Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!tj From: tj@utcs.UUCP (tj) Newsgroups: net.rec.boat Subject: Re: Setting/locating waterski course Message-ID: <841@utcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 10:21:08 EDT Article-I.D.: utcs.841 Posted: Thu Aug 22 10:21:08 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Aug-85 11:23:14 EDT References: <1338@utcsri.UUCP> Reply-To: tj@utcs.UUCP (tj) Organization: University of Toronto - General Purpose UNIX Lines: 32 Summary: First some discussion about the retrieval of the course. We actually leave the underwater floats on so if we tied them together we would get them snagged on every fish line that passed by. Maybe there is something interesting here though. Eliminate the underwater floats altogether and just have lines from the anchors to attach surface balls to when we want to use it, tie them all together and sink them when not in use and run a line to shore. just follow the line to each anchor line to set up the course. sounds not bad, will think on it and report back. A couple of notes on where the #$%!.)-- course was set up. It was set up in a chanel in front of a friends cottage (his permission, he wanted to ski too...) and there is only one cottage near him. They are burried so far into a shallow bay that we couldn't get there if we tried... I think the key to co-existance is responsible operators. Just like you don't like me skiing off your dock, I don't like these fishermen taking the fish off the end of my dock. (really, I have a beautiful school of bass that lives near the end of my dock that I feed and watch when I dive) (I don't fish)(I don't even eat fish) There are pros and cons to every activity that each enjoys and we each can find fault with eachother. When I set up a slalom course I really do think long and hard about the people that aren't going to want me around so I find a place that disrupts as few people as possible. Just as there are asshole car drivers that make it bad for others, there are asshole bicyclists that make it bad, and there are asshole boat operators that make people wish that rocket launchers were over-the-counter merchandise. I try not to be any of these. Nuf said... oh well. t.jones