There has been talk here on the forum for a few weeks about the new mirror from Protomet
http://www.skiboatmirror.com/
This is a waterski forum so how excited can we be about a boat mirror? I took the mirror to the lake today and put it on my friend Charlie's 196. It is "pretty" and well made. The mounting bracket is a marvel of modern CNC work but the question is
do we really care? and Is it worth the money to upgrade your mirror?There were four of us on the dock. The first two people that drove both commented that they found themselves staring in the mirror while they were driving. It was different enough that it was distracting. After a few passes it was not distracting, it was just better.
The short answer to all the questions is
yes we were all very impressed. When in the course I personally do not look in the mirror much if at all. But when idling around between passes I like to always know where my skier is. This mirror gives the widest and clearest vision of what is behind me that I've ever seen.
If you spent $40-$60,000 on your boat I would say a few hundred dollars for superior mirror should be an easy choice.
If you don't have a third person to ski with and you watch your ski partner in the mirror, this is the best thing going.
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John, do you have to loosen anything to fold it down/forward or is it a smooth friction movement? We cover the 196 at "the swamp" so we push the mirror down and cover when we leave...pop it up when we return to ski. Thanks.
The mirror and the RTS-100 bracket. The MC windshield bracket fits the RTS-100.
http://www.skiboatmirror.com/store/#ecwid:category=1946203&mode=product&product=8366583
http://images-cdn.ecwid.com/images/873210/25278835.jpg
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I use to have one of those but the desert heat caused the glue that holds the mirrors in place to soften and they kept falling out. Also was a pain to be able to use the walk through to the bow cause the mirror had to be removed.
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I wanted get the mirror in service before looking at the other windshield bracket
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When I had that mirror, I had it for about a year before the heat got to the adhesive. I really liked the full view with out the wide angle distortion on the Cipa extreme or other factory mirrors. The fish eye distortion kinda makes me dizzy. This new mirror is very wide angle but no distortion what so ever.
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