soggyshoes
Jet Boat Addict
- Messages
- 174
- Reaction score
- 81
- Points
- 117
- Location
- Lake Oswego, Oregon
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2014
- Boat Model
- X
- Boat Length
- 21
Yes jdonalds, I was lucky enough to get the boat I have been dreaming about. About 8 years ago about 10 of my buddies rented a Yamaha in Las Vegas. We were shocked how well it pulled up a skier with so many guys and beverages in the boat. We all loved so many features in that boat. We even had one engine go down and were amazed at how well the boat moved 10 us with just one motor.
When we had kids my wife wanted a boat to take the family on that was a 'nice' boat (not a fishing boat). So I had been looking for a used one for a long time and there are none in the NW which says a lot. When the top selling boat has no used listings people must really be happy with their purchases. So I was justifying more and more for a new one. Meanwhile my wife saw there were a lot of used boats like Bayliners for 1/5 and thought we should just get something like that. In all this I convinced my wife to go with me to the boat show as a control so I 'wouldn't do something stupid'. She saw the 212x before she knew it was the boat I wanted and said if we got one we should get that one. Then once she got in it and it was game over.
The lesson is never, ever go to a boat show. Your kids will be stuck with a public education but grow up on the coolest boat around.
When we had kids my wife wanted a boat to take the family on that was a 'nice' boat (not a fishing boat). So I had been looking for a used one for a long time and there are none in the NW which says a lot. When the top selling boat has no used listings people must really be happy with their purchases. So I was justifying more and more for a new one. Meanwhile my wife saw there were a lot of used boats like Bayliners for 1/5 and thought we should just get something like that. In all this I convinced my wife to go with me to the boat show as a control so I 'wouldn't do something stupid'. She saw the 212x before she knew it was the boat I wanted and said if we got one we should get that one. Then once she got in it and it was game over.
The lesson is never, ever go to a boat show. Your kids will be stuck with a public education but grow up on the coolest boat around.