Some people think these are great and some think they are a waste of money
to mount on an outdrive or outboard. Vote to use or not use on a pontoon
boat for waterskiing?

http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs...tNum=&classNum

"Mike Slater" wrote in message
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Some people think these are great and some think they are a waste of money
to mount on an outdrive or outboard. Vote to use or not use on a pontoon
boat for waterskiing?

http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs...tNum=&classNum

They are to help a boat get up on plane. Sort of like trim tabs. I do not
think they will help at all on a pontoon boat.

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On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:35:43 -0700, "Calif Bill"
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"Mike Slater" wrote in message
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Some people think these are great and some think they are a waste of
money
to mount on an outdrive or outboard. Vote to use or not use on a
pontoon
boat for waterskiing?

http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs...tNum=&classNum

They are to help a boat get up on plane. Sort of like trim tabs. I do
not
think they will help at all on a pontoon boat.


I agree. I nave never seem it and we have a bunch of pontoon boats
here. Pontoons are really not that good a ski boat since they are
pretty slow to come up on the step. We do have a lot of folks dragging
around tubes tho.

OK. I have a 60hp motor and my friends want to waterskii but the boat I
have is what I have. I told them the same things. Thanks guys.

Mike

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:27:27 GMT, "Mike Slater"
wrote:

I agree. I nave never seem it and we have a bunch of pontoon boats
here. Pontoons are really not that good a ski boat since they are
pretty slow to come up on the step. We do have a lot of folks dragging
around tubes tho.

OK. I have a 60hp motor and my friends want to waterskii but the boat I
have is what I have. I told them the same things. Thanks guys.

You might be able to ski anyway if you can find a pair of longer,
wider skiis somewhere. It might also help to go with a lower pitched
prop.

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:29:59 -0400, wrote:

OK. I have a 60hp motor and my friends want to waterskii but the boat I
have is what I have. I told them the same things. Thanks guys.

You might be able to ski anyway if you can find a pair of longer,
wider skiis somewhere. It might also help to go with a lower pitched
prop.

I have a 60 on a pontoon boat with a 14 7/8 x11 prop
I wouldn't want to ski behind it.

Certainly not the ski boat of choice, everyone would agree. On the
other hand you can ski behind almost anything that will get on plane
if the skiis are big enough and the skiier is something less than NFL
linebacker material.

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:29:59 -0400, wrote:

OK. I have a 60hp motor and my friends want to waterskii but the boat I
have is what I have. I told them the same things. Thanks guys.

You might be able to ski anyway if you can find a pair of longer,
wider skiis somewhere. It might also help to go with a lower pitched
prop.

I have a 60 on a pontoon boat with a 14 7/8 x11 prop
I wouldn't want to ski behind it.

Certainly not the ski boat of choice, everyone would agree. On the
other hand you can ski behind almost anything that will get on plane
if the skiis are big enough and the skiier is something less than NFL
linebacker material.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Sg-2dlQHY

I love how he plays with the water with his/her trunk.

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:41:05 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:29:59 -0400, wrote:

OK. I have a 60hp motor and my friends want to waterskii but the boat I
have is what I have. I told them the same things. Thanks guys.

You might be able to ski anyway if you can find a pair of longer,
wider skiis somewhere. It might also help to go with a lower pitched
prop.

I have a 60 on a pontoon boat with a 14 7/8 x11 prop
I wouldn't want to ski behind it.

Certainly not the ski boat of choice, everyone would agree. On the
other hand you can ski behind almost anything that will get on plane
if the skiis are big enough and the skiier is something less than NFL
linebacker material.

I wouldn't want to ski behind anything less than this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLMOdhce-Pk

Steve

In article ,
says...

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:29:59 -0400, wrote:

OK. I have a 60hp motor and my friends want to waterskii but the boat I
have is what I have. I told them the same things. Thanks guys.

You might be able to ski anyway if you can find a pair of longer,
wider skiis somewhere. It might also help to go with a lower pitched
prop.

I have a 60 on a pontoon boat with a 14 7/8 x11 prop
I wouldn't want to ski behind it.

Certainly not the ski boat of choice, everyone would agree. On the
other hand you can ski behind almost anything that will get on plane
if the skiis are big enough and the skiier is something less than NFL
linebacker material.

Unless that little fellow just can't seem to get up on the skis...
Sigh...

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On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:39:51 GMT, "Mike Slater"
wrote:

Some people think these are great and some think they are a waste of money
to mount on an outdrive or outboard. Vote to use or not use on a pontoon
boat for waterskiing?

http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs...tNum=&classNum

Worthless. I took the one that was installed on my son't 26' pontoon
('70 Johnson two stroke) and the performance was much better.

On Aug 24, 7:00*am, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:39:51 GMT, "Mike Slater"
wrote:

Some people think these are great and some think they are a waste of money
to mount on an outdrive or outboard. *Vote to use or not use on a pontoon
boat for waterskiing?

http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs...ductReviewView...

Worthless. *I took the one that was installed on my son't 26' pontoon
('70 Johnson two stroke) and the performance was much better.

When I swapped out the lower leg on my Alpha 1, I didn't re-install
the fin. and honestly i can't tell that it made a difference in the
steering, but the boat seems to plane easier.