12 Years this week. Thank you Ballers!

Horton

S1Pitts

Congrats! This site has definitely influenced my last 2 ski purchases. Both turned out awesome thanks to the quality info posted here. Horton rocks.!

pregom

Excellent work! Do the valleys in pageviews correspond to summers? Are we skiing less and day dreaming more during winters?

Horton

@pregom peaks are August. This August for the first time ever there were more than 1 Million page views for the month.

thager

I see page views go down after you got rid of Scot Chipmans!

DW

12 years, holy c**p time flies! Seems like I was on the Coyote Bros site yesterday.

Horton

@dw it's actually longer than you think. It has been 12 years since this site was rebuilt in its current form. The Slalom Tweakers dates back to 2003-ish.

Bulldog

@horton Thank you again for running this site. It is a huge part of a daily routine for so many people.

ALPJr

That’s a nice looking trend. Good job BOS

buoyboy1

Was that chart used to help design the Whisper Fin Pro?

thager

Kinda looks like a whale tail!

Stefan

@Horton it says on my profile I joined May 2007? What did I join since that's more than 12 years ago? Also, have to admit I’ve been away from skiing since 2012 and came back last year, both to skiing an BoS. Happy to be back 😀

Cooper_Trelawney

This site has become arguably the most valuable resource for news and information pertaining to waterskiing. I'm glad it exists. Thanks for putting it together and keeping it going. I'm sure there have been some days....

6balls

Can anyone imagine life without BOS?

ForrestGump

Would life without Horton be worth living?

dbaconaz

Thanks for the work and keeping BOS going!!

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Luzz

Congrats John, and thank you for this great resource!

Skoot1123

Congrats John - certainly see the cycle of visitors with the graph. Now the question is, how do we fill in the trough to make it more of a flat curve moving forward. That would be pretty sweet.

Horton

@Stefan the site was extremely small until I built the site that is BallOfSpray as it is now. It is from that point that I count the years. If you want to count from the real genesis of the community it's closer to 18 years.

Horton

@Skoot1123 it is a summer focused sport. The peaks and valleys in the page view graph don't bother me at all. They continued growth of the community is the thing that I most proud of.

Bruce_Butterfield

@Skoot1123 we can all move to Australia during the winter. That will do the trick!

OldGuysRule

I hate to admit how addicted I am to this site! I check it every day! Keep up the good work!

cougfan

@Horton first off great job on the site! I blame @Rednucleus for introducing me to BOS. Before i knew anything about it my life was so empty and I had more free time on my hands😂😉 now I check it regularly and keep the ballers informed of the adventures of the Wednesday night crew (Doug, Ken, @Rednucleus and myself) thanks for a fun and useful site.
Here is wishing BOS a Happy Birthday and many more to come!

Rednucleus

Pleas understand your graphs are all so tall because I click here about 10,000 times a day

VONMAN

12 years Wow! Happy Birthday BOS. Came across my Carbon Fin I bought many years ago the other day.