Ski Season Yet?

It was a blast till she overheated and cut-out on me.

Looks like the RWP wasn't pumping right. We would get 1-2 minute runs before heating up (which was as long as anyone wanted to ski anyway) then i'd let it idle can cool down. On DayTony's run the boat started to smell warm and ended up blowing a plastic elbow on the right side exhaust manifold which filled the engine box with steamy air and choked out the engine. The temp alarm never went off and the gauge was under what I've seen in the past so it looks like the exhaust manifolds took the worst of it. Chock this one up as a lesson learned. Thankfully it starts & runs fine off the hose so I ordered a RPW major rebuild kit and some new brass elbows to replace those S*itty plastic ones.

Here are some pix before she ended-up on the trailer.

Today should be a national holiday. Today the lakes open up here. Cant wait to go this weekend we are going to snow ski in the morning and waterski in the after noon.

lcgordon wrote: Today should be a national holiday. Today the lakes open up here.

Do you mean open as in ice melted or open as in they were previously closed to boating/skiing??

Amazing that all that water in open in MA in February. Usually MA looks more like this in February.

funny thing(and im going by what Andy told me, i did not check his sources)
on that same day last season the temp was record low in that area.

We are getting closer but 9F last night is prolonging the agony.

Tony and Andy, were you just in long wetsuits? That had to be COLD! Like ankles are aching cold. Or did you have booties as well?

I'd like to join you guys one day if you'll let me, but think I'd wait for at least April!

I was going to go in November on the local river but then stopped at the launch on my way by one day, put my foot in the water for a minute, and noted the pain and decided I was done for the season. Kind of regretted not going.

Saying you skied in MA in February is pretty rare!

nice

would love some video of the hop start!

every day

Larry, in my area (lakes region NH) there's still some ice around the lakes, and most don't have enough water in them to launch a boat. My friend just bought a house on Winnipesaukee and on Tuesday was able to walk out on the ice in the cove off his beach. We launched in Hooksett on the Merrimack, some side creeks that feed it were frozen over, and the fallen tree that was blocking one of the two launch ramps had ice all over it. I've only been skiing the river for 3 years and prior to that we had no options for cold weather skiing except some open areas on Winni.

we all fall

looked like a nice sunny day

Keep them coming fellas. I am out of the ski scene until late April - heck might as well be up north

We went out this past weekend here in Central NC. I wore a shorty wetsuit and it wasn't bad at all.

G

I don't know what the temps are but I can tell you it's plenty warm enough. General in-land fishing season doesn't start until May 7 so I got one more month to grab some glass. I already wasted 3 weeks and have not skied yet this spring. These house, dog and wife projects are all in the way! Yes I put them in that order.