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Originally Posted by Wolfeboro_Baja
Long Pine, thank you for bringing this up. It never occurred to me that tubing and skiing might be somewhat mutually exclusive. Being a weekend skier that didn't get beyond an amateur level (and having learned on Winni some 35 years ago), I always thought the every day skier was prepared to handle the rough water Winni dishes out (with the exception of someone just learning to ski). I've observed competition skiers getting out on the water at 6:00am so they could practice on smooth water, which I presume is similar to competition conditions. I've always tried to give a skier or tuber as much room as possible since one never knows when someone will end up IN the water and I would be horrified if I ever came close enough to a person in the water that there was a danger of striking them. Plus, when you've got multiple boats in the same area pulling tubers and/or skiers, the average 20ft boat effectively becomes an 80ft boat once you add in the skier on the end of a 60ft (+/-) tow rope; depending on the area of the lake you're on, it can get pretty tight.
I, for one, was not aware of this practice. Thank you for mentioning it here; I will be on the lookout in the future. One question; how/where is the flag usually displayed?
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If you opt to get one it's best to have one you can use "hands free" IE either a suction cup mount on the windshield or in my last boat I had a mount that was permanently attached to the windshield frame. In Colorado where I came from it was the law so I'm used to always displaying it when somebody is in tow or in the water. Again, good idea to have as long as people understand what it is there for. I've never been approached by the MP for using it, I'd be surprised if they gave me a hassle for it.