agua
FIshing for Stand ups
- Location
- Seminole, Fl
Whats the underwater viability like? With my fish finder i can see a fishing line dropped off the back of the boat, im sure you could spot a ski with it. Find someone with a decent one
Other Sunk Ski in Lake Erie...how do we find it...
- Thread starter djkorn1
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onedumbtrucker
Now with 20% more pulp.
- Location
- London, ON
I have seen some people keep their tow rope in the handle pole recess behind the nose piece on the RN (D-Roc). Would be easy to have a small float attached to one end of the line and the other attach to the ski so in the event of a sink you already have an attached marker buoy to tell you where it is. Methinks this will be a winter project for this year.
x2. I think a recovery rope with a floatie tied to the ski at all times is a must for a defoamed freestyle ski.
agua
FIshing for Stand ups
- Location
- Seminole, Fl
Pulling a rope around long enough that you could see it at the surface?
- Location
- Hamilton Ontario
What about some kind of Metal Detector?
Would be hard to get your hands on one powerful enough to pick up the ski at the depth i'd imagine.
UNLESS we call Marvel and ask if we can barrow Magneto.
Looked into this and nothing is remotely powerfull enough, as in they mostly only see metal a few inches in the ground
Not so good. If it where like the ocean, seeing it would be a piece of cake. Basically you can see only 2ft, then kicked up sand for several feet, then see about 2 feet above the sand.
- Location
- Trumbull CT
Best of luck finding it man!
It CAN be done! many have!
It CAN be done! many have!
D-Roc
I forgot!
- Location
- Dirty River Rider
Put 2lbs worth of Dow foam in the tray. 2lbs is worth 10k IMO. If I am dead in the water or out of gas I yank my tow rope out ASAP and start lassouing (sp?) anyone that is close enough. I have nose foam hand pole foam and semi foam in the tray. Not sure if its enough to keep my 280 lbs ski from sinking so I go with the paranoid line of thought that it will.
GSXR RACER MIKE
20 years of stand up
- Location
- Northern Illinois
Another idea for the future would be to have some heavy duty fishing line with a highly visible fishing bobber at one end and attached to the ski somewhere - if the ski goes down the bobber would identify it's location so you could dive down and attach a rope to it, this way you don't have to have a bulky tow rope on your ski all the time. Since you would know the general area where a ski went down it shouldn't take that long to find a bobber that stays floating in one spot.
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- Location
- Houston/Galveston
Something like a spear gun real might work. Not sure where you would mount it, but with a flick of a swithch to put it in free spool with a small bouy marker at the end would make it self unreel as the ski went under.
agua
FIshing for Stand ups
- Location
- Seminole, Fl
Skyhook, batman style
- Location
- Cleveland Ohio
I am adding more floatation to my ski this winter...I think I'll fill the handlepole with pingpong balls and attach shrinkwrap tubes full of pinpong balls to the inside of my hull. Also thinking of adding a second 1100gph bilge pump. Foam is still dry, three years in! That hull is STIFF and Bobby sealed that sucker up good!
naticen
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- Location
- wilmington, nc
Any updates? I don't think it will move, but I wouldn't be giving it a chance while waiting on the chopper.
- Location
- Rochester, NY
yeah, there's nothing magically floaty about foam. It simply occupies volume so water can't. Think of it as air that can't get pushed out...that's a good thing.
I really hope you find it. This thread has inspired me to start working on a beacon / locator system. Don't want to say much more right now, but if I can scare up some funds I'll be working on a prototype over the winter. Thinking of how I can add 3 means of detecting / locating a sunk ski as a good insurance policy, without being intrusive on the ski.
so, yeah...I know that doesn't help find your ski, but please don't give up. It's down there somewhere...
I really hope you find it. This thread has inspired me to start working on a beacon / locator system. Don't want to say much more right now, but if I can scare up some funds I'll be working on a prototype over the winter. Thinking of how I can add 3 means of detecting / locating a sunk ski as a good insurance policy, without being intrusive on the ski.
so, yeah...I know that doesn't help find your ski, but please don't give up. It's down there somewhere...
