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1998Nautique 
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 Topic: Shallow StartsPosted: February-14-2006 at 4:37pm |
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How Shallow of water can you start pulling a skier?
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bkhallpass
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Posted: February-14-2006 at 8:36pm |
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As shallow as you can run the boat. See the green lake thread where some of the guys are talking about sliding on their behinds across the beach to start a barefoot run.
Now to safely pull a skier, I don't like less than 6 feet in open water, or less than 4 feet in a private lake where I know there are no obstacles, etc. on the bottom. Just my personal preferences. BKH |
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Tim D
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Posted: February-15-2006 at 6:08am |
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When you say skier, what kind of ski do you refer? A skier on a wakeboard or kneeboard can get up in a little less than waist deep water. On a slalom, with both feet in the boots, you need about shoulder deep so the tail of the ski will not drag the bottom. We ski at Lake Waccamaw in shallow water all the time between waist and shoulder deep. It's 9,000 acres and 14 foot at the deepest.
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81nautique
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Posted: February-15-2006 at 6:15am |
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Before I started using a double boot binding for slalom I used to stand in about a foot of water and hold a loop of rope. Then just hop onto the ski when the boat takes off and the slack in the catches up to you.
If your talking about the boat, I guess depending on your lake, a 75 foot line should get you far enough out. Just rememeber when you give it the gas the back of the boat dips deeper until you plane off. |
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75 Tique
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Posted: February-15-2006 at 6:52am |
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If you are talking about starting out, what every one else above said. You can start pretty shallow, (foot of water on ski, beach for barefoot...)as long as water gets deeper pretty quickly. If you are talking about how deep should water be where you are skiing, I am a huge advocate of better safe than sorry. On a hard fall, of just the right trajectory, you can take a real hard dive and head pretty deep into the water. Head and neck injuries can result. Six feet at the very least to be safe. More is better.
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