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That is my sentiment as well. I like the old 230s for that very reason, you get that high freeboard/gunwale all around including in the rear, wherein the 2015+ 240/242s have a very low back cushions/support. It is not ideal for comfort and secure feeling for many passengers I noticed, especially with small kids.
My thoughts exactly. If your gonna make it 3 ft longer dont just turn the ass end into a sun bed. Id almost bet it will hold about the same amount of people the 24s do.
Yep, I never like the rear bench area of my 242. It dipped down very low in the center and did not provide much back support for passengers. That's one thing I like about most of the wake boats. They have complete wrap around seating with high back support in rear of boat.
It's a step!
Hopefully it folds out of the way somehow. Otherwise I think it will be more of a trip hazard than a step.
I don’t know. I guess it’s all in the eye of the beholder but to me even the entry level wake bots are a much higher quality than the Yamaha boats. The fabric material alone is better not to mention the stitching, density of the foam and general fit of the upholstery is better in most of those boats. The exception being the Mastercraft NXT or Heyday’s IMO. Not sure I agree with the budget boats being “bare bones” either. Most of them come with the same surf technology as their more expensive product lines. You just don’t get as nice of extra appointments such as power towers, LED RGB cockpit or underboat lighting, multiple touch screens, etc. You also don’t get those features on a similarly priced Yamaha either. The seat thickness on a Yamaha is like 2.5” or so. It’s not very thick and the seats feel hard by comparison to a Moomba, Axis, MB etc. You also get much higher freeboard as you found out and can see how much safer and nicer that feels inside the boat. With a Yamaha the deepest area is near the helm but it tapers off towards the bow and stern after that. This doesn’t even begin to get into all the things you can’t see that make up the overall build quality. I mean one look at the way Yamaha performs an anchor locker drain install should tell you something about what they think about quality vs what the customer is willing to put up with. When you add that all up and you’re able to fully customize the boats looks, it just makes the Yamaha’s feel expensive and sort of cookie cutter for what they are, at least to me anyways.
The seatbacks look like they are on "arms" and would rotate back.
I see what they were going for but they of all people should know it’s a trip hazard. After all they did redesign the swim step access in 2014 or so to have a more surer footing area. The new wing steps just don’t seem like a smart design other than someone thinking adding wings to a boat somehow makes it look cool, which is debatable. Personally I think it looks stupid. Wings belong on true Hydrofoil jet boats IMHO.
That’s until someone is in a tight dock situation and rotates the stern under the dock and you’ll just rip it off now
Yep, they need some seadeck
Do you think they might be on a track and slide back and forth?
