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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Water skiing is superior to snow skiing in every metric. [/quote]

I'm the skiing hating swimmer above. Ironically I did grow up water skiing because we were a boating family. I became a competitive swimmer because my mother was scared we'd drown if we fell out of the boat. I learned to swim and just kept training.

Where I grew up you didn't have to be rich to go water skiing - my father made racing boats in his garage. He made my first pair of water skis.  Kids raced sailing boats on Saturday mornings, just like they play soccer around here. I imagine water skiing and sailing aren't working class hobbies around here.[/quote]

I grew up pretty poor (locally) and we always had a beater boat that our family would get on the water with every weekend in warm weather. Boating back in the 70’s and 80’s wasn’t as expensive as it is now. Boats were cheaper back then, cheap boats were wayyyy cheaper, and more abundant than today. I knew how to waterski when I was 8 years old.

Boat exhaust? Hell yeah! Some of the best memories of my childhood are tied to the sweet oily aroma of 2-stroke engine exhaust. [/quote]

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