WATER SKIING

Always follow safe towing procedures. The term skiing or towing implies you are pulling a person or persons behind your boat. This includes pulling skiers, wakeboarders, tubers, kiters, or any other evolution where a person is in the water and being pulled by a boat. The person being pulled should always wear a properly fitted PFD.

No person may operate a motorboat on any waters of Mississippi while towing a person on water skis, or on an aquaplane or similar device, without an observer in the boat, in addition to the operator. The observer must be older than 10 years of age .

Note: The provisions for an observer do not apply to a person engaged in a professional exhibition or a person participating in an official regatta, motorboat race, marine parade, tournament or exhibition.

• Never operate or manipulate any motorboat, tow rope or other device by which the direction or location of water skis, aquaplane, or similar device may be affected or controlled in such a way as to cause the water skis, aquaplane, or similar device, or any person thereon to collide or strike against any object or person, except slalom buoys, ski jumps or like objects used normally in competitive or recreational skiing.
• Never allow teak-surfing. The potential for carbon monoxide poisoning and propeller injury are significant.
• Recommended safe towing practices include: using a wide-angle mirror to keep an eye on the skier and raising a skier flag anytime a skier is in the water.