best option for a boat under 20K

honestbaagel · Ollie Joined: 05 Aug 2010 Posts: 67 City: Huntington

Hey guys,

Ive been skating for about ten years now. In the beginning it was 2 or 3 times a summer (live in NY). 3 years ago my buddy bought a chapparel so we started to ride 3 or 4 times a week, as you can imagine, we got much better and this was very exiting.

We live on a bay which can be pretty choppy, there is a cove where they allow skiers to ride if the boat is 21 ft and under. For this reason I bought a jetski, we had our fun practicing flip tricks on the glassy inlet, but the jetskis are a pain to have an observer, multiple boards or girls on. Also jetskis are no good for W2W fun.

Basically we want a boat 21 ft or under, with a tower and fat sacks that will give us a nice pop over the wake. problem is Im not loaded and cant drop 40k on a used xstar, which seems to be the choice ride of the richer riders in the area.

I've been looking around online and found a couple of Moombas for about 10k. I have no experience with these boats, ppl on other forums kind of indicate they are more of a skiers boat.

I will be towing this boat every time to salt water.

Any input would be much appreciated, Thanks - Honest bAAgel

POPTART · 360 flip Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 7621

skiers boats are the best, you can get any boat really and have fun
steer clear from an inboard/outboard

just small ourboards and small direct drive ski boats

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Lollar, haha have you seen the dubstep remix to that video? Pretty much the only time I've ever approved the use of dubstep.

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Sagittorious · Posted: Sep 20, 2012 11:26 am Post subject:

Lollar, awesome gif with the movies I missed all the different horrified facial expressions.

Slapdown · Kickflip Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 4240 City: Austin

Ski boats are definitely where it's at for skating. Unless you're planning on being the next Grubb, wakeboard boats aren't really anything I'd even want to have. A good start would be to look up a Nautique 2001 (2001 is the model name, not the year) and MasterCraft Stars & Stripes. Two solid, low-profile ski boats that you can easily get under $10k. I think you can find newer ski boats with all the bells and whistles for under $20k too, but they'll ride pretty much the same.

Then of course there are john boats which are a favourite among the members here, partly because of their low cost, and partly because their wakes are a bit of a middle ground between a ski and a typical wakeboard/ski boat.

As far as the Moomba, I can't say much about long term reliability, but i've ridden behind several and I can dig them. They're made by Supra so I'd say that's a plus.

jeff · Posted: Sep 20, 2012 12:03 pm Post subject:

Coricluster's selling his Nautique 2001. Wake is great for any w2w tricks on a skate. Go buy it! Its in Ocean City Maryland.

Newer wake boats are gay. Chicks dig old boats. I learned this first hand.

t-rex · Backside 180 Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 2007 City: Denver

overstreet31 · Posted: Sep 20, 2012 2:10 pm Post subject:

t-rex, http://www.wakeskating.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34332 towards the bottom of post

honestbaagel · Ollie Joined: 05 Aug 2010 Posts: 67 City: Huntington

Thanks for the input guys,

A couple of years ago someone with an X2 saw us skating behind our jetski and offered me a tow. I hit the huge wake balls out and flew higher than I thought was possible, landing in the flats and cracking my wood bi-level in half. I've been chasing that high ever since..

Ive been reading this forum for years and know a bit about the john boats, could they throw a wake that would send me flying like a wakeboard boat?

- Embarassed

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