One last try

Grub54891

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• Oct 2, 2025

• #21

Neighbor had a round plywood disk he made for skiing on. They would take a wooden chair and once they got up they would set up the chair and sit down and get pulled around the lake.

 

redneck joe

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• Sunday at 8:01 AM

• #22

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DeepCMark58A

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• Thursday at 9:24 AM

• #23

The ski is 12" wide, ideal dock start ski.

 

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Timr71

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• Thursday at 10:44 AM

• #24

Wow! That's such a large and wide ski. I've seen something similar to it. Looks like an aircraft carrier.

 

Scott Danforth

Grumpy Vintage Moderator still playing with boats

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• Thursday at 10:56 AM

• #25

I have a set of late 60's Thomson "Big Boy Specials" they are almost 11" wide and nearly 8 feet long. you can ski behind a 12' row boat with a 15hp motor

 

sangerwaker

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• Thursday at 11:39 AM

• #26

We used to trick ski behind a 10' aluminum duck boat with a 5.5 HP motor when I was growing up.

 

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DeepCMark58A

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• Thursday at 12:54 PM

• #27

Timr71 said:

Wow! That's such a large and wide ski. I've seen something similar to it. Looks like an aircraft carrier.

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It is called Big Easy. I am a beat up, used up 59 years old I need it as easy as possible.

 

redneck joe

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• Thursday at 2:08 PM

• #28

Scott Danforth said:

I have a set of late 60's Thomson "Big Boy Specials" they are almost 11" wide and nearly 8 feet long. you can ski behind a 12' row boat with a 15hp motor

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I pulled may a skier behind that exact set up back in the early 80s...

12 fiberglass Sears ted williams gamefisher with a 76 15 rude.

 

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Chris1956

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• Thursday at 2:24 PM

• #29

OK, I skied behind a 3.9HP Merc on a rowboat, on a picnic table top. It was more like surfing.

 

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tphoyt

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• Thursday at 3:02 PM

• #30

I had a 12’ Ted Williams for a while with 7.5 and it was fun I’m sure that 15 hp was a real blast.
For what they were they were decent boats.

 

redneck joe

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• Thursday at 4:27 PM

• #31

tphoyt said:

I had a 12’ Ted Williams for a while with 7.5 and it was fun I’m sure that 15 hp was a real blast.
For what they were they were decent boats.

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Was yours the fiberglass? They were rated for the 9.9 but dad was always a rebel with horespower on the boats...

 

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tphoyt

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• Thursday at 4:36 PM

• #32

Yep. Two thin skins with foam in between.

 

redneck joe

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• Thursday at 4:40 PM

• #33

Yeah at 16 that was my first fiberglass repair job all along the keel.