On Apr 23, 8:49*am, "jamesgangnc" wrote:
Competitive waterskiers have been using inboards for 30 years in case you
were on some other planet. *As well as recreational waterskiers. *But for a
general purpose recreational, fair weather, day boat an i/o is the biggest
bang for the buck. *For other stuff sure, I wouldn't consider anything but
outboards. *Serious off shore fishing, give me a big center console with
twin outboards. *But you guys act like just cause an outboard is the right
choice for what you do it is the right choice for everyone. *So if your
family got into some serious water sports, you'd buy an outboard? *That's
just pig headed.

And you wrote an entire paragraph on your use of an outboard for skiing and
how it was never a problem. *Instead you could have just said you learned to
ski on an outboard. *I've watched outboarders doing water sports, it's
obviously a pain. *Taking in and out ropes with that stupid floating bridle
to get them around the engine, give me a break.

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jamesgangnc wrote:
Lots of people learned to ski behind little outboards. *My wife did as
well. But that doesn't make them the best choice for recreational water
sports. And trying to say the outboard was never in the way is crap, you
just worked around it. *If you're going to do much of it in a day the
outboard does get in the way. *Besides you'll never get the hole shot of
a big i/o or inboard with anything less than a $15k outboard. *See any
real ski boats with an outboard?

I never said a small outboard was the best choice...I simply said I
learned to ski behind one, as did many others. I have no recollection of
the outboard "being in the way" of any waterski activities.

Have I seen any "real" ski boats with outboards. I sure have, in Florida..
Now, I appreciate the fact that "competitive" waterskiers these days use
mostly inboards, but I don't give a damn about them, and I never did.
Those flat-bottomed ski boats would be next to useless where I like to
boat.

I like straight inboards, but I'd never buy one as a "ski" boat, or a
"Wakeboard" boat. As for an I/O...nah.- Hide quoted text -

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Next Harry will tell us how his father skied across the Atlantic and
got a fireboat welcome in NYC on his return.