Last time I was in a boat that would go fast (probably about 1/4 the speed of yours) was in 1975, a Cobalt with a 188 Mercruiser inboard. The guy who owned it was a neighbor that we went to the lake with about once a month in CA... He liked Pine Mountain Lake because he had a cabin there. It was a pork chop shaped lake of about 50-60 acres of top water. The boat seemed to have two speeds, dead in the water or 35 mph. They decided to teach me to water ski at 35 miles per hour on double skis, total green novice, non-swim.
It took a couple of lessons before I learned to stand up and not drag my behind in the water... you probably know what happens at 35 mph with the tail down?? :frown::biggrin:
I did a couple of Jesus moves too when they jerked me off the skis... I took 4 or 5 steps across the water before I went in head over keister... must have been hard water, always knocked the wind out of me.
I was the comic relief for the ski trip.:rotfl::rotfl:.. everyone else could do single ski slaloms.
By the time someone thought to bring a vid camera to capture my lessons, I had learned enough to stay up on the skis and spoiled their fun.:biggrin: