CT mini: Aug 23-25, 2013

JDD33 wrote: Adam, I'm SURE Samantha did not come home with Sara! She'll have to come next year and be the mascot for the trick run! Thanks again for all the encouragement and the use of the suit! I'm trying to post to vid but all I can hear is you yelling "Drop the ski!!!" "Hips out!!!!" and as I wipe out on my first fall "oooouuuuuccchhh"'..... Thanks Bud its awesome!!!!                                    John

Just happy to contribute to the fun. you know that now you gotta get a boom, right?

Yep... A boom is definetly in the works, and I just missed a bfsuit in the for sale section.
The debate now is do I fit a boom to the mustang or update to a larger Ski Nautique more suited to the task?
We will have to think on that one....

I imagine Mike would make a clamp for whatever size pylon you want. You just have to call. I acquired a boom with a clamp for a 1.25" "pylon" (black pipe).

DFoster wrote: John, I am glad to help here. Just buy a boom to fit my boat, and I will be glad to drag your butt up and down our little lake as much as you want! Oh, and on a separate note, thanks to Brad and Uncle Todd for teaching my kids at the reunion. Thanks to that and them seeing all of the people slaloming (including little Abby), they BOTH have now gotten up deep water slalom starts!

Doug, that's AWESOME!

WOW! That's awesome! There's no stopping those Foster lady's !!!

I'm liking the idea of footn' up and down your lake..... $250 for a used boom plus some mods for the Mustang or $850 for a tower boom, hhmmmm, thinking.....thinking........thinking.......still thinking.......

If I buy the beer,lets get together tear up the lake and talk about it!

JDD33 wrote: If I buy the beer,lets get together tear up the lake and talk about it!

Best idea you've had yet, drink beer, details will work themselves out, haha

I haven't had a chance to look at it yet, as soon as I got back into town I slept for 4 hours and flew to seattle for three days, then went to pittsburgh this weekend for the FSU Pitt game, where, strangely enough I met up with Nautique John and Jeff Swedish...so short story long, its still broke.

Although I think I'm going skiing with behindpropeller on Friday on his boat, so life is good

definitely for storage, I have half a mind to try to fix it myself, although if I do that means it will be headed down for storage and more repair

and trailer springs

JDD33 wrote: Nice pics Joe! Where are you in NY? That lake looks nice and clear! I can see the rocks on the bottom in the pic! Did you have to replace the shaft or were you able to straighten it as you were hoping?

That is Owasco Lake in Auburn, NY – part of the fingerlakes. It is as clear as a bell these days, both because it rarely gets cold enough in the winter to turn over in the spring anymore, and due to the last 20 years of zebra mussels filtering just about every square inch of bottom.   You should put it on your list of places to visit, my house is no Benjamin cottage but it still has a pretty view.

Upon further inspection the shaft had a pretty serious crack under the coupling that was causing the "bend" - not salvageable. Glad I moved it to the bouy and didn't try to run it anymore that weekend. The gas station prop bump didnt help things but was not likely the root cause. So I can feel free to rock the sagging springs on the no prop guard trailer for at least another season.

Hollywood wrote: Or put the axle below

Hell yeah, home-made lift kit! It will make buffing the undercarriage a breeze.

Joe,

I would enjoy coming out and exploring that lake some time! That and get a ride in that rocket of a boat!

in the spring the water won't be the warmest, but as long as its may 1st or later I'm in

JDD33 wrote: Should we let Joe know????

The only reason to give me advance notice is if you need me to be there -if not the key is hanging above the door on the backporch. With the green lakers taking next year off I am hoping to get a bunch of people to head out here in the mid july timeframe next summer to break in the new house. Thats not to say I am not up for some wetsuit season visitors as well - my boat is in the hoist the weekend after whitelake. For that matter it will be be in the hoist at least another month.

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