Say No to Power Turns...

[BKinSoCal]

I know this has been a topic in the past, but CWB put together a little clip explaining power turns and the proper way to head back to pick up a rider/skiier, but with a little humor, so I thought I would share.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video....43415&comments

It's amazing how many people still do not get this concept. It keeps the water better for all of us. There is a time for power turns...your rider/skiier is hurt or is threatened by an oblivious boater or Sea-doer. Other than that, slow down, make your turn and head back to your rider/skier at idle speed.

Can I get an Amen?

[johnboyy7]

Amen and hallelujah.

[ski4evr]

Hillarious!! Wonder where I can get one of those shovels?

[Nautiquehunter]

I need that shovel for the 30' 4 toners that like to run at 15mph max speed just below plane across the lake setting up 4 footers .

[migs]

Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !

[EchoLodge]

I know this has been a topic in the past, but CWB put together a little clip explaining power turns and the proper way to head back to pick up a rider/skiier, but with a little humor, so I thought I would share.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video....43415&comments

It's amazing how many people still do not get this concept. It keeps the water better for all of us. There is a time for power turns...your rider/skiier is hurt or is threatened by an oblivious boater or Sea-doer. Other than that, slow down, make your turn and head back to your rider/skier at idle speed.

Can I get an Amen?

If you can only teach your wife......... Oh wait, you don't let her drive your boat!

[BKinSoCal]

If you can only teach your wife......... Oh wait, you don't let her drive your boat!

Believe me, it's not that I won't allow her to. It's that she refuses too, which really sucks!

[DealsGapCobra]

Amen.

I will confess that I was taught the power turn about 30 years ago and never thought about what it did to the water until I saw a thread like this last year! It's not that most of these folks are rude or stupid, but simply uninformed. I, sadly, was part of the problem and didn't even know it. But boy, am I ever a proponent of education now.

[jjackkrash]

Hmmm. I always thought a power turn occurred when you spun a direct drive ski boat on its CG (around the mid-mounted engine). I didn't realize the term also applied to a big, slow, lumbering turn on a v-drive loaded down like the Edmund-Fitzgerald.

You learn something new every day.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxpjhLCLMlM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsF8niEGEMQ

[SilentSeven]

Just found this old thread.

Amen.

PS - all you surf boat guys suck the big one. Just saying.

[Nautiquehunter]

Power turn + wake surfing = this area is screwed time to move on.