Re: Need for Speed?

[David Stanton]

quote jw in dixie:

Say, OBN, ever skied on a boat paddle? Takes half a six-pac to get ready, but it’s fun. 🙄

Nope – never skied on a boat paddle, but have been on a homemade "saucer" which was just a round 4 foot diameter piece of 5/8 plywood. I gave up skiing barefoot about 20 years ago – it takes a lot of muscle endurance and I don’t like trying to roll forward into a ball with almost zero notice when one foot digs in to make hitting the water at 38 MPH not so bad on the neck and back.

BTW: If anyone tries the 4 foot plywood saucer thing – watch out! When the front edge digs under a wave and you fly off, the saucer slices under water and comes shooting back out at roughly the angle it dug in at and it is nasty if it hits you – it has momentum!. Next door neighbor girl at the lake cabin when we were teens had the thing hit her above one eye and needed stitches (it was their saucer and her parents got rid of it after that).
Dave