Which boat to buy need help! moomba or centurion?

Yuri · Raley Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 1977 City: orlando

Okay can you guys give me your opinions on just these 2 boats the black is moomba and the blue is centurion! ill give you pics please tell me which one to buy by the way there both the same price at 25,900.00 click on the link for the specs and stuff!

Moomba
http://www.boattraderonline.com/addetail.html?50285326

Centurion
http://adcache.boattraderonline.com/6/1/6/44339516.htm

thanks waiting for replys!

Yuri · Raley Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 1977 City: orlando

come on anybody with some opinions i need to know which one 2 buy!

greg van wagnen · Posted: Oct 12, 2003 10:20 pm Post subject:

are you going to mostly wakeskate behind it or wakeboard?

wakesk8r9610 · Backside 180 Joined: 23 Sep 2003 Posts: 1267

buy an x-star Laughing

greg van wagnen · Posted: Oct 12, 2003 10:23 pm Post subject:

id probably go with the momba but i dont know much about either of these boats.

Yuri · Raley Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 1977 City: orlando

greg van wagnen, wakeskate mostly thats not why i`m not going to by $50,000.00 wakeboard boat a decent wake and a tower!

greg van wagnen · Posted: Oct 12, 2003 11:06 pm Post subject:

id say the momba but again i dont know much about these boats. can i come and ride when you get it? Laughing

ill bring gas

Yuri · Raley Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 1977 City: orlando

greg van wagnen, sure but i dont know when i will get it!

Yuri · Raley Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 1977 City: orlando

what happend 2 cassette51 or something like that he knew alot about centurions

greg van wagnen · Posted: Oct 12, 2003 11:19 pm Post subject:

i talk to him on aol sometimes and hes been lookin at trucks lately and just bought one so hes out playing with his truck i think. he hasnt posted much lately though so i dont know.

Mumble · Faceplant Joined: 12 Oct 2003 Posts: 27

I have the Centurion, I don't know how you found it that cheap though. I got mine in 2001 for about 70 grand Canadian.

I think it's a sick boat, the wake is really good for wakeskating. It's not too steep, and it has a little lip at the top that pops you up. You don't have to have the weight distributed perfectly to keep the wake even on each side, which is nice compared to Nautiques and Moombas cause they seem to need to be perfectly balanced in my experience.

A guy I know has that Moomba and I've ridden behind it a couple of times. The wake is nice and clean even if you weight the boat down a lot, but it's harder to keep the wake even on each side like I said before.

I'd say the boats are pretty even as far as wake goes. I'm not sure how much weight you need in the Moomba to have a good size wake, the one I rode behind had 3 350 pound fat sacks in it, and the wake was massive. In my boat (the Centurion), we just ride with the stock ballast and 6 to 8 18 litre water jugs, plus 5 or 6 people and the wake is really nice.

The Centurion is finished really nicely inside with high quality materials, which is the one major thing that I think is better than the Moomba. The Moomba just seems cheap, with a fibreglass swim platform instead of teak and stuff like that.

I've ridden behind pretty much everything, Nautiques, Malibu, Moomba, Calabria, and I ride behind an X-Star and Centurion regularly.

Even between the X-Star and the Centurion I prefer the Centurion cause it's easier to get a decent sized wake and the shape of the wake keeps the board on your feet easily.

Sorry for the really long post, I just thought you could use some good information to decide which boat is better.

I'd go with the Centurion personally.

Mumble · Faceplant Joined: 12 Oct 2003 Posts: 27

Damn, I just realized the Moomba and Centurion you're talking about are direct drive.

The Moomba and Centurion I was talking about are V-Drive's...

But I guess you can still get the idea. That Centurion is still probably finished nicer.

Yuri · Raley Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 1977 City: orlando

Mumble, but is your centurion a wakeboard boat because the only problem is that the centurion is a ski/wakeboard with a tower but its mostly a ski boat and the moomba is a wakeboard boat!

Mumble · Faceplant Joined: 12 Oct 2003 Posts: 27

yeah mine's a wakeboard boat, so I don't really know what to tell you.

If I were you, I'd try riding behind both boats if possible, or even just go for a ride in them and take a look at the wake.

wcwakeskater · Posted: Oct 13, 2003 6:57 pm Post subject:

i like the moomba's looks better Crazy Eyes

wake-till-i-die · Pop Shuvit Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 166 City: orlando

dude the one at moore marine is right at my high school its like downthe road from it

Hi · Pop Shuvit Joined: 23 Sep 2003 Posts: 124 City: Jupiter

you can get those boats for 25????????

Id go with the moomba i dont know why

Parky · Guest

moomba

Yuri · Raley Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 1977 City: orlando

Hi, yeah why?

Richard Fitz · Faceplant Joined: 16 Oct 2003 Posts: 2

...just get an IO and save hella cash.....
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