Hi All Off topic I know but I thought you'd appreciate knowing. www.skirecord.com 120 waterskiers and a boat mounted boom Greg
The current record is 100 skiers and last time we pulled 99! We are going again in 2 weeks time. Take a look at photos and videos on www.skirecord.com of our 85 and 99 skier runs Greg
We pulled 114 skiers over the required nautical mile distance!!! :yahoo: www.skirecord.com Web site photos and videos will be updated tomorrow Greg
Lets just say if somebody else tried to get the record off us, they better increase it by a LOT if they want to keep it for very long! :good: or maybe opcorn: says it better!
We are going back to Strahan in January 2012. As current world record holders with 114 skiers, our team will be together one final time to lift the bar to a new level. Where else better than hydrodyners to talk about a 3000hp twin rig ski boat! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Q0AsVFd0o&feature=player_embedded Its a once in a lifetime experience anybody interesting in coming to Australia for a look? Greg
Hi, Is Nick Brownell still Down Under? He does documentaries for a living, or at least he used to. Tim
Seeing as though a triple rig can pull a 42 person pyramid, I am betting that a triple rig could easily pull 100+ on combos if it were rigged up some sort of way with some large booms to let the skiers pan out. I don't think enough power would be the issue, the amount of space behind the boat would be. I noticed that the skiers on the world record are starting out deep water also. If there was a platform large enough , like a bunch of pontoon floaters tied together they would have a better success by starting sitting dock. Deeps are a lot of drag on the boat. Plus the skiers were not helping the pull either by leaning on the back of their skis for so long.
Hi Tim, I'm sorry I don't know Nick Brownell. Hi Dynegreg I've seen video of a triple pulling a 48 person pyramid off the dock. From experience with my 225HO I could see maybe pulling 20 skiers per motor from a deep start. On a triple, maybe sixty something, if you could hook them all up. From what I have heard from triple people is that prop traction becomes the limiting factor. I'd love to see a dyne pulling as many skiers as possible. I've been asking for years what is the most anybody has pulled from a deep start with a dyne but nobody has mentioned any big numbers. RAJ's pulled 20 barefooters using booms, very impressive. We had to start in deep water as Eagle is 36 metres long (120 feet?). Some skier technique was really good, some has room to be improved and we are training and testing now for the 2012 run. It is quite a show to see how all that rope is handled, how the boom is flat packed, assembled and put on the boat and how that many people are organised into the run. Greg
