I am having the samw problem.....dont know the answer.  I wish someone could give me one.

Try to think about finishing your arc on your on-side turn.  Don't concern yourself with angle, just finishing a smooth arc.  Make sure that your arms are straight from finish of the turn through the edge change.  After you let go with your outside hand, focus on skiing away from the handle, not reaching in toward the boat.  Keep skiing away until you feel the slightest bump from the rope, this is the end of the line and marks the apex of your turn.  Now its time to repeat from the top of the paragraph.  A key thing to remember is that you will never win a battle against the boat.  Instead of fighting the boat, make really smooth turns and go with the boat.

Just to add my thoughts to this:

Oftentimes speed is not the issue, it is the direction of this speed that is super-important.  Coming from your on-side turn, we all have a tendency to stay on the cutting edge/pulling edge far too long.  As you hold this "pull" past the wakes, your direction follows the path of the handle. After you cross the centerline, your direction arcs further and further down-course...giving you down-course speed rather than speed out to the apex of the turn.  This is not to say that you need to stop pulling at the center of the wakes...quite to the contrary actually.  It is important to maintain power through the wakes, but start to move the ski out onto the turning edge so the ski can start to release out and continue to carry direction outbound.  This will help you maintain a tigher line at the finish of the turn and therefore generate much more speed and angle from your off-side turn..thus balancing out your course skiing.  MAke any sense?

Chris and Seth, you guys are really hitting on something here.  Bruce Butterfield made a comment one day on BOS that really got me to thinking along these lines. He said that the real difference between a 28 off skier, a 35-38 off skier, and a 39-41 off skier is handle control. I kept hearing people around here say "drive the handle towards the shoreline" in order to maintain direction out to the apex. But never really understood that. In fact, I think that's a terrible way to explain what it is they're talking about. lol. Until I popped Slash in and saw Jamie B and Chris ski from the front. Of course, this is at the time of year when the boat hasn't left the garage for a month thanks to the weather! lol

men,i prefer to back up the truck when i teach my buddies.9 out of ten skiers will never get their work done behind the boat.watch a video of yourself in slow motion and see if you started to rise up towards the boat before you got to the second wake.show yourself to the boat before this point and your toast.andy mapple is the godfather of this discipline.most people get locked and loaded and panic because of the speed they have generated and open themselves to the boat to soon.drew ross says dont fear speed, fear the bad direction that comes from lack of speed. get this right and i bet the rest of your game takes care of itself.