What would you do?

[efox]

All great suggestions. Here's the skinny I guess. I have talked with some on the lakes committee, and there is no way they will rescind the 20 foot rule. They also have come out and said no wake enhancing devices internal or external. You will be held responsible for damage to property. The lake is a 150 acre lake, with about 100-150 homes on the water and 1700+ in the developement with access. No wake until after 9am and running to 1/2 hour before dusk. I think this keeps the fishermen happy. What it creates is a lot of boats with riders in the water at 8:55 ready to go. Last night 7:30 was the latest you could be out for a "set".

Apparently a member of the esteemed committee had his retainingwall block "seawall" destroyed by a wake boarder. Never mind the 800 pontoon boats pulling tubers and in general running non-stop at 15-20mph, or the I/O's running off plane. I don't mean to complain, because we are very fortunate, but the lake has ceased to be good for any watersport other than tubing. I should buy an I/O or pontoon and be done with it I guess?!?!

The Tige 20V and the 2006 X2 seem like viable options, but if I take them to find good water, I might as well get the room I want too. the new 220 is looking really good to me as a choice.

Water close by, The Ohio River, Brookville reservoir, Lake Williamstown where my inlaws have a house (23 foot limit & no ballast either), or all the way to Norris and Cumberland in Tennessee.

I think cheaper boats and lower interest rates (easy money) have put too many people on the water...boy that sounded really elitist...sorry, bad day!

Eric

[darrel409]

Home depot has a really nice sawzall on sale.

There is a guy on Canyon Lake in Calif. that cut the nose off his MB to make the 20 ft rule. I've only seen pictures but it is set up so it re-attaches and doesnt look bad. I kno some of the speed skiers are doing this also to get around the boat length issue for their sport.

[ozark_skier]

The gas prices have cut down on the tubers and other "non serious" boaters just cruizinig around on the lakes here. Has not slowed down the fisher men though. I would suspect this will eventually be the case at other lakes, maybe yours too, so maybe after time you will be able to board more on your own lake. That being said, it doesn't sound like some of the property owners on your lake are wake board friendly anyway. I think who ever mentioned it above was right: perfect excuse for two boats. One for your lake and one for exploring other lakes when you want to spend the entire day out wake boarding.

[redelf75]

Sell the house. Buy the 220 and houseboat and trailer to the other lake! :grin:

Seriously, keep what you've got and get those rediculous members off the board! Fat sacks responsible for retaining walls falling down? Really!

[bkhallpass]

Home depot has a really nice sawzall on sale.

There is a guy on Canyon Lake in Calif. that cut the nose off his MB to make the 20 ft rule. I've only seen pictures but it is set up so it re-attaches and doesnt look bad. I kno some of the speed skiers are doing this also to get around the boat length issue for their sport.

I had read that fountain was going to do this from the factory so that
their 42 foot could be used for the Catalina race which I believe has a 40
ft limit.

BKH

[Socbum]

I trailer my boat and live across the street from a restricted use lake (9.9 hp or less). What a tease!

When I go out with my boat it takes a minimum of 2 hours to prep, load, haul, launch, load back up, clean off, haul back & unload.

The place that I go to on a regular basis is about 20 minutes from my house. The scene at the launch ramp can go from no issue what so ever to yelling and screaming in a matter of minutes. If I forget something while on the water we go without. There is no "I'll just run back to the dock and grab...".

If the reason for upgrading is because you want a bigger boat I would think carefully about your situation. Test out the trailering option by pulling your current boat out of the water for a month and only use it on the other lake and see how you feel. You might find the conditions are not much different while on the other body of water AND you have to put up with all of the trailering pains.

Just my $.02

[darrel409]

BKH, i believe that is exactly why the are doing it. The guys i know, Randy Davis and Dennis Hall are very good customers of Fountain. May have been the first to trim Fountain's race boats to size. They have at least 3 or 4 and new every year. Those guys are dominating Mens Open class all over the world. Won the last Catalina race (62 miles in the ocean) in under 58 min.