Ski boats

[Oregonhunter5]

When I was a kid a master craft was $30,000 new. Now they are $145,000.

Let me say this with clarity. I suck at fishing. But I'd rather own a fishing boat than a ski boat.

I'd also like pontoon party barge.

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[notazombie]

Yup. It's insane. And you need $80k worth of diesel ridiculousness to tow one too, apparently.

 

[v0lcom13sn0w]

wanna play, you gonna pay

 

[edslhead]

Nothins cheap these days.

 

[notazombie]

Doesn't have to be like that.

Hey, @Oregonhunter5. My dad has a sweet vintage Nautique going up for sale in July. Probably about 3% the cost of a new one.

 

[USMC1911]

Just like anything the more crap ya add the price goes up. New boats with bigger more fuel efficient motors, tons of electronics, huge auto fill ballasts, room for 10+ people ect ect. Try getting 400+hp small block 30 years ago and you have a very finicky motor. High end anything costs high end money. You think ski boats are spendy imo fishing boats for what you get are pretty bad also.

 

[HB of CJ]

Over 50 years ago we had a plywood/fiberglass Howard 18 foot ski boat. Her name was the "Glug Glug" because she kept getting sunk by her own wake slowing down. A 12" high glassed nicely done padded hull coaming was added aft. More free board.

Various engines we could find cheap and marine convert were employed. Our favorite was a stock 409 5 ton truck engine. With the speed prop about 60 mph. With the ski power prop about 50. Cascale V drive with a reverse gear. Ran OK,. Hard on gas.

Slow despite its looks. Boy that thing could accelerate fast. I will not tell you the stories. It was also very fun. We could not have had more than $3000 in the whole experience but this was 50+ years ago. The bow area was foamed in . We needed it. Glug glug.

 

[308]

Doesn't have to be like that.

Hey, @Oregonhunter5. My dad has a sweet vintage Nautique going up for sale in July. Probably about 3% the cost of a new one.
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Why does it have a roll bar?

 

[notazombie]

Because sprint boat

 

[11Charlie]

Why does it have a roll bar?

Wake board tower it allows you to get more air!! Believe me they work that's how I blew my knee out!

 

[Oregonhunter5]

My azzzhole brother had one of those $120,000 fishing boats. We had 7 people in there and it wouldn't plane. What a joke! Needed two engines

 

[v0lcom13sn0w]

Wake board tower it allows you to get more air!! Believe me they work that's how I blew my knee out!

when i was a kid, we had one of those flying manta ray tubes... combined with a tower im talkin 25 feet off the water. brother, it HURT when youd wipe out too.

last i heard, theyve been outlawed since.


heres an example i found on youtube:

 

[mkwerx]

My azzzhole brother had one of those $120,000 fishing boats. We had 7 people in there and it wouldn't plane. What a joke! Needed two engines

All factory and semi custom boats come underpowered for economy.

If you want a fun boat for a decent price, a Lowe fish & ski will do both. Its essentially a Midwestern Walleye boat with bow mount electric and ski rope cleats, with a full windshield. Probably about $25k new, half that used.

 

[Ura-Ki]

Boatz, a great big hole in the water you pour buckets of money into! I bought my classic 1977 Mako 29 footer as a wreck after Katrina, paid $1300 for the 3 axle trailer, and $400 for the hull. Over the next year, I put no more then $12000 into it, mainly the hot Ford V8 and American Turbine Pump, and it's the sweetest long range fishing boat EVER!
Not that bad on gas, has a 340 nautical mile range on 75 gallons of fuel! Only wish I had gone diesel power, I don't really need to go fast! It cruises nicely at 45 mph all day and can fish 7 rods comfortably! Before that, I had a $75k ThunderJet, great boat, but I never needed all that big block power, and the fuel costs really sucked!

 

[No_Regerts]

Nothing is worse for a bass fisherman than wake boarding boats. You have your back to the main lake and you're standing up in your boat. Then some koch-monger in a ski boat can't have the courtesy to not plow through the water within 20 yards.

 

[mkwerx]

Nothing is worse for a bass fisherman than wake boarding boats. You have your back to the main lake and you're standing up in your boat. Then some koch-monger in a ski boat can't have the courtesy to not plow through the water within 20 yards.

Yup.

Was fishing a few years back with a friend down on the Willamette. Douche in a wakeboat kept buzzing us, getting closer every pass. After one where they were literally about 30 feet out, by bud, the boat owner and a FT leo stands up, made a show of removing his jacket as they came in fir another pass. Big gold badge right next to a Glock 21 made them veer away and find a new stretch of water to play on. Despite them being so close, we could not get boat numbers off the thing, or we'd have called the river patrol. White & red wakeboat with 3 azzholes in it is not descriptive enough on that river.

 

[No_Regerts]

Yup.

Was fishing a few years back with a friend down on the Willamette. Douche in a wakeboat kept buzzing us, getting closer every pass. After one where they were literally about 30 feet out, by bud, the boat owner and a FT leo stands up, made a show of removing his jacket as they came in fir another pass. Big gold badge right next to a Glock 21 made them veer away and find a new stretch of water to play on. Despite them being so close, we could not get boat numbers off the thing, or we'd have called the river patrol. White & red wakeboat with 3 azzholes in it is not descriptive enough on that river.

Whats nice is your average bass boat can easily outrun a ski boat.

 

[mkwerx]

Yep, except when the water is a wavey mess from 300 wakeboats all going by in different directions.

 

[No_Regerts]

Yep, except when the water is a wavey mess from 300 wakeboats all going by in different directions.

A little air never hurt anyone, right?

 

[mkwerx]

Nothing dialasys can't fix!