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    Posted: March-08-2023 at 10:27am
What boats have you done watersports behind? Such as wakeboarding, knee boarding, barefooting, slalom skiing, and waterskiing?

The boats that I've waterskied and or slalom skied behind are:
1991 16' Starcraft bowrider 115hp Mercury
1996 18' Checkmate bowrider 175hp 
early 90s Ski Nautique
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late 90s Sport Nautique
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1. 1965 RicShaw flatbottom V-drive, original engine was a sbc/out of McClaren Can-Am car / Throughbred "Parallel" unit. Current engine a PCM 502 BBC square motor and Casalle 12 degree and series 80-I transmission. full marathon/speed setup. still own the boat. It is first boat i ever skied behind. it surfed the colorado river in the late 60's and early 70"s. seen on Utah lake, flaming gorge as well as many other boat Race venues in the salt lake valley. spent numerous summers on Flathead Lake as well as being utilized as slalom course tug in the 80's. Long Lay up til 2008. couple summers on a panama city local lake as well as a few blast runs on pickos lake in SRB florida. This boat has a waterski record set behind it. Unofficial as it may be! but longest single wake jump of a ski fly set up at 207' we have the photos!!! we utilized this boat for nearly 60 years looking to get another ??????? out of it.. it is a 85 mph boat.

2. C-stock Hydro race boat
3. Stevens flatbottom v-drive similar to boat # 1
4. 1982 American skier Volante, was my main practice and family boat, my son owns it now.
5. 1998 SN GT-40 /perfect pass
6. 1999 SN 502 Python/ perfect pass. we became far better slalom skiers those three years.
7. 2007 SN 6.0 / Zero off
8. 2008 SN 6.0 / Zero Off
9. 2009 SN 6.0/ Zero Off
10. 2010 200 6.0
11. 2012 200 6.0
12. 2014 200 6.0
13. 2017 200 6.0
14. 1991 Shamrock fat 20' Center console.  Our Current saltwater family boat. great for surfin!
15. 1989 MasterCraft proStar. current florida inboards inc. restoration for resale boat.

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1963-1966:  Woody.  Late 50s Hiliner w/ 90 Evinrude (family boat)

1966-1979:  1966 Correct Craft mustang. 289.  (family boat)

1981-1982:  Late 70s Taylor SS Jet - 455 Olds  (my first)

1983 - 1996:  1983 Baja SS w/115 Johnson

1996 - 2008:  1989 Supra Comp  351

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Ranger Bass Boat 150 Mariner
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94 Ski Nautique thanks to my son for getting boaters safety and being willing to drive straight and fast enough.
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Thank you for all the responses and variety of different boats.
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First boat. Zodiac Futura with 50 hp 3 cylinder engine.  Way too much fun. Tried to ski behind it. Ha!
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MC Stars & Stripes
Bu Response
Bu Sunsetter
Ski Centurion
Tigé 2002 FSLM
MC Prostar 190
MC Prostar 205
Marlin Barefooter (1987)
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Supra something or other
Coleman canoe with 50 hp outboard
1976 Carina inboard tunnel-hull
1995 Crownline 23'

All those head-injuries are making my recall difficult...

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16' Corson with 60 HP Johnrude
18' Starcraft Holiday I/O
18' Grady White Bowrider 
18' Glastron Volvo Penta I/O
California Drag Boat with Berkley Jet 
16' Glastron Carlson 115 Tower of Power 
82 Ski Tique
83 Ski Nautique
Various Hydrodyne's
Several MC's
81 BFN 
96 Sport Nautique
206 Ski Nautique 
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Originally posted by Jonny Quest Jonny Quest wrote:

 

Coleman canoe with 50 hp outboard

All those head-injuries are making my recall difficult...

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You're probably just dying for somebody to ask about this so you can tell a story, or trying to see if anybody paid any attention to your list

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Numerous trihulls both inboard and outboards. 
1978 ski
1980 ski
1992 1994 1995 1996 Mastercraft
1996 tantrum
2004 ski
1969 Marauder
Etc etc etc. the list is long


The worst experience I had was barefooting behind a tritoon with a 200 hp outboard. Three large rooster tails to maneuver around on the deep water start. Once up and going it was smooth sailing on the outside but no way was I going to,cross to the other side!
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It appears I misinterpreted the question.  I thought just our boats.  Based on other responses, appears to be anyone's boats we have skied behind. 
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Or I misinterpreted the question?  Beer
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The following either we owned or I skied on many times, I'm not listing the various boats I went once or a few times on:

14' wooden (don't know what it was) with 18 hp Johnson
16' Thompson wood with Evinrude 40, later put a 50 on it
14' Mirrocraft with Evinrude 40 we took off the Thompson
16' glass v-hull (don't remember what) with Merc 50
16' Mirrocraft with 75
15' Glastron with 70
'63 CC American Skier
early '70's inboard (not sure what)
'02 Ski Nautique
'07 Ski Nautique
'98 Ski Nautique
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'98 Sport Nautique
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Originally posted by KENO KENO wrote:

Originally posted by Jonny Quest Jonny Quest wrote:

 

Coleman canoe with 50 hp outboard

All those head-injuries are making my recall difficult...

JQ


You're probably just dying for somebody to ask about this so you can tell a story, or trying to see if anybody paid any attention to your list

Maybe somebody will come along and ask Wink

When I was in my teens in the late 1970's, I had a friend that acquired an aluminum canoe with a flat transom for an outboard.  I believe that the manufacturer was Coleman.  Anyway, another friend "borrowed" his dad's 50hp Evinrude outboard motor and these knuckleheads mounted it on the canoe.  50hp on an aluminum canoe is a frightening concept.  With the outboard mounted on the back and one driver, the canoe was doing a "wheelie" just sitting there and not moving.  Back in the day, I only weighed a buck-forty, so I offered to give the Coleman rig a try.  I had an old EP Comp waterski.  The "get up" didn't have much giddy-up, but I did manage to get up.  The ski rope was tied to the back of the canoe on an eyelet.  Anyway, a good strong turn provided some quality entertainment.  I could really pull the boat around and the driver (his name was Matt) had his hands full to keep the boat from going completely out-of-control and flipping.  

After the group saw how crazy and dangerous this was, they all wanted to try.  Ahhhhh...the good old days.

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I have a canoe and a 50, but don’t have a driver that brave. Great story JQ.
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JQ,
Photos! Of course I realize that everyone didn't wander around with a camera or a phone in those prehistoric times :)
I love my Ski Nautique, but we had so much fun in the toy boat. Took a pro wakeboarder out and he did a flip with no wake. Pretty cool. On his second run he said he was "going to tow that toy around". He went out on a hard cut and tried to jam it, folded over like a house of cards. I told him the inflatable was ridiculously stable for a light boat! 
That boat ended up in the dump, but it took me so many places. Couldn't beach launch the Nautique like that. I'll bet on every ones list there is a boat with a special memory attached. 

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Seemed like a pretty straight forward question
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1960 Cutter with '58 Johnson 50 hp
1968 Larson with Johnson 75
1962 CC Tournament Skier
1967 Barracuda
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Most interesting is how the heck you skied behind the 9.9!

We had an Evinrude 10 on a 14' Mirrocraft when I was a kid, later swapped it out for the 40.  On the 10 I was pulled on a tube and an aquaplane, but I was probably 8 or 9, never tried skiing behind it.
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David, awhile back we were using it to teach a group of 6-9 yo's, and my BIL and I used to trick ski behind it.  It would pull us up and didn't even need full throttle to go trick skiing speed. 

Aquaplane- That's an old word. I bet most people don't know what that is.  We had one and it was the 1st thing I got pulled with, behind the Cutter.
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That's very cool that you could trick behind it!

I think we still have the old aquaplane, my dad made it from plywood, not even marine, and somehow it has survived.  It had a fixed rope attached and not very long, fun to ride slowly but if you dipped the nose it would chuck you off hard and head for the bottom.  Stopped using it probably in mid teens, I cut a disc and played around with that instead.
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Ours went to the dump years ago. Wish I had it now.  My dad made it from plywood and had a fixed hemp rope to the front and a rope loop for a handle.  At Sunset Lake in Braintree Mass where I learned to use it, it would dive to the bottom and come up covered with muck and milfoil.  You'd have to clean it off for the next ride. 
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Pictures of aquaplane please.  We made plywood disc's back then.  My brother made two ones a few years ago and we still give em a try every summer.  My uncle had a 18 hp outboard on a small wooden boat and his sons could jump shore on one ski and take off around the lake.  It took a few coils of slack in one hand and a smooth/soft transition to let the boat get going but if timed correctly was successful.  The good old days!
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Originally posted by Riley Riley wrote:

Ours went to the dump years ago. Wish I had it now.  My dad made it from plywood and had a fixed hemp rope to the front and a rope loop for a handle.  At Sunset Lake in Braintree Mass where I learned to use it, it would dive to the bottom and come up covered with muck and milfoil.  You'd have to clean it off for the next ride. 


EXACTLY!

Sounds like my dad met your dad somewhere and made the same board, same knotted hemp rope, same loop.Smile

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Guys, please stay on topic Wink


Ok that does it, Hollywood is switched to IGNORE.  And tonight I'm writing a strongly worded memo to Keith suggesting that I was attacked by Kevin for a very slightly off topic post.

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Originally posted by Gary S Gary S wrote:

Pictures are back, Green Lake is back, threads derailed- CCF is back! 

Even the periodic snarky comments like this one about: Nice of Hollywood to drop in every six months or so just to be Thread Cop.  I would just as soon hear about his ski team activities or any boat projects he has hanging from the trees in his front yard.
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