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Hollywood
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Cleaning my hard drive, found this picture thought it was pretty cool.
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Barracuda
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GottaSki
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Check the clothing section. The 'line' you see is a triangular, rigid truss made of bar-stock to stiffen the whimpy bar. Early booms were really rigid, then sombody figgured out a little flex is a good thing. |
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"There is nothing, absolutely nothing, half so much worthwhile as messing around with boats...simply messing."
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eric lavine
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her left breast, that would hurt
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"the things you own will start to own you"
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Barracuda
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Was browsing the reference section today and ran across this very interesting photo of a boom setup on an 80 BFN.
Has anyone seen this setup in person? Have photos? link It looks like one boom cable is connected to the front D ring (standard) and the other to the observers left breast...very odd... Did CC offer factory "training bars"? |
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87BFN owner
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Hollywood I thought I was the only bastard that crazy on two skies now I know there are more of us. I love to see if I can clear the wake on two skies nice shots.
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Hollywood
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Here's some shots of the BFN's "wakeboarding" wake.
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87BFN owner
Grand Poobah Joined: August-25-2006 Location: Saline, MI Status: Offline Points: 2194 |
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When I get a hot tub will have to remember that rule.
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tullfooter
Grand Poobah Joined: March-02-2007 Location: White Lake, MI Status: Offline Points: 2225 |
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Similiar rule in the hot tubs. No bathing suits, it screws up the filtration system. Thanks for the info on the strait 40wt oil. That's what I'll run. |
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Play hard, life's not a trial run.
'85 BFN '90 BFN White Lake, Michigan |
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tullfooter
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22 seems a bit fast for wakeboarding/wakeskating. We like to ride between 17-20, 20 for us bigger guys. I know it sounds picky, but the wake is much better and the crashes are softer on this 44yr old body.
It sounds strange but I've been footin' since I was 13 and other that one crash (dislocated shoulder), my hardest falls have been wakeboarding. It's like snowboarding, with your feet locked together, no time to prepare for the hit. |
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Play hard, life's not a trial run.
'85 BFN '90 BFN White Lake, Michigan |
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Dank
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We normally ride about 22mph...the wake gets pretty flat pretty quick.
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"I don't know what the world may need, but a V8 engine's a good start for me"
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87BFN owner
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sounds good to me, you might not have seen it. But I tell all my wives friends and my friends that are women already know it. Any woman not related to me must be wearing a bikini to get on the boat.
All the guys that go on the boat seem to like the rule. I will have to see if I have outback day pics from two years ago. |
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tullfooter
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Never too early. My wife and two of her friends were suntanning on the dock last Sunday, sipping marguaritas (spelling?). My two sons were swimming off the dock on Tuesday. My thing would turn inside out if I jumped in.
If the girls are in bikinis, a pontoon will do. We'll set it up for the summer, kind of a mini Michigan CC reunion. |
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Play hard, life's not a trial run.
'85 BFN '90 BFN White Lake, Michigan |
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87BFN owner
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I thought it was just me that thought that about the wake, so I kept my mouth shut. I would guess some where in the range of 25-30, I would say closer to 30.
Tullfooter I think it is a little early for my wives friends to be out in bikinis, well I don't but they do. Plus Eric still has my boat. Wont be long though. They are chickens I usually can't get them out on the water until late June. |
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tullfooter
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I thought the same thing. I figured the rider was setting up for a wakeboard bomb out to barefoot.
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Play hard, life's not a trial run.
'85 BFN '90 BFN White Lake, Michigan |
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Nautique2001
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Dank,
About how fast are you boarding in the picture? Your wake looks pretty flat and smooth. At 20MPH, my wake is a more defined rooster tail. You look like you're humming along at higher speeds by the look of your wake. Ken |
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tullfooter
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I'm there, how about tomorrow.
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Play hard, life's not a trial run.
'85 BFN '90 BFN White Lake, Michigan |
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87BFN owner
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Dank more is always better, when they are that size.
Tullfooter, will have to have you out on the lake with us when outback day rolls around. Usually couple times a summer all the girls that work with my wife like to go out on the boat. |
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Dank
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ahhhh...They were a little light, that's why I had to get so many of them ;)
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"I don't know what the world may need, but a V8 engine's a good start for me"
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tullfooter
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Dank,
I was referring to the human ballast system shown in the bottom pictures of your diary post. Forget your plans and keep doing it the way you are. |
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Play hard, life's not a trial run.
'85 BFN '90 BFN White Lake, Michigan |
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Dank
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Right now I've just got two Launchpad bags and a pump we run from the cigarette lighter. I've got plans to build in the ballast system, but you know how plans are :)
btw, here's a pic of the wake. I don't remember the exact weight setup this day. |
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"I don't know what the world may need, but a V8 engine's a good start for me"
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tullfooter
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Don't you worry 87, the doctor is in.
Hey Dank, I like the ballast system you put in your boat. Where do I get such a system? Steve |
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Play hard, life's not a trial run.
'85 BFN '90 BFN White Lake, Michigan |
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87BFN owner
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Dank as I said, I plan to cure the no footing this spring.
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Dank
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Had to chime in here...mine is the third picture at the top of the thread. I'm one of those guys who owns a barefoot but doesn't know how. I've footed before, off a boom, but that's it. I bought the boat as a cheap wakeboard boat. We've had it for almost two years (starting our third summer) and haven't regretted it for a minute. The wake has a great shape for boarding...a little narrow, but we run 750# in the back and 450# up front and it widens it out and pumps it up a bit. I love the 454 and you learn to pull people up slowwwwly :) I have friends with newer "nicer" boats. They have all the creature comforts, but they are like Hondas, and mine is a muscle car...totally different feel.
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"I don't know what the world may need, but a V8 engine's a good start for me"
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WakeSlayer
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The boarding wake behind these boats is incredible for the era they were made in. Steep curl and it sends you to the moon. I had a 92 V drive. It had the identical wake to a friends 86 BFN direct drive. The slalom wake was decent and the footing wake was great. I learned my first backflips and undertakers on my kneeboard on a BFN. The one issue with my 92 was it only had a single skeg and handled like crap on turns. Short of that it was the second best boat I ever owned.
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ultrahots
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Correct.That boat is very nice but has a few issues like no original trailer and a bad motor to deal with.
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TRBenj
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Youre talking about this boat, right? Its Ford powered, but its not a big block. |
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81nautique
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Yeah, I'm still second guessing letting that one go by but BJ will do a nice job with it. |
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You can’t change the wind but you can adjust your sails
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tullfooter
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Damn Federov!!
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Play hard, life's not a trial run.
'85 BFN '90 BFN White Lake, Michigan |
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tullfooter
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87BFN, if you want any help in your quest to foot, give me a shout or email and you can come out to the White Lake area or we'll head out your way and get you on your feet. This weekend I plan on getting my 85BFN to my house and do some learning on what I will need to do to make this thing ready for the late April. This site is a huge help in my struggle to learn the ways of the inboard and even better, the joy of CC ownership. Gotta go, shootout in the Wings game.
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Play hard, life's not a trial run.
'85 BFN '90 BFN White Lake, Michigan |
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