jasoraso
Jet Boat Junkie
- Messages
- 61
- Reaction score
- 65
- Points
- 142
- Location
- Murray, UT
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2006
- Boat Model
- SX
- Boat Length
- 23
Here are few tips for taking your valentine waterskiing in February, in Utah:
1 - Have several warm days in Salt Lake - temps around 60 degrees or so (and ignore the fact that the water temp is probably still less than 50).
2 - Have a forecast for 70 degrees on Saturday, Feb 14, and a teenager who bugs you for several days saying "Can we go waterskiing on Saturday, it's going to be 70!".
3 - Don't get intimidated when the thermometer in the car reads 61 when you pull into the marina
4 - Find a shallow place to stand on one foot (a life jacket can make the rocks on the bottom feel softer), while holding the foot with the ski (preferably a fat water ski) out of the water, when there is just a little bit of slack - say "hit it", and hold on tight!!!!
5 - Enjoy the calm water since there is no one else crazy enough to be on the water:
(poor wakeboarder we brought couldn't beach start like us
)
6 - Have the boat drive parallel to the shore, and then let go and slowly sink into the mud in 2ft of water (I love the shallow draft of the Yamaha - just keep it on plane while shallow
, then idle the boat to pick up the skier.
7 - Give your valentine a BIG hug after picking her up out of the water:
8. Once your valentine warms up, take her snow skiing the next day:
Global Warming in Utah: Water-skiing on Feb 14th (after 30 min drive from my house), and snow skiing in a snowstorm the next day (Feb 16) (after a 30 min drive from my house).
The 67" base at Snowbird worries me that I need to get all of waterskiing in now, and that there won't be any water in the reservoirs come summer
1 - Have several warm days in Salt Lake - temps around 60 degrees or so (and ignore the fact that the water temp is probably still less than 50).
2 - Have a forecast for 70 degrees on Saturday, Feb 14, and a teenager who bugs you for several days saying "Can we go waterskiing on Saturday, it's going to be 70!".
3 - Don't get intimidated when the thermometer in the car reads 61 when you pull into the marina
4 - Find a shallow place to stand on one foot (a life jacket can make the rocks on the bottom feel softer), while holding the foot with the ski (preferably a fat water ski) out of the water, when there is just a little bit of slack - say "hit it", and hold on tight!!!!
5 - Enjoy the calm water since there is no one else crazy enough to be on the water:
(poor wakeboarder we brought couldn't beach start like us
)6 - Have the boat drive parallel to the shore, and then let go and slowly sink into the mud in 2ft of water (I love the shallow draft of the Yamaha - just keep it on plane while shallow
, then idle the boat to pick up the skier.
7 - Give your valentine a BIG hug after picking her up out of the water:
8. Once your valentine warms up, take her snow skiing the next day:
Global Warming in Utah: Water-skiing on Feb 14th (after 30 min drive from my house), and snow skiing in a snowstorm the next day (Feb 16) (after a 30 min drive from my house).
The 67" base at Snowbird worries me that I need to get all of waterskiing in now, and that there won't be any water in the reservoirs come summer
