lift rings for pulling skiers

is it ok to use the lift rings for the ski rope instead of the pylon? I will usually have more than three people in the boat and since this is my first ski boat          (1982 Nautique) I am just wondering what others do.

Thanks,

Todd

sorry for being a smart butt. i go to the lake to ski and ski hard. it's a release for me. i have a ponton to use and anchor it out in the water for excess passengers. (friends grow like weeds when you have a boat.) the observer needs to have about 75 # on the driver to get the 72 perfectly flat for the optimum skiing wake. yes, i'm picky.

yes, you can use the lifting eye. i did it for years behind the separator. don't use a metal clip. it will chip the chrome.

i am trying to get my 10 and 12 year old boys into it without much success. i bought some trainers from boaters world with the rubber stabilizing bar, but their swim trunks always blow up like 800 # balloons. i hope to get a boom set up and get them going in 04, but the younger one has watched to many shark movies and freaks out when the fish nibble at his toes.

a boom might also be a solution for you since you are going into the barefoot aspect. it will give you more in the boat.


i can remember my friends dad teaching me behind a trihull norris craft with an 85 merc when i was 11. he brought a thomas thermos with his afternoon martini(s). i think he burned 12 gallons to get me up on the old dick popes, but i finally did it. i soon moved up to the conley hook. ah, the good 'ol days.

i fell off the front of that boat at speed when i was 17. i got chopped up pretty bad and developed a subliminal passion for closed bows. that boat is still around, but the old merc smokes quite a bit.

If you are just skiing for the fun of it and your not running a slalom course hook the house to the the lifting ring and load the boat. We had a 1986 Nautique with a 454 had 15 people in the boat and still got up on plane just don't stop. Prior to this we had 15 skiers behind this bad boy out of the hole it was all it would do to get moving. Two boams one out each side with 8 barefooters thats why we own Correct Crafts you can't kill these works of art. We now ski with 2002,1985,1973 and soon to be a 1969.There are also two Master Crafts on the lake but not very serious skiers. As for lifting rings again I hang the 1985 on these all summer people think were nuts the only one on the market that can still do this the 1969 is next for the lift. As for the kids try them on a knee board if there not ready I have 11 and 13 year old both were barefooting this summer on the boom its a must for the newbie.

Correct Craft I beleive is the only manufacturer that recommends hanging their boats by the liftrings. as a result you can tow approximately 1800 lbs no problem. My 18 Year old learned behind the 66 in my signature as well as a 92 with boom. To get on a single the Instructor got on a wakeboard and took 2 wraps on the skirope. He was then able to get behind the skier and when he dropped to one ski he held him up by the vest until he became stable. It was the most amazing thing I've ever seen.

Look at the 1972 brochure, page 4, or freeport(1). That boat doesn't have a pylon.

My 'cuda doesn't have a pylon, so we pull everyone from the lift ring.It's designed to support the weight of the boat being lifted up vertically.Pulling the weight of multiple skiers from behind may crunch the bolt up against the fiberglass-mine hasn't shown any signs of this, but if the wooden supports are soft, you may see this.