mcdog's freestylin' 96 roundnose

[McDog]

Yeah the air hose is 3/8". I am seriously considering coming to the freeride. I'm gonna try to convince pabloescobar to come too. How far away is Charlotte? My sisters live there.

This weekend I took the ski to a local boat paint and body shop. They wanted $1000 to paint my ski white. WHATEVER!! Not doing that. I'll get a graphics kit or something instead.

I got my pump tapped for dual cooling today and put my wife's SN pump back together. I also installed the Blowsion twister brackets on our steering nozzles and ground the sides out to give them more clearance. The Blowsion instructions said that you cannot use a OEM chinpad with the setup but I don't understand why not.

I'm waiting on another Blowsion order for a limiting rope, pole spring, and backing plate for my pole bracket. My pole is back together at -4 inches and the metal parts of the pole are painted black.

 

[McDog]

I turfed today. I suck. I hated it.

I'll call this pic "the good"

 

[Kennay]

Looks damn nice to me!

 

[McDog]

I only had time to turf the sides and cut the 25mm pad so it would fit in the tray. Now I have to shape it so my feet will fit in the footholds.

This one is "the bad"....so much for seamless.

 

[McDog]

Got the seamless to work on this side.

"the better"

 

[McDog]

"the ugly"

after I cut this wrong I just stood there for a minute trying not to punch a hole in the wall. Oh, well. I'm not redoing it.

 

[McDog]

sorry I forgot the pic...."the ugly"

 

[Kennay]

Minor details.... bead the edges with black silicone, it will look perfect, kinda

 

[McDog]

the footholds

 

[Pablo]

dude when that whole tray is black with turf u'll never notice that little seam. i think it looks good.

 

[Waternut]

Hey "the ugly" looks familiar...

Seriously though who cares. When you're flying down the lake and jumping waves, you won't care what that turf looks like as long as it stays on the ski. Look on the bright side, it can't be worse than mine and I still have a blast on the lake.

 

[McDog]

finally finished turfing today. I did the front foothold with one piece of turf! I still f'd up a couple places. I had to shape the 25mm pad with footprints so that my feet would fit in the footholds.

I also got my 24/7 bracket to to work with a Blowsion spring with a little grinding, but the spring tension is so high I can only get the pole to stay in one place by tightening the bolt.

The digger modification I did to the rev foothold seemed to work out alright.

I glued the hood seal on too, so the WDK hood is strapped on to help hold it in place for the glue to dry.

 

[McDog]

I epoxied the blowsion gas cap in place. I'm waiting on my ratchet strap system from E.J. to finish the hood install. Blowsion hook hooks too. I've got a blowsion limiting rope ready to go also. Can you tell I ordered some stuff from Blowsion?

It's mostly just assembly now. At least that's what I keep telling myself.

 

[Kennay]

Nice, it looks good..... I've been lazy as ******** today, I did a little sanding earlier, but I'm hungover as hell and not really caring about a jetski at the moment haha.

 

[Flat Brapp]

Turf looks nice to me! i can only hope mine looks as good as your does.

 

[McDog]

It's all in the camera angles! LOL!

 

[Waternut]

Looking good but I have to ask...Why is everything padded except the footholds where your feet will be during the majority of big landings? Or is it padded but only enough to still get your feet in?

 

[McDog]

I put as much pad as I could, but my feet had to fit. There's probably about a 1/3 of pad in the footholds, and 1 inch every where else.

 

[Crab]

Lookin good, I padded the top of the holds and the sides with 8mm, cant do it on the bottom under the holds, so must scallop out for the toes as well.

 

[BROSS]

Lookin awsome, what about the motor?