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- Messages
- 204
- Reaction score
- 118
- Points
- 152
- Location
- Montross, VA
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2008
- Boat Model
- SX
- Boat Length
- 23
Decision time.. I’ve been waiting to upgrade from a 2008 230HO. Would you go for the 2025 AR250 with the 1.9 and mod it out with upgrades? I love the new space blue color and the deletion of the table behind the captains chair for more seating.
Or.. get a used 2023 255XD with the 1.8svho for not too much more money? Love the fact that it’s faster and the trim is more lux. The kids have never wake surfed, but I can see getting them into it. Don’t like the hard ballasts that take up so much room. Not a fan of the table that cuts into the seating.
Just don’t know if I’d be better off with a newer 1.9 that’s naturally aspirated, quieter and has the 4 blade impellers. I want to stay away from drive x on the newer models that don’t have a rudder and can’t take fins because of the new reverse buckets. I can dock just fine and would rather have better tracking through rougher water and carving through turns.
Would I be really missing out on E-throttles with the AR?
Does the new 1.9 feel close enough to the SVHO or are they still night and day?
Thoughts?
Or.. get a used 2023 255XD with the 1.8svho for not too much more money? Love the fact that it’s faster and the trim is more lux. The kids have never wake surfed, but I can see getting them into it. Don’t like the hard ballasts that take up so much room. Not a fan of the table that cuts into the seating.
Just don’t know if I’d be better off with a newer 1.9 that’s naturally aspirated, quieter and has the 4 blade impellers. I want to stay away from drive x on the newer models that don’t have a rudder and can’t take fins because of the new reverse buckets. I can dock just fine and would rather have better tracking through rougher water and carving through turns.
Would I be really missing out on E-throttles with the AR?
Does the new 1.9 feel close enough to the SVHO or are they still night and day?
Thoughts?
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