Okay, if Raceman can admit it, so can I...

[Scream And Fly]

I've been riding Jet Skis since 1991 - but only the stand-up type. They are tons of fun, and it's too bad that a lot of careless riders give the skis a bad rap. Personally, I prefer the stand-up models, because they require a lot more "body english" to ride. My first ride was a fully modified Kawasaki 650 SX - you name it, it had it - minus the laughing gas. Now, I'm sporting a twin carb Kawasaki 750 SXi - what an awesome machine when it's 90 degress out!

I admitted it - let the punches begin!

Greg

[Barney]

get caught or ripped off when you fall?

Do you wear little water booties so you don't hurt your feets?

Speedos would cut your wind drag, but then again, wind drag is better than drag queen!

[Instigator]

I personally give more room to people pulling tubes than the PWC guys.
Nothing like seeing an adult driving a boat playing "crack the whip" with his ten year old on a tube behind him and the driver is turned around backwards watching the tube the whole time!! More close calls with those idiots than anybody!! They even had to put markers along break walls after a couple of fatalitites where the driver cracked the whip and put the rider onto a breakwall at 50 MPH!!!!
Have also had my share of "episodes" with the PWC's, but I've said from day one, it's the operator not the craft.
Plust those damn things motivate you to get "goofy" on them!! Every time I ride one I turn into one of "those guys"!
I have also had the good fortune of meeting several PWC owners on our inland lakes that were more than courtious and polite.
One guy towed my Sonic in after I ran it out of gas (still fighting that gauge!!) and I had to give him $20. to promise not to tell anyone!!

[Kevin from FL®]

First and last time was in the early 80's. Rented some from a guy in the Key's for the Wife and I..it was the stand up type...he said for my weight (160?) I should lay down behind it? (Sadistic Bastard).. He said when it got up to some speed I should crawl on it and stand up! When I hit the trottle it blew my damned swim trunks down to my ankles and my ba$$'s felt like they were in a Veg-Omatic...I let go of that mean a$$ machine just before I lost it from all the pain...but the thing kept circling me like a shark ready for it's next meal . I pulled my trunks up and floated in pain while it kept circling me for the next attack on my body. When the pain subsided I grabbed hold of the toothless monster that had finally come close enough and idled back to shore.

I'll stay with the Boat!

[tombrown]

There are quite a few PWCs in the vicinity of my parent's cottage. Of course, they drive them like complete morons. It's comparable to having a half dozen really loud Cuisinarts buzzing all day, every day. They turn tight circles and drive back and forth a few feet of the end of the pier.

A woman I was dating last year had one so we took it to my parent's cottage. I had to twist my dad's arm, but I knew he was dying to go for a ride. Of course, he couldn't admit it! After I badgered him for the time his pride required (about 30 seconds), he said "OK",jumped on and took off. He came back 15 minutes later with a huge grin on his face. As he hoped off he said, "thanks for the ride, but it's not for me." I know that he'll never ride one again and I know that he's really happy he had a chance to try it.

I have a picture of my dad sitting on a SeaDoo. It'll come in handy if he ever really pisses me off. He's sitting on it with a big smile after just returning home. The print has a matte finish, so it didn't scan the greatest, but it looks adequate.

http://www.100megsfree3.com/tombrown/boating/SeaDoo.jpg

Oh ya, that's my ex-girlfriend and I standing on the pier. She's the one with the breasts.

[Techno]

Just an opinion but the reason the lake lice have a bad reputation is the owners don't care.
They don't care that their trailer chains are hooked up wrong, not crossed and they drag on the road.
They get their stuff ready for the water when it's on the ramp.
They get their stuff ready for the road on the ramp.
Have their friend drive the trailer to the ramp while they're still on the water.
Have no idea there are laws on the water.
Think they are super manueverable so they are infailable.
Think they themselves are infailable.

They aren't boats so they aren't interested in all the boat stuff. They're out there to have fun and be damned to anyone else. They paid their registration fee and the $5 for the ramp so it's all theirs.

If It's someone that is interested in learning or realizes that there is something for them to learn they're not cranium challenged. If someone already had or has a boat The azz hole factor doesn't apply.

Now apply the same formulae to someone with alot of bucks and buys a large boat. For some reason they act just like a lice azz.