On 3/26/2019 10:18 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 3/26/19 10:10 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:



Sometimes I yearn for the good old days.Â* Firing up a 50 HP Mercury
"Tower of Power" to go water-skiing with the 16' "run-a-bout".
The smell of the blue, unburned mixed fuel wafting in the air
and the oil slicks in the water at idle.Â* Ah ... those were the
days.

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It's a little hazy, but in my pre-teen days, my dad's buddy who had a
14' Yellow Jacket or something similar with a 25 hp Evinrude taught me
how to water ski. Buddy had a 15' or 16' Lyman, a beautiful boat, with a
Merc something or other, big engine for its time, I think, that really
hauled butt for its day. He could easily pull two skiers.


When I was about 10 or 11 years old my "girl friend" and I used to
waterski behind a 14' Sears aluminum boat with a 5.5 HP Johnson.

Wasn't easy and we used the "dock start" technique with the skier
sitting on the edge of the dock with skis on top of the water.
The boat driver would circle around close by, toss the ski rope and hit
the throttle. We got pretty good at it.


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