I Finnaly water skipped my 97 polaris XC600 - Snowmobile Forum: Your #1 Snowmobile Forum

AMFRacing1997 · 09-17-2008, 07:49 AM

It was AWSOME!! All the flooding in south west michigan and northern indiana caused some ditches to flood. It was about a 1/4 mile stretch and only about 4 feet deep, so i figured, why not. Now i posted toward the begining of the year about wanting to do this, and it was the perfect spot and i quit being a chicken and finally did it. There are a few videos on youtube, This on was my first run ever on the water YouTube - 1997 Polaris XC 600 triple on water I have a still shot, but until i download it on my computer instead of my brothers, i cant post it on here. I will be going back out today except to a diffrent location as long as it is still flooded.
Let me know what you think.

-Mike

YouTube - Snowmobile Skipping
YouTube - Snowmobile Skipping 3
YouTube - Snowmobile Skipping 2 one wasent as good as the rest

JheLrey · 09-17-2008, 02:51 PM

Nice... I will look at them later!

Bandit · 09-17-2008, 09:03 PM

What were you just cruising down the interstate and decided to stop and water skip? Haha. Right next to the highway makes it all the better

IndianRvrShiver · 09-17-2008, 11:30 PM

Nice rooster-tail!! Now.....if you could pull a water skier, that would be sweet!!

AMFRacing1997 · 09-18-2008, 03:41 AM

yeah, it was atually CR17 which leads to the 80/90 tool road in indiana. But it is usually a very busy area. The 20 or 30 cars that did pass i dont think have ever seen anything like it because they slowed down to a creep while i was going. It was pretty cool. Yeah, the rooster tail shoot out pretty good as well, i didnt even know it was doing it until i saw the video. I figured it would just look like i was gliding like most of the videos i see. My track has a staggerd paddle (i think thats what they call it) instead of the paddles going in a straight line, they stagger around the track and they are a 1" paddle, so i am kind of leary to get up to the water slow and then nail it becasue i dont know if it's going to "dig" itself into the water or if it would be alright. I want to go to this other place i found, but i will have to creep to the water then nail it, plus i'm gonna have to turn which didnt seem all that difficult. it wouldnt be much of a turn.

JheLrey · 09-18-2008, 01:33 PM

It looks like the video #2, there is a fence post in the middle of the water.

AMFRacing1997 · 09-21-2008, 08:56 PM

i got the picture posted in the action shots forum.... It is kind of blurry, but you can still see what it is.