Patent ID: 7109871

Claim:
A water skier alert system used with a boat towing a water skier via a rope and a skier tow bar handle assembly comprising: a radio receiver that is adapted to be positioned on a boat towing a water skier for receiving wireless radio signals transmitted from a skier tow bar handle assembly that are indicative of a skier down condition or a desired water skier condition; an indicator operative with the receiver for indicating a skier down condition or a desired water skier condition as actuated by the wireless radio signals transmitted from the skier tow bar handle assembly; and wherein said skier tow bar handle assembly comprises a tow bar handle and a wireless radio transmitter for generating wireless signals indicative of a skier down condition or desired water skier condition, a water activated switch carried by said wireless radio transmitter that triggers said wireless radio transmitter to transmit a wireless radio signal indicative of a skier down condition, and a wrist strap engaging said switch.