What was the first boat you single skied behind?

[riverman140]

Learned to ski behind our ‘86 Crusader W/ Merc 200 at Red Rooster on the Colorado river. Shore start and rip your arms out of the sockets. Engine used to load up so you would have to make it through the cloud of 2 stroke smoke. Love that smell! Good times

 

[oldschool]

Learned to ski behind this around '73. I don't remember how long it took to get up on a single, but it wasn't too long.

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Learned to ski behind this around '73. I don't remember how long it took to get up on a single, but it wasn't too long.

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That scoop looks familiar, H/M?

 

[Wavemaker]

I learned to waterski at Lake Arrowhead in the summer of 1962 behind my uncle’s Chris Craft. Used Taperflex skis. By the end of the three day weekend I was skiing on one ski, as I had a hard time keeping my left ski on. My uncle made me try on one ski only, explaining to me that “it kind of like skateboarding, only on water.” Got up on the third attempted start. Many happy times at Lake Arrowhead with my cousins on Holiday weekends waterskiing for many years.

 

[LazyLavey]

1963, Lake Isabella

16' Glaspar

My Bad... Isabella was doubles....

Singles.... 1974

BILs Avenger in Blythe

 

[RogerThat99]

It was behind this 1968 v-drive built by a guy in NorCal. It had approx 450 HP 454. I think they only built this 18' and a 21'. I can't remember the guys name. My Dad bought the boat new.

 

[Big Chorizo]

My dad's 1976 18' Tahiti Tri-Hull, he still has it. Powered by a 4 cylinder Mercruiser I/O.

 

[jesco]

25' Boston Whaler with a Merc hangin off the back on Havasu (Springs side of the lake). My best friends dad threw me in the water, told me I couldn't get back in until I got up... I had just turned 11. He drug me around for an hour or so, I was so tired I couldn't lift my arms. He would pull up next to me, tell me what I was doing wrong and let me rest off the back of the boat, but couldn't get back in. I ate a sandwich, had a coke, some chips, all floating off the ass end of "BIG BERTHA" (thats what all us kids called his boat). Finally I got up, went about 100yrds and he killed the motor.... hahahaha. Made me get up one more time to prove it wasn't luck and than he let me back in the boat. The next day I skied all day!!!

 

[Wicky]

77 Hawaiian jet boat...got up first time on 2 skis....and went directly to a single that same day. I was 12. Got up on the third try.

 

[Rayson1971]

1980 21' Tarva. Lake Mojave in 1980 on a wood plank of some sort . Kinda like lake p.a.l showed . Felt like you were hauling ass on it . Rode like a flatty in rough water

 

[boatpi]

Btw; I noted in my earlier post I first started skiing around 1960 behind my late uncles Owens with an outboard.

To prove a point and then I still had a few balls left, couple of years ago I hop back on my fat boy [but I am NOT fat] ski at the dam and skiied nonstop to the far side of the island probably 40 miles.

I went through two cans of beer is I kept in the pockets of my board shorts ‍

 

[throttle]

my dad's stoker.

I wonder what they had in those dr pepper cans that they wouldn't share with me. getting me up on one ski was like an abba zaba pulling your teeth out. even more classic, my first boat was a mastercraft and I couldn't afford a ski so I learned to barefoot off the boom with a handle.

 

[KevinR]

That scoop looks familiar, H/M? View attachment 675861

Sweet! What hull is that? Sure does look like a Holman-Moody air scoop on top of that 427 FE. My dad had a Tiger wood deck flatbottom with a 427 sideoiler. Loved that boat!

 

[Justfishing]

68 Larson 16' with 40hp johson

 

[Kailuaboy89]

1985 19' Bayliner cuddy Cabin with a Force 125 hp outboard, in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, next to Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station in 85'-86'
Boat was a pile and couldn't get out of its own way, but man we had FUN!

 

[Demoman]

1981 19ft Silverline with a 350 merc

Flathead Lake MT

Summer of 81 I was 7

 

[Bowtiepower00]

Early 80's 16' Bayliner with a force 90 outboard lol... Crystal Lake Iowa (more like a pond)

 

[TCHB]

Rat Hole
1965 Stevens Flat with a Buick!!! No reverse.

 

[rmarion]

78, Needles, 16' Flattie... 60 degree water... my balls are still shrunk from that cold water....

 

[DEEZNUTS]

19 Daytona. 13.5:1 468. Full race pump. Dominators on a tunnel ram and dry shorties.

 

[74 spectra20 v-drive]

Summer of 1977' Kings River behind Dad's boat. 63' Spitfire w/ 401 nail head...I had no idea how cool this boat was, I wanted to ski behind the Sanger Bubble deck. Boat has looked the same since 65', lost the mid deck and bench seat in 2000.

 

[wishiknew]

And where?

For me it was my friends Rayson Craft.

Lake Havasu, just outside of Crazy Horse. Back when the lake was flat, even on the weekends!

Edit: 74 or 75 me thinks

1961 glasspar 75 Johnson toms landing Parker 1961

 

[Nokomis]

1982 Steury Tri Hull with a 75 Chrysler. Blue Spring Lake, Jefferson Co. WI.

 

[f12517]

1981 22 foot Searay Sundancer cabin cruiser at 7 years old. 100ft rope behind that monster. We didn’t know any better.

Best memory I have is my grandfather, my dad and I skiing behind that boat at the same time all on slalom ski’s at Lake Naciemento

 

[rivermobster]

Super stoked, all these skiing threads got my daughter to want to single ski so I picked one up today at a used sporting goods store for 30 dollars. It's a 64in, on the max length for her weight but mine is 70in so this will do, bindings are in great shape.

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That's awesome!!!

 

[brgrcru]

Super stoked, all these skiing threads got my daughter to want to single ski so I picked one up today at a used sporting goods store for 30 dollars. It's a 64in, on the max length for her weight but mine is 70in so this will do, bindings are in great shape.

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very cool .
Its nice seeing parents taking the time to teach the kids to ski. just see to many just pulling tubes.
great times. my kids had to ski first, before any other water activity was played.
they both got it right away 4/5 yr double skies and then 7/8 yr single ski.
funny how they picked it up right away, with right equipment.
took me 1000 times to try to get up on one. with my dads size 12 boot and 71" ski when I was 9. lol

 

[Sharp Shooter]

That scoop looks familiar, H/M? View attachment 675861

Nothing better than a H/M Ford in a 60's flatty!