We'd rather be skiin'

The Annual Wet Set Desert Classic

 

Good times this past weekend!  We pulled 144 rides and a lotta legs (just call me Reride ;)

Thanks to all contestants, officials, club members, judges, boat owners, sponsors, families, supporters and anyone else we might havemissed who helped put this event together. It's truly a team effort and everyone contributed mightily.

Please take a moment to check your records and insure you have paid for all said rides, as our club is a nonprofit all volunteer organization that relies on prompt settlement of accounts in order to keep on keeping on...

Non club contestants can send their payments to:

c/o

20th Annual Desert Classic

POBOX 12107

La Jolla, CA 92039

The events:

Trick rds 1&2 (order depends 
on judges). Novice Slalom
rds 1&2 nev made (slowest 
1st-short ln last). Sunday 
Jump rds 1&2 nev made 25ft 1st.
Finish rds 2&3 Slalom, same order.


Performance notes:
Top trick performances:
Skip Wintter, 5240
Daniell Sligar 4580
Eric Lee    4830

Top Slalom performances

Group A

Charlene Brown 74 buoys
David O'Hara 73.5
Ryan Fitzpatrick 73

Group B

Erik Larson 86.5
Taylor Garcia 86
Tom Scott 86

Group C

Scott Larson 105.5
Michael Stevenson 98.5
Skip Wintter 93.5

Jump
Michael Stevenson 160 feet
Skip Wintter 151
Daniell Sligar 91



-TWD

(updated 6/8/09)

Promo boat dealie

As many of you already know I’m buying Jack Wilson’s 2008 Promo Ski Nautique this year which I will take delivery on in late September. Consequently, I have my current 1999 Ski Nautique on the market for sale. Some of you will remember that I bought this former Promo boat from Jerry Barnes at Great Lakes. Since you are all moving in circles with other Ski enthusiasts I thought I would get the word out there. I would appreciate it if you know of any one that might be interested in a sweet used Nautique to have them give me a call. I want to sell the boat as quickly as possible so I have priced the boat below market. I have attached a flyer about the boat as well. Thanks, Ron Burns (858) 488-7657 home, (310) 892-9743 cell. 

Chris may be "le idiot" but..............

I certainly did benefit from it!  Now I am totally hooked up on my BB with everything I need.  Thanks, Chris.  You can be "le idiot" any time you please!  hehehe

Sometimes, we turn the other cheek...

Some club members just look better from a different angle...

Dave's take: "A bit of a crack up..."

This is a post about what an idiot, Chris really is

Chris is such a le idiot, that he brought someone else's phone, to try to learn how to use the BLOG!

Tige for sale, Tige for sale

  2000 SLM Comp, Tige 1994

Length 20'

350 Magnum Engine, 256 HP

Low Hours, I am the original owner,, have all the paperwork

Biminy top

Stereo, four speakers, CD and radio

Custom boat cover

Perfect Pass

In mint shape, always garaged

Sweet wake, actually no wake.

12K OBO

My phone:  951-817-1132 home

cell             714-697-2885

Now or never for the "DeathStar"

After the latest in a long line of unsuccessful lake tests...see  and also: the MasterCraft repair blues, we're heading to last resort territory before the boat gets, uh, divested.

On this date (Tuesday, Jan 22, '08) I e-mailed the great Gazzoos themselves, at MasterCraft.com.  They are very, very busy trying to sell new boats, so, we'll see what, if any help, they can provide.  I am also posting this to the club's blog in hope's some knowledgeable web wanderer stumbles upon this and can help.  A lot of very good wrenches (pro and semipro) have taken cracks at this, and haven't quite put their knuckles on the source of the problem.

But here's what I sent:

Own '84 Stars 'n Stripes with 351 Ford engine: having devil of time diagnosing a "miss" at high/top end. See details here:http://inmotion.typepad.com/wed_rather_be_skiin/2007/08/mastercraft-rep.html
And watch a video of recent lake test here.

Noted driver, skier, AWSA member Wayne Canfield is working with me on the problem. Any ideas for a fix are welcome.

Best,
Steve Perez
p.s.-- logged onto site hoping to post this information on a message board. Is the board, in fact, still active?

MasterCraft repair blues...

For all of you who have inquired about the status of the MC, here's the update.

When we last left off, the noted repair shop in Lake Elsinore attached to the MasterCraft dealership there, California Skier, had replaced a working carburetor with a newer model, in an effort to resolve a persistent "miss" at RPMs over, oh, 3,300 or so (close to 34 MPH, top tournament speed for most of us).

The replacement carb. failed to resolve this. A lake test Aug. 7 with my expert, their mgr., and their tech, confirmed this. I expressed my disappointment over this, and noted that, at $105 an hour, I should not be asked to pay them to take "guesses," but, for their expertise.  Previously, they had assured me the new carburetor  would resolve the issue.

We left disagreeing over a suitable resolution (and no volunteering to return any part of a four-figure repair bill). My expert, who prefers to stay out of the middle of all this, thought after hearing the sound again, that it was electrical, not fuel  related. He, like me, however, expressed dissatisfaction over the way the  boat idled. The new carb. has the idle set at the factory I later learned, and you cannot adjust it one iota.

I asked for the old carb. back, had it reinstalled, and lo and behold, now it too is fubar. 

Tuesday Aug. 14, I visited CS with the useless new carb. and respectfully requested a refund for all my monies. Mgr. refused, noting, that, since the carb. was now used, it was worth half what I paid for it. (Again, customer being stuck with nearly $700 worth of useless parts is apparently beside the point, right?).

Mgr. only told me he'd call me back to tell me what "he would do" about my request.

At this juncture, I'm now awaiting my credit union's response to my request to reverse the charge to my card, and compel him to accept the ineffective, slightly used carb.

Further, I learned on Monday, Aug. 20, the carb. returned to me as my "original", is in fact, not. It's the same make and model, but has a blown chamber and must be rebuilt, at my expense.  My expert knows for a fact it is not the same carb., as he had previously rebuilt it, and notes that the one returned to us was now backfiring and, upon close inspection, has never been rebuilt before.

Man, where's Turko or the TroubleShooter when you really need them?

The troubled MasterCraft

Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 7:26 AM
To: Wet Set Ski Club Board Members
Subject: The troubled MasterCraft
FYI, Bob, all: I spent the better part of Saturday having it out with the repair and "service" folks at California Skier, where their guess that it needed a new carburetor and nearly $1,300 worth of work was WRONG.

Tuesday, I'm supposed to test drive it with their tech and the service dept. mgr., and I'll have Wayne C. along. They promised it would work or they'd put the old carb. in, but now don't seem so eager to back up their words.

Long story short, it's most likely not going to be be available this weekend (sigh), and I'm sorry about that. - TWD

p.s. Thanks to John B. and Bob R. for volunteering to pick up the slack.

p.s.s No thanks to my brother Joe, for trying to make me feel guilty, to wit, he wrote:

   

"Great.....He (Wayne C.) can't come look at my fuel pump....Cuz he'll be with you.... 'beating a dead horse'......"

 

Didn't know Carl and the Lama were water skiers...

Here's one from Caddy Shack, you know Carl the greenskeeper but now changed to water skiiing.

 

"So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get a job as an instructor on an alpine lake in the Himalayas." "What*s an instructor?" "An instructor, you know, a ski bum, a buoy chaser, a real short-line pro. So I tell them I'm an EP level skier, and who do you think they give me for my first private lesson? The Dali Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm in the course with him, I show him the line. He hauls off and runs 38 off

* a ripper, the Lama - huge spray, waitin* on every buoy.

Do you know what the Lama says? "Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga." So we finish the set and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know?" And he says, "Oh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me. Which is nice."

- fowarded by JPIII, original author unknown, inspired by the "Caddyshack" crew ;)