ThorSen
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- Aug 17, 2017
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- Boat Info
- 2018 SPX 190 OUTBOARD 150
- Engines
- 150 4-stroke Mercury outboard
Can someone point me in the right direction on how to mount a rope to the ski eye in the back? … Is there an attachment or something that connects to the eye and then to the rope??
In concurrence with Keg17, I’ll add you don’t want to simply “use any rope.”
You want to obtain a rope specifically designed for pulling a skier or tube and they aren’t always the same rope as you want to get a tow rope with the right weight capacity of the individuals you will be pulling (I.e., one, two, three, four, all the way up to six persons - my family simply KISS and we just buy single person SKI ropes and then SEPARATE tow ropes designed to pull six for pulling tubes / towables even though the most we can pull with any of our half dozen different towables is three adults.)
The other neat thing about “using the right tool (or rope) for the job is that THEY COME WITH HOOKS specifically designed not only to attach to the back of the boat BUT ALSO are rated for appropriate weight capacities! See attached photos …
Finally, take a few moments and watch this video (and maybe even a couple others) - there isn’t a whole heckuva lot to be aware of but, what there is will make it a lot more fun for everyone in involved (this video starts addressing the appropriate lines (or ropes) to use at the 2:50 minute mark):
(There have been some pretty horrific tragedies when people try to “learn as they go along” or, by “trial and error” when it comes to pulling humans behind a boat with most among the most common being persons behind the boat winding up with a rope wrapped around them (waist, leg, arm, neck).
There is at least one near disaster involving a slack rope getting wrapped around a young adult posted by a member here on CSR but, I wouldn’t even begin to remember how to find it. I know it took a lot of guts for that member to post it up and it still serves as a reminder to me …