haknslash
Jetboaters Fleet Admiral
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- Location
- Lake Martin, AL
- Boat Make
- Moomba
- Year
- 2019
- Boat Model
- Other
- Boat Length
- 23
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I think I have been drooling too much over your posts. I ended up on the moomba website build feature. It is getting hard to resist. Which engine did you go with again? Which prop? Do you happen to know what top speed is with the big engine and a prop that leans a bit more towards speed? What is best cruise? I may be dreaming a bit as I would likely be divorced if I brought home a new boat right now but perhaps I can start working on her now and have a new boat a couple years down the road.Finally going to have decent weather on a weekend! Taking her out Saturday on beautiful Lake Martin to try and knock out some more break-in hours.
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ha, I opened the website as well. Then I almost slapped myself and thought: Dude! you have a 2 month old boat! haha.I think I have been drooling too much over your posts. I ended up on the moomba website build feature. It is getting hard to resist. Which engine did you go with again? Which prop? Do you happen to know what top speed is with the big engine and a prop that leans a bit more towards speed? What is best cruise? I may be dreaming a bit as I would likely be divorced if I brought home a new boat right now but perhaps I can start working on her now and have a new boat a couple years down the road.
I’m still doing my break-in so I can’t comment on best cruise or top speed. I have the Raptor 400 with the surf prop (15 x 13 OJ 945). My salesman told me with that prop top speed will be around the 40 mph range but I doubt I’ll drive those speeds and will cruise in the 25-30 mph range. The speed on these boats for some reason seems faster than it is and maybe some of that is sound affecting my brain or maybe I’m just not as big into speed anymore lol....I don’t know. You could prop the boat for more speed but that sort of defeats the purpose of these boats especially if you wanted to run more ballast over what comes stock. I had no desires or even thought about top speed when we were testing the boat during maiden voyage.I think I have been drooling too much over your posts. I ended up on the moomba website build feature. It is getting hard to resist. Which engine did you go with again? Which prop? Do you happen to know what top speed is with the big engine and a prop that leans a bit more towards speed? What is best cruise? I may be dreaming a bit as I would likely be divorced if I brought home a new boat right now but perhaps I can start working on her now and have a new boat a couple years down the road.
They’ll probably have the nice 7” screen in them by then . Thanks man! I can’t wait to spend the first full day on it tomorrow!!I've got one more vehicle and a new dirtbike to pay off. Then in 2021 I'm getting a Max as well. Stoked for you dude.
Damnit, this fad is going to cause prices to keep going up up up. Maybe an economy crash would be good for us boaters in recession proof jobs.I've got one more vehicle and a new dirtbike to pay off. Then in 2021 I'm getting a Max as well. Stoked for you dude.
It's funny - I was sort of worried about speed when I started investigating wakeboats and figured I'd still want to cruise 30+ like we always seemed to do in our Yamaha. Seeing people post on wake forums about top speeds in the mid/high 30s had me nervous. However, since getting our MB I find that we tend to cruise right around 25 and I haven't missed cruising faster at all. Not a Moomba, but in our MB with the Raptor 400, 1.76:1 transmission, and the original 15X14.25 prop top speed was about 36. With a 15X15.75 prop, top speed is right at 40. It hits top RPM (5400) well before it runs out of throttle so I suppose I could prop it for another 5+ mph on top, but why? That would give away ballast pulling ability, which is not acceptable to me. We surf with about 4,500 - 5,000 pounds of ballast onboard, wakeboard with up to 3,000 (not me - that is a SCARY wake!), or drain and cruise 25 at 3500 rpm and all is right with the world.I think I have been drooling too much over your posts. I ended up on the moomba website build feature. It is getting hard to resist. Which engine did you go with again? Which prop? Do you happen to know what top speed is with the big engine and a prop that leans a bit more towards speed? What is best cruise? I may be dreaming a bit as I would likely be divorced if I brought home a new boat right now but perhaps I can start working on her now and have a new boat a couple years down the road.
It's GatorStep (like SeaDek stuff) just like the flooring is. They added a lot of little pad details in the interior for 2019. I wished I had splurged and got the bow are and gunnels done with the boat but I'll do it eventually. Almost busted my ass trying to get off the bow onto the trailer when pulling the boat outWhat is on the dash (seadeck looking) between phone cutout and screen?