Newb Looking to Purchase First Boat

[fweasel]

Consider two PVC screw joints on the longer legs if transportation room is limited. I'm able to collapse mine down and get it into the trunk of my 2-seater, which leaves more room for boats! Also, depending on the size of your lake (perspective at a distance) and the width of your largest hull, make sure your skis are wide enough to capture a boat at a distance with difficult depth perception. My first version was too narrow and half my rescue time was spent lining up the capture.

[Panther6834]

Consider two PVC screw joints on the longer legs if transportation room is limited. I'm able to collapse mine down and get it into the trunk of my 2-seater, which leaves more room for boats! Also, depending on the size of your lake (perspective at a distance) and the width of your largest hull, make sure your skis are wide enough to capture a boat at a distance with difficult depth perception. My first version was too narrow and half my rescue time was spent lining up the capture.

There's a simple...and VERY fun...solution to that - FPV. If you have a standalone FPV, attach the camera to the rescue boat, and you'll have a first-person view as your capturing. Alternately...and, the more versatile option...if you ever do videos using an action cam (and, if you haven't, maybe it's time to start?), using the same cam you would normally mount on the vehicles you're filming from, you could have a mount on your rescue boat. Obviously, this route would require live-streaming capability, and you'd be viewing the feed from your phone...but, essentially, it's the same.

I've been looking to do action cam videos for my land vehicles, and I'll probably want to do them from the SonicWake, so, adding a mount to the rescue boat would only be a minor additional cost. Depending on how often you use the results boat (meaning, helping other people), you could even consider an (inexpensive) FPV specifically for the rescue boat. Now that I've thought of that last idea, I'm assuming it to my "research needing to get done" list. Damn, I'm constantly finding more ways to spend money...and to piss off my wife...lol

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[boatsrnew2me]

boats! Also, depending on the size of your lake (perspective at a distance) and the width of your largest hull, make sure your skis are wide enough to capture a boat at a distance with difficult depth perception. My first version was too narrow and half my rescue time was spent lining up the capture.

good advice here ,mine could be wider as well