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- Location
- Sunrise Beach Village, TX
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2008
- Boat Model
- Limited
- Boat Length
- 23
I had been lurking at that OTHER place for a while when I recently found this forum. It's a much nicer setup.
My wife and I have three children, 8, 6, and 16 months and live in the Hill County just outside of San Antonio. After a recent trip to Lake LBJ and two crappy rental boats, I finally got wife approval to find us a boat of our own. After seeing a local SX230 that was for sale last fall we discovered Yamaha boats for the first time but with a YOUNG infant, it was a hard sell to the wife. Now, it's easy. These boats look great for families that's aren't hard into wake sports. My girls barely do the tube yet.
I have tons of ski boat experience in the distant past, growing up with Ski Nautique's and Mastercraft ski boats in the 80's and 90's before wake sports really became big. I was so into it in the late 90's that my friends and I used to ski, wakeboard and barefoot in Colorado in October with dry suits on lakes that were already half frozen. But owning a boat in Colorado made little sense to me after that and I stopped boating.
About two years ago, we had acquired a 'free boat' that was originally my grandfathers boat from a family member. It needed a little TLC (I'm sure you can see where this is going) It's a mid 60's 19' Californian from the California Boat Company in Newport Beach, which my grandfather founded. Classic boat with classic lines. But besides the hull, not much has survived. Wiring needs to be completely replaced, floors has rotted out and when I went to turn the motor over after I seven year slumber, I found that 3 of 6 cylinders of the Mercruiser I6 have water in them and have rusted badly.
I will eventually restore this boat to its former glory (gold fleck!) and resurrect a one of a kind boat of which I have found no peers, but I don't want to deny our family lake time any longer. Hopefully we will get into a well priced used Yamaha this fall.
Boat selling season is about to begin . . .
My wife and I have three children, 8, 6, and 16 months and live in the Hill County just outside of San Antonio. After a recent trip to Lake LBJ and two crappy rental boats, I finally got wife approval to find us a boat of our own. After seeing a local SX230 that was for sale last fall we discovered Yamaha boats for the first time but with a YOUNG infant, it was a hard sell to the wife. Now, it's easy. These boats look great for families that's aren't hard into wake sports. My girls barely do the tube yet.
I have tons of ski boat experience in the distant past, growing up with Ski Nautique's and Mastercraft ski boats in the 80's and 90's before wake sports really became big. I was so into it in the late 90's that my friends and I used to ski, wakeboard and barefoot in Colorado in October with dry suits on lakes that were already half frozen. But owning a boat in Colorado made little sense to me after that and I stopped boating.
About two years ago, we had acquired a 'free boat' that was originally my grandfathers boat from a family member. It needed a little TLC (I'm sure you can see where this is going) It's a mid 60's 19' Californian from the California Boat Company in Newport Beach, which my grandfather founded. Classic boat with classic lines. But besides the hull, not much has survived. Wiring needs to be completely replaced, floors has rotted out and when I went to turn the motor over after I seven year slumber, I found that 3 of 6 cylinders of the Mercruiser I6 have water in them and have rusted badly.
I will eventually restore this boat to its former glory (gold fleck!) and resurrect a one of a kind boat of which I have found no peers, but I don't want to deny our family lake time any longer. Hopefully we will get into a well priced used Yamaha this fall.
Boat selling season is about to begin . . .
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it will be a great time to buy used, that's for sure!
