On Apr 7, 10:17 am, wrote:
On Apr 7, 10:58 am, "Ken S. Tucker" wrote:



On Apr 6, 8:45 pm, wrote:

On Apr 6, 3:56 pm, "Ken S. Tucker" wrote:

On Apr 6, 1:45 pm, wrote:

On Apr 6, 12:32 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

"Ken S. Tucker" wrote :

On Apr 6, 5:51 am, "muff528" wrote:
" BTW, I think the word "dumbass" is Politically Incorrect.

Dam! I thought I was being PC by pretending to be offended. Someone
needs to publish the rules. (As if the usenet isn't already full of
PC kops.) TP

PC RULE #1:
We don't make fun of retards like Bertie, even though
he is living proof that turkey eggs should be sold in
supermarkets.

Oh ouch. Anyhow, how do you even know I stil exist Kenny? You have me
killfiled, remember?

Nice airplane in the story. I've seen (and have) water
skiing wipe-outs at 40 mph, it's a case of rolling on
the surface. If true a 67 yo is lucky he didn't break a
few bones smakin the water.
A friend of mine broke his back when the ski rope
broke. His ass hit the water at ~30-35 mph with
rapid deacceleration centered on his lower vertabrae.

Bull****.

Bertie

Not likely the deceleration, but the bending and flexing of the
spine as he dug into the water. My back is all messed up from
waterskiing tumbles (and snowskiing wrecks, and lifting too much).
When you're young you're invincible.
Dan

I hear ya, my spines a bit wore-out from putting up
TV towers as a brat a little to quick, (my fault, I hurried).
To be more detailed, my friend had to get a vertebrae
fusion at the base of his back. (I'd wash his back so
I saw the scars).
I guess the technical term might be crushed vertebrae,
but my point is water hit at high speed is hard, anybody
who belly flopped from a few feet knows that.

This fella is quite broad shouldered and stout, so when
his ass hit the water the rapid deacceleration focused
on the lower part of his spine and exceeded design
specifications.
LOL, a skinny assed guy like me would probably skid
across the water and get a free enema.
Ken

The enema is likely all you'll get from landing hard on your
tail. Never had one myself but some friends have experienced it.
Landing at high speed just means you bounce along for awhile until
something digs in and twists you around something fierce. That's when
the joints get busted.
Dan

Best wipe out I've seen: I was spotting in a 65 hp fibre-
glass job, doing about 33 on the speedometer, so into
a tight turn we go. The skier, decides to take the max
circumference, (I've done the same, try to pass the boat),
and dug in for high speed.

Well he's out there doing a whip-lash at maybe 50-60
mph, and his ski's start oscillating...well he flipped
out, and must have rolled over and skipped 3 times
like a skipping stone, before settling into the drink.

He claimed to have dislocated his shoulder, and he
blamed the driver for going too fast, he's a whinner,
the speed was set to 33, I kept checking that.
Ken

Pretty tiny boat, to get 33 MPH, with a skier on tow, out of just 65
HP. Especially in the turn. You sure about that?

Pretty much. The boat was a nice 15 footer with
a bit too much flat bottom (Lake of Bays Muskoka)
to handle 1' chop but ok with twink waves.
The 65 Merc would max it out at about 40 mph, also
it had a mid speed prop so it could troll ok and pull
out of the hole with a skier with some nice thrust.

Another buddy had a low HP O/B ~ 80 Hp, with a
high speed prop, on a 14' stilleto, that would get to
50 mph easy.

Nowaday's, the 200 HP's can get 70+ mph, which
is nearly standard, and they're pretty cheap $20K,
for nicely equipt unit.

My fav is a 25 HP Evinrude on 14' Aluminum, quiet,
efficient, and I ski fine behind it. Maxs out at ~ 25
30 mph, depending on how much pizza I ate.

Unfortunately, the motor manufacturers do not
have the varible pitch props I'd need inspite of
my letters to them to get me one.
It's like shifting gears. I pull out out the hole fast,
plane out, shift the prop bite to 2nd, then wham
out to speed slope, to 100 MPH.

I think I'll write a simulator using a paddle boat
to catch lot's of fish, for yummy's, the trolling
is excersize.
Ken