Craigs results with the BH (and planing) are obviously better than mine.....and probably what you can expect.
If you really want to snap a skier up, go with a jet drive. Pulls super hard! We use to have fun with the tournament ski boat guys (that's pre-wake board boat times...for you youngins). They'd make fun of the jet, so we'd talk them into doing a beach start behind my boat. They'd always take two or three coils of slack....and then I'd hammer it. Often, it would literally pull them right out of their ski.......and their arms were considerably longer after that.