It's Brisk Baby!

What lake was that in IL?

 

Pam,

I just found video tape today from 1993 WI state individuals. You were using the Dyne when it had the refrigerator in the back. Sue skiied after you.

Greg

 

Thanks Greg. I have that tape too, in fact I already sent it to Daniel. Did you come up with that name "the refrigerator"? Because it stuck! Too bad you couldn't actually store cold beverages back there.

 

Now that I think about it, I think I did. I was just thinking about somehting the other day. Do you remember the time that my sister, you, Rachel, Joy, and either Tara or Sue were all behind your family's old i/o, and you guys all did heel hold? I remember it because the rear hatch where your release was mounted was pulling up almost making the fiberglass break! Pretty scary.

 

We were talking about that recently. She has a video of it. That was a Viking tri hull that we had before the Dyne. You could take 10 people and go skiing with it. The release was bolted to the aft deck with a custom made mount. That happened in the late afternoon and I had the aluminum reinforcement beams bolted it before dinner.

jim

 

Yes, I watched that video not too long ago. It is pretty funny. You hear Greg say (in a voice about 2 octaves higher than it is now) "Mr. LeRoy, something is going on with the release." <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" border="0" alt="Laughing" title="Laughing" />

 

That was the first boat that I experimented with center of gravity. It was a bow rider, and it had two 18 gallon tanks under the rear deck and a V-8 I/O.

I took the two rear tanks out and put one 12 gallon tank under the left front seat in the bow. I even put a blower up there. We had our own 150 gallon fuel tank that was close enough to the water that I could pull up to it and fill up just like a gas station so fuel was no problem.

It helped the slow speed performance.

jim

 

Here is a picture of that boat. Swvski1 asked me to post it. It would seat a dozen people and still haul skiers. The picture is over 30 years old and badly faded. I enhanced it the best I could.

jim

 

I am in the water getting ready to go skiing. The young man holding the ski is our older son who is now 45 years old. My wife is in the water with me.

jim