"HK" wrote in message
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Calif Bill wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:49:33 -0400, "jamesgangnc"
wrote:

And you wrote an entire paragraph on your use of an outboard for skiing
and
how it was never a problem. Instead you could have just said you
learned to
ski on an outboard. I've watched outboarders doing water sports, it's
obviously a pain. Taking in and out ropes with that stupid floating
bridle
to get them around the engine, give me a break.
Don't they have towers and such on "ski" boats? To get around the
stern problem?

The ski club at Webster lake changed their club boats over from Master
Craft and Centurion to outboard Glastrons - with ETECs. From what I
heard, more power, better fuel economy and more power. :)

Their three boats all have what they call ski towers and stern posts
(ski pylons?) for the tow rigs.

Doesn't seem to bother them much.

And I might be wrong, but I thought that the ski show in Orlando's
Seaworld uses outboards - ETECs actually, don't know the model boat -
or they did at one time - that may have changed.

I also believe that the world's record number of skiers towed was
behind outboards - ETECs in fact.

Hmmmm - I'm sensing a recurring theme here. :)

Hey - what ever floats your boat - get it? Float - boat? :)

But when we learned to ski or skied behind small O/B's there was not a
stern problem. Because we were young and did not realize there was a
problem and also those 14' boats with a 35 hp Johnson did not have a huge
ETEC size motor to get around. I skied behind those small O/B's but
learned behind a Cadillac powered V-drive An about 80 mph boat. My
dad's buddy ran a boat shop for years and raced boats, so was a fast
boat.


I still don't know what the "stern problem" is here. Was it getting the
tow rope caught in the prop? Never happened to us.

You were lucky then. The problem is with all these new highpowered O/B's is
there is little access to the stern. I can see this as a problem with large
center consoles in offshore fishing if the fish runs to the stern. I prefer
Diesel I/B's in large offshore boats.