frazil
Master of the Boondoggle
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I think it was a night. Better question is: can you see the other end of the open water or do you blindly hold on at wide open throttle and pray?Wouldn't they have seen the "wide swath of open water" and stopped in advance?
RG, just wait a few years, you won't worry about them so much then. We have some older Sea-Doos ('96), once you have had them a few years the thrill of jumping the wake of ski boats is gone, so you start coming up w/ other more creative ways to have fun. One of the more exciting games we devised was playing catch.I dont let anyone drive them unless they also own something similar, to many people hit 55 mph and then dont know that those things dont have brakes.
You would be surprised how easy it is to clear out a cove for your own personal use when you have a couple of idiots screaming around on (old/beat up) jet skis. Even on Lanier. Actually ours aren't in bad shape, but they are getting to the age where it takes about a month or so of work to get them both running right at the beginning of the summer. We have an old XP and an old GTX. I think they are a lot more fun when they get a little older and you aren't as paranoid about damaging them. Shit happens, we have had both of ours taking on water before. We've crashed them into things/each other, gotten objects tangled in the impeller, etc. And even though our are old and top out in the low to mid-50's there is more fun to be had doing things besides cruising at top speed around the lake.You would have to do that in March on Lanier, cause come April all the coves are too full
It's actually pretty funny to put people on the jet skis who aren't used to riding them and let them loose. It's amazing how dumb people can be. Like trying to take a 90 degree turn at top speed. It's funny b/c it's not me skimming across the water at 50mph thinking to myself 'oh shit what have I done!'I swerved to avoid a log in the water and got thrown off while I was going at least 60 mph
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