Hey Cajundude, Fullboogie anyone else.
Lets take off work on Tomorrow, head to Galveston for some Wave Jumping.
Go look at Kemah Boardwalks live camera. Waves are bashing over the boardwalk.
Mick

Mick,
Where can we access this live came at ?

Weatherbug.com
The camera has been turned, I guess from the wind and not much of the channel is in view.
but you can see everything else.

So, what's the url?

I went there on Sunday, when the waves were just starting to get big - 10 feet. I was going to head out this morning with a buddy, but the roads are all closed. Here's a pic from Sunday (who says a GPR pig can't fly!):



[ 07-15-2003, 12:12 PM: Message edited by: fullboogie ]

D@mn David, thats some air!
Mick

Mark, go to weatherbug.com then click on camera's
It looks like the water is up about 3-4 feet and its flooding the pier and waterfountian area.
I bet there is 2 feet of water in my storage now.
Mick

All i have to say is THATS A BEAUTIFUL THING hopefully that storm some how stirs up the jersey coast havent hit some nice 10 footers in years

hate to rain on your parade Bogger, but the storm is heading West and will affect the MidWest rather than the Eastern Seaboard

stupid question...can jumping waves damage your ski?

BW,

In a word.... YES. The magic is in the landing and the water depth?

Flat landings tend to "slap" in, and cause things to crack and break. We had a rider break an engine mount in half as well as rip the oil tank off it's mountings at Todas Santos Ensenada Mexico.

However, you can tail in, and if the water is too shallow (or reefs are involved) really mess up some pump parts, and everything it attaches to.

Lets' not even get into the fact that you are taking a 600+lb sitdown, and tossing it into the air...with you around it. Be carefull. You can come home busted faster than the ski. I think there has been some pictures posted of some surf accidents on here over the last month.

I personally know of a couple, including one, that where his legs slipped off the back (no shoes)of the ski, the pump housing came down and slit his left leg from kneecap to ankle right down the front of the shin bone. The right knee cap, was cracked into 3 pieces as well. He lost his construction job, and was out of work for 6 months...just wave jumping. He was getting some massive air...

I have belly-flopped my ski a few times, and it always happens when I accidentally let off the throttle just before I clear the wave. It makes the boat go nose-down, and you flop it. Otherwise, I always make a tail-first landing, and it's rather smooth too. Not jarring at all. I do check over my boat really well after jumping, though.

DDDDDDDAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMNNNNN. I miss the jumping. I just hope I heal up before the end of hurricane season. Might be able to do some light riding in 3 weeks, but probably won't be able to jump for a couple of months.

Dont you miss walking the most???

Dude, I already told you that you can go jumping right now. I can wrap your leg in duct tape and off you go!

Coming down flat is the big bad wolf of jumping, but it can generally be prevented by learning how to read the wave and jumping at the precise time, also pulling on the bars as you hit the jump sets a nose high attitude and prevents it from falling and as mentioned above if you are commited don't let go of the throttle till you hear the rev limiter kick in. Do not jump in shallow water and you'll prevent damage to your nozzle, pump, rideplate and hull, be smart and you'll extend them life of your boat. Will it suffer jumping, you bet it will, the bone jarring you feel the boat feels too, the motor mounts will get loose the stress on the hull in that same area will be unbelievable. Many boats have put motors through the hull during jumping.

I know all the above are not things you want to think about while jumping, but I did neglect to mention, the broken legs, knees, ribs, lost teeth, cracked skull and worse suffered by many irresponsible riders, in addition to inflicted BY irresponsible riders.

So go out, have fun, never go jumping without someone you know, never get over your head, master the smaller ones before you get to the bigger ones, you'd be surprised, with the right boat you don't need huge waves for big air, most of the time you are jumping actually lower with the bigger waves, you'r just falling longer and harder.

thanks guys. so as long as i re-enter the water tail end first its all good? and this isn't going to damage my pump or anything if i'm in deep water? there's no way i'm going to stop jumping my ski, so i need to learn how to do it the 'right' way.

These boats are really sturdy. Double hulled too. I've been doing this all year and everything is ok on my boat. All things considered, yeah, a waveblaster would be better. But I can't afford 2 boats.