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Did he put a diesel in it? I bet the combo of his tow rig and boat look amazing.
I'm not sure if he purchased it with a diesel, but he mentioned the possibility of putting one of the Duramax engines in that's he's been collaborating with Banks Power on in it.
The wave looks decent. It seems to me like it's more of a aluminum hull deck boat with a v-drive than a pontoon. Although from the front it appears to be more tri-toon.
Yeah, they should call it a deckboat. Not a pontoon.
And there is the real reason you start
Boat already looks kind of small behind that truck. Wonder what it would look like behind the red and black 650 they built years back. Of course it would need a custom draw bar with a few feet of drop.
With enough money anything is possible.
I would not care to take this boat down to the Gulf. Not to say you couldn’t do it as there are some who don’t mind salt but I just wouldn’t care to do it to a boat like this. There are a lot of electronics for starters. Moomba also does not have a self bailing cockpit with a scupper. Any water you take on goes into the bilge and rely on the bilge pump entirely. As you know the Gulf is unpredictable at times and can’t kick up some good sized swells and the thought of relying only on the bilge doesn’t sit well with me. Then there’s cleaning all the salt. It gets freaking everywhere and with the Yamaha I didn’t mind liberally hosing the cockpit with salt away and water. With my Max I try to keep the interior cockpit as dry as possible. I don’t hose out the cockpit much at all and keep it wiped down after each use. From time to time I’ll scrub and clean the gatorstep flooring but otherwise I keep water on the inside to a minimum. Stark contrast compared to how I cleaned the Yamaha sometimes when it really needed a deep hosing inside. That’s not to say you can’t hose them down inside but these boats don’t have the nice cockpit draining system like the Yamaha has where most water under the cushion flows in a channel to dump it in the cockpit rather than inside the storage compartments. Basically I just wouldn’t take mine down there for the wear and tear of salt on a boat like this. It would technically handle it fine so long as I bought the flush adapter but I just wouldn’t care to do it. Just too nice to do it to a wake boat IMO where the Yamaha I didn’t mind it. My .02
Got it thanks thats super helpful! I hadn't thought about how much we take for granted the self bailing cockpit/scupper and the water run off trenches under the seats. Funny we've gone the last 4 years to the ATL boat shows and I never noticed or thought about when looking at other boats/brands how nice those two features are or assumed they all had them too. Yikes I need to pay way more attention... Again thanks for sharing your experiences and if it weren't for all the beach trips we'd be in a boat more like yours.
Well I guess I should say that the wake boats in my price range don't have the drainage system. They have them on higher end boats like from Nautique. I think a few others have them as well but you don't typically see it on the budget level wake boats. It's something they could all have but would require them to make new deck molds. It is a nice feature and wished mine had them but thankfully water seems to run off the cushions and not down in the storage for the most part. The storage does have drain holes though to allow any water to flow down into the bilge.Got it thanks thats super helpful! I hadn't thought about how much we take for granted the self bailing cockpit/scupper and the water run off trenches under the seats. Funny we've gone the last 4 years to the ATL boat shows and I never noticed or thought about when looking at other boats/brands how nice those two features are or assumed they all had them too. Yikes I need to pay way more attention... Again thanks for sharing your experiences and if it weren't for all the beach trips we'd be in a boat more like yours.
This has annoyed me from day 1. Why is this a feature of a $35k boat and not a $70-80k boat.
I am almost surprised the coast guard doesnt require boats to be self bailing, especially wake boats that are marketed to be hugely weighted down making them far more likely to take on water. Supreme does a truck bed liner on the inside of the storage compartments so at least so there is no carpet in there to hold a bunch of water. I assume the other manufacturers do something similar.
Yup MB's have a cockpit drain near the rear bench seat that allows water to go into the bilge. They even top it off with a nice little billet drain cover as everything is billet on the MB's
. My Moomba has a center removable panel for the center drain plug and that allows water in the cockpit to work its way down into the bilge, although if I'm taking water over the front in the Max then I must be jumping 5' waves, in the Gulf lol. Such a tall freeboard it's a non-issue.
. Love the water here! Playing with different wave shapes....
