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Can you send me a pm as well? I have been looking at the Craz for awhile now. Would love to take a look. Thanks.
That's a bummer man. Weve had issues getting our Skiers Choice boats as well. They only run a couple of their own truck and contract out the rest. I think with the market staying red hot the companies that are equipped with the right trailers are booked solid. Our last Supra showed up on a big ol gooseneck car hauler trailer pulled by a 1ton dualie, so at this point seems to me like Skiers is scrambling to find guys to haul their boats.
I'm about to hire someone and make the dealer pay lol. I get it though. With the price of these boats moomba has a big share of the market now. Prob much more than their infrastructure can handle. I can't believe your $150k plus boat came from a cat rocking a 1 ton.
I think the other part of it is SC, Malibu/Axis and MC are all built near each other in Tennessee and they are all selling lots of boats too so I think everyone is competing to get shippers right now. That's my assumption anyways.
it's really just a simple formula. Take the Max capacity of your boat. Then be at, at least 80% of that. So my max for my boat is 6500 lbs. I have 4000 lbs of stock ballast. So I'm about 1200 lbs short of 80%. Well why would they do that you ask. Marketing. If they added another 1200 lbs that's like 8 less people that could be on the boat. So a 24.5 ft boat with a capacity of 10 isn't exactly easy to market. So you have a decent wave stock prob 10x better than anything my little jet boat could do. But if you spend 100k for a boat you don't want just OK. So I spent another $1285 on 1200 lbs of lead to give me a proper wave. I opted not to add the wakeboard racks that are $3000. So still under what I could have been with wakeboard racks but no extra weight.
There's been rumors for the longest time that a new 24' Tomcat will come from MB but that didn't happen last year so maybe this year. Who knows lol. I looked into MB when I was shopping and liked the boats but the dealer support here is weak and I didn't feel comfortable going with it because of that reason. I mean the dealer here his showroom was just two boats in it with very minimal upkeep and overhead. His shop was a detached garage so yea wasn't going down that road. They make a nice boat though and gotta love the deep V.
Not sure where you are getting your info about MB from or how "quite a while" is defined, but the B52 23 got a new hull in 2018, The F22 was new in 2014 and got a new running surface and top deck in 2019, there's an all new F24 coming out any day now.