Boats that you've done watersports behind

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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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 

'Bu Fligtcraft OB

'Bu Sportster

'Bu Response

Sanger Inboard

Sanger Outboard 

88 BFN 

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

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.

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. 

Abreojos Mexico

1960 Cutter with '58 Johnson 50 hp

1968 Larson with Johnson 75

1962 CC Tournament Skier

1967 Barracuda

1966 Wildcat

15' Reynolds with 1954 Johnson 25 hp

1988 14' Lund with 9.9 Johnson

Malibu Skier

Malibu Sportster

Many CCF CC's

1990 CC NWZ

BFNs

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.

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.

I have to check on the house tomorrow, plow and check up after a few power outages, I'll get a few pictures of it.