1990 MC ProStar 190 - On Water || N3 Boatworks

[@TheDerekpreston]

Lot of great memories on this boat, was sad to see it go. The next owner will enjoy it very much!!

[@Mancamp1000]

You are 100% correct about the safe t-top and the power slot option 454 was an option and you should have a net with that safety top removable brackets made out of plexiglass was an option on that safety top and they only came in white or black

[@tedschmitt178]

I want that boat!

[@jameselrod6448]

Love that boat

[@artvandelay8090]

What's the purpose of that bar thing, looks like a spoiler. Seems that all it would do is get in the way. Can it be removed?

[@n3boatworks]

That is called the “ProTour Bar” and it originally had a net that spanned underneath it from side to side and top to bottom. A short line slalom skier can be on a 37’ ski line while going through the course. With the tow line fully loaded up on a cut if the skier let’s go the rope will recoil slingshot into the boat. The net was suppose to protect the driver and judges. So it has a purpose, arguably looks cool and is a definite PITA. Yes it can be removed.

[@artvandelay8090]

@@n3boatworks Oh, OK. Yeah, I get it about the rope issue. I was show skier, we were at practice one day and a guy was going to do boat-O's. He was using a slalom rope and on the dock start he jumped early and started to sink. He sank to the point where he should have just let go of the rope and aborted the dock start, but he tried to hang on and ride it out. The rope stretched a lot before the handle just snapped out of his hands and that thing sling-shotted right toward the boat. The driver was just turning his head to see what was going on and the rope handle caught him in the face just under the eye, ripped his face open and broke his cheek bone. He needed internal and external stitches on that one. Bad day. If they had used a barefoot rope instead, none of that would have happened. I forget which is the stretchy-er rope, the polyethylene or the polypropylene?

[@n3boatworks]

Holy crap that is horrifying!!

[@artvandelay8090]

@@n3boatworks If you think that's horrifying, I've got an even better one for you. I guess it's more horrifying because it happened to me. I was doing a dock start for a trio run, this is the one where two guys on harnesses sit side by side on the dock each with their arms braced to the back straps of each other's harnesses. The girls sits right between them on their arms. I had my left hand braced to the other guy, my right hand is holding the rope which is looped up. As the boat rolls out, you let each loop roll off one-at-a-time until there's about 2 loops left and then you drop the loops and grab the little 5-inch hand peg (instead of a handle) and then ski off the dock. Once you're underway, both hands are free to do all kinds of lifts and tricks with the girl. I had done hundreds of successful dock starts like this, but you do anything enough times, something weird is bound to happen sooner or later. This one time, as I went to grab the peg, the last loop of the rope wrapped around my wrist and part of it slid right over my thumb and I took off from the dock with all of that force, half of the girls weight, plus my own and the force of the boat pulling us off the dock wrapped around my wrist and thumb. I couldn't use my other hand to pull in on the rope and unwrap it because it was braced to the other guy's harness. If I let go with the other hand, the whole trio would have crashed. So I got pulled by the thumb for about 100 ft before the driver pulled the trick release and released us. We were trying to signal the spotter to pull the pin, but she thought that we wanted the boat to speed up, which it did! Anyway, the driver heard me yelling, turned around and saw what was going on and he pulled the release himself. So the moral of that story is, don't ski on a harness or toe-hold with a novice pin-puller who doesn't have a backup/mentor sitting there with them. I ended up with a fractures in two separate sections of the thumb. It wouldn't have been nearly as bad if the pin-puller had been experienced and pulled it right away. Being towed for an agony-filled 100 ft. by the thumb was a painful human experience and that pain lasted a long time, like the gift that just kept giving. Couldn't ski for a while, either.

[@laxbro9705]

Did this sell?

[@n3boatworks]

Yes it is sold.

[@matthewurban9668]

I bet that thing flat out is a missle

[@mcraft2240]

Not much of a run there at the end. Maybe it was the fuel consumption of that 454 they had to take into consideration. 😂

[@n3boatworks]

😂