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MW wrote:
You are "begging", yes "BEGGING" to get hurt ! It will eventually "FLIP", no matter how careful you are ! If you get thrown from the boat, and that kill switch fails, you'll get ground into hamburger by the boat doing circles until the prop strikes you. Seriously, DON'T DO IT ! There's a lot of people telling you "NO" here for a reason, they've seen what can happen out there on the water.
LMAO!!! I picture a man typing in a heavily padded foam suit with a helmet on, hockey gloves and knee /elbow pads. Any boat can and will flip if the operator is careless under the wrong sea conditions.
Ya know the 90 weighs the same as the 70, why not just get one of those? Those 3 cyl yammies can be modded for more HP too, maybe you can get 115 or so out of that 90, that should be plenty to pull even the biggest skier up
LMAO in Montana too! At least you guys both agree about the heavy pads and a helmut!
My hi-po boat I think pales in comparison to some of you guys. It was a 16' American with a 150 Merc. Had a custom tuned 2-blade nibral prop and did right around 55 mph. It flew with one guy in it. You had to roll the wheel back and forth to counteract the rhthymic thud of the hull as it alternately went semi-airborne and thudded back down. We didn't call it chine walking back then - a solo run in that boat was called "going for a thud". Turning at speed was an adventure.
After that a 40 on a 13 never quite held the same thrill . . . and my current 60 on a 15 is similarly tame . . .
