Ski boat slides super-easy on approach...all the way up to the bow stop. I pull the power before I hit the trailer and slide gently up. Bride pulls truck forward as the bow touches the stop and voila...we're up and out of the water. If the boat isn't all the way forward as we pull to the prep-area, bride hits the brakes on the truck and the boat slides forward on the bunks to the bow stop. Hook up the strap, 2 turns on the winch and we're done.
By motoring in shallow water in a ski boat, sand is being disturbed. If anyone is upset that sand is being disturbed, they need to be on a motorless lake. There is no way to not disturb the sand. If that is the definition of "the problem"...then guilty I am. Because I use a ski boat. Not because I power load.
(for anyone that doesn't know, ski boats are fixed shaft with a 16deg down-angle out the bottom of the boat. There is no way to direct the thrust with a trim mechanism).
Finally...I know you're not being an ass and didn't take it that way at all. I'm only writing THIS post to point out there is a proper way to power load. I do recognize and respect the magnitude of the problem. I do respect the people who have enormous investments in lake property and understand they have a much higher stake in the life of that lake...than the yahoo with a $7 launch pass. I have watched launch-ramp-follies on many an occasion and witnessed every intentional idiot, and every unknowing newbie mistake there is. I don't know how to solve the actual problem, which is the wash-channel and corresponding mound of sand and rocks at the end of the ramp. But I indeed do not consider myself part of the problem. I respect it exists. But in my opinion, me not power loading isn't going to improve anything nor slow a washout. Cheers Lakeliving. What you wrote needed to be written and the problem is indeed very real.
By motoring in shallow water in a ski boat, sand is being disturbed. If anyone is upset that sand is being disturbed, they need to be on a motorless lake. There is no way to not disturb the sand. If that is the definition of "the problem"...then guilty I am. Because I use a ski boat. Not because I power load.
(for anyone that doesn't know, ski boats are fixed shaft with a 16deg down-angle out the bottom of the boat. There is no way to direct the thrust with a trim mechanism).
Finally...I know you're not being an ass and didn't take it that way at all. I'm only writing THIS post to point out there is a proper way to power load. I do recognize and respect the magnitude of the problem. I do respect the people who have enormous investments in lake property and understand they have a much higher stake in the life of that lake...than the yahoo with a $7 launch pass. I have watched launch-ramp-follies on many an occasion and witnessed every intentional idiot, and every unknowing newbie mistake there is. I don't know how to solve the actual problem, which is the wash-channel and corresponding mound of sand and rocks at the end of the ramp. But I indeed do not consider myself part of the problem. I respect it exists. But in my opinion, me not power loading isn't going to improve anything nor slow a washout. Cheers Lakeliving. What you wrote needed to be written and the problem is indeed very real.
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