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Originally Posted by Skipper of the Sea Que
In the "old days" my brother would do a dock start and when he was done he would do a dock stop. As he approached the stationary raft he would toss the tow line and glide to the raft where he would sit down before sinking. The dock start is still allowed but the dock stop we used to do would violate the rules today. By the way, we had a spotter on the raft to alert us to any swimmers or snorkeler just in case we didn't see them as we approached the dock. My brother wouldn't drop a ski he would take it off and hold it then place it on the raft as we went by. {snip}
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We used to do the same thing for raft starts and stops. The tricky bit was to get your cut and speed just right and then release so you got to zero velocity right at the raft's edge. A little excess speed could be scrubbed off with a quick cut just before impact but many a time I had the alternate scenario - too little speed. Very embarrasing to have the raft mere inches from your outstretched hand as you slowly sink into the lake. Of course there were always a few sitting closeby to add insult to injury. The really good skiers (I was not one of them) would get a wild cut and be able to glide the length of the Brookhurst docks and do a beach landing. That was a no no then as well as today
I don't ever recall a skier T-boning a boat so they must have been lucky. It was fun to watch, and even more fun to see the law of conservation of momentum in action when someone came into the beach with too much speed ... the ski stopping at the waterline; the skier, not.
