeve are the ones spending the equivalent amount of money as for a house and quibbling and questioning whether they should spend the extra thou on some gadget option on it. Just get it with everything! You're already spending a fortune. It's a luxury toy. Sparing that thou will barely make a difference in the overall expenditure. Get over it.

I used to always just anchor. Then I discovered whips. Stern out. When the neighbor came back with a surfer in tow and slowed and turned, the pushed wake washed over the back of my boat into the inside. One boat lift later I couldn't be happier. No more wave action wearing through chains (another neighbor very nicely pulled the boat back out to the anchor from shore after a chain link wore through). No more having to go out and get it and put it back. No more worrying about the boat getting swamped. No more bathtub ring.

I've been having issues. Wrote about it on correctcraftfan. Replaced the coil. Done. Simple automotive version found just about anywhere. I haven't run it much since though. I also replaced the 10 buck relays just because.

skibrain has my comment. I also used a snowmobile trailer. But it was too wide. I got a permit to haul it. Had to flag each corner. Learned afterwards that you're even supposed to get permits for towns you're going through. And from pick-up to drop-off. No stopping in between. Piffle. One permit was enough red tape for me. For some reason, hauling this thing ... sucked... gas. I even ran out and coasted down a hill into a gas station. It was a 4 hour haul.

@DangerBoy: I think it would be a regulatory nightmare trying to piece such rules together to satisfy everybody. There's just no way. I have to think that you can't possibly be being realistic on that. It's public water. I wouldn't want some other user group carving out their own preferential times on a public lake so I can't expect it for my own wishes. All users want to carve glass on whatever stick they prefer. And then there's enforcement. There are laws for towing after dark though. Unless these people are just tooling around out there in the dark not towing with their music blasting. Some people just have no clue nor respect of the existence of the other 8 billion people on the planet.

@FLeboeuf : I did. No response. Nothing. Maybe I should send again. I gave them sample text for the reg too, not just yeah hey how about a mirror.

@FLeboeuf: Well gosh darn gee willickers...um...I knew I was right. I wouldn't have said it if I didn't know it was right. (it seems ? ) But hey thanks for confirming. :)

Thanks @MS.

Thanks for that @aspski.

A couple mentions of hockey here. So what's the "hand" in holding a hockey stick? MS said shoot from left. Is that right high, left low, stick out to the left? That's how I hold a hockey stick. Which "hand" is that? I'm motor-skills right and LFF.

@FLeboeuf : There were 2 crimes. Towing without a spotter and towing after dark. Both have been removed (as of the 17th). The spotter one still exists in Transport Canada regulations. But it's not a crime there. I didn't look for the after dark one in Transport Canada. I'm fine with it if it's still there. But neither are a crime as of the 17th. So if jayski is all gung ho on things, maybe he could add lobbying to his list. I will be sending something to the Minister of Transport suggesting my idea after the 17th.

Ok. I'll say something. I don't know if anyone is aware of this but next Wednesday the 17th it will no longer be a CRIME to tow someone without a spotter. Yeah...that 17th. It still remains a regulatory offense though. I'd like to see that changed to like what many jurisdictions in the states have as allowing a mirror OR a spotter. As it is now we need a spotter.

@skimtb : I had a look at one of those air bag lifts. It appears to need some kind of mat or something to protect it from the gear. But that was just one brand. I stopped looking. I used to use whips. They worked great. Then came the surfers. Like someone else wrote where they got water over the bow. I preferred bow in so I had over-the-transom washes. The "euro" rear of the NWZ didn't help either. Not fun. Now I'm on a lift. Couldn't be happier watching the rollers come in and seeing my boat high and dry.

skimtb: I seem to recall (so I didn't look now) that the front fins, prop and rudder are kinda in the way. I seem to think there's a term for all the under water stuff in marine-speak but it fails me now. :)

Keep in mind that the authorities, just about wherever you are in the world, are all over regulating these things due to idiots flying them idiotically. Get caught or complained on a fine could be pretty hefty.