Lake Hartwell or Lake Keowee good for skiing?

[trueblue41]

Looking to move to the SC upstate area and inquiring about their lakes around Greenville. Hoping to plan a trip to go to a few to check them out in person, but would love any advice on which lakes are good/bad for skiing.

Note, we are amateurs, no salom skiing for us. But we do a little bit of everything as a family but do need some smoother waters for our SN to suffice in. rough crowded areas where its tough to get any space to pull anyone is what we want to avoid.

Lake Hartwell and Keowee seem to be the two popular lakes while Jocassee up north is more distant and colder.

[Interjon]

Just for your information, if you are ever interested in slalom (course) skiing, hit up ballofspray forum. The folks there would be pleased to tell you about private ski lakes and clubs in your area.

[Miljack]

We have friends on Keowee and have been out with them more than a few times. The lake is very busy on the weekends, it's a fairly large lake. That said, if you're out early, you can find very nice water to ski/watersports. During the week, it's pretty quiet. Hartwell is a huge lake and is very busy on the weekends, but again, many coves to find good water early.

[trueblue41]

Miljack, we do lots of skiing after work around 4-5pm during the week. But we also like to go out most saturdays and sundays.

for the weekend, we like to get out around 10am... you think we'd be able to get out early, cruise a bit further away from the busy docks and still find some fingers and coves on Keowee where its not super rough waters and away from bad crowds?

Our 84 CC just cannot handle big rough waters, so we'd launch our boat at the smallest boat ramp and do as much cruising as we could to get away from roughed up waters