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Finding The Right Ski Boat Online For Sale
You can’t beat a nice hot summer’s day with the spray in your face and a fast boat beneath your feet – unless it’s a fast pair of skis under your feet! Water skiing has been around for over 80 years now since Ralph Samuelson of Minnesota first tried a pair of snow skis and a rope attached to a boat.
To ski on water you not only need the right kind of skis, but also the right kind of boat. A good ski boat should have small wake and have nippy maneuverability and turning capability, and in this case biggest is not best. The best skiboats have inboard engines although it is not cast in stone, and while many people ski using general purpose deck ski boats, the best are purpose built.
Australia has a variety of ski boats for sale since there are so many of them and quite frankly they tend to all be great boats. It would be easier to single out those slightly less fabulous than the rest than to pick the best, and you can’t go by price. Australia is a country popularfor water skiing, and they know how to build the right ski boats to do the job.
If we were to name a few, then of the popular skiboat ranges in Australia, Lewis must be amongst the most favoured, being one of the major ski boat builders in the world. Lewis ski boats are often found anyway popular for water sking, built by Australia’s oldest manufacturer.
A lightweight fiberglass ski boat for sale, the Lewis range have come along way from the earlier wooden hull. Even though the internal stringer system is normally made of wood, Lewis boats for sale are are fast and have the maneuverability need for a great ski. The 2280 and Revolution are typical of the Lewis range with their zippy Mercruiser engines that produce a small wake at speed for a smooth slalom ride, and nice big wake for wakeboarding at lower speeds.
Their well designed towers for wakeboarding can be pimped any way you like them, with speakers, lights and board racks. However, the disadvantage in a dual purposeski boat or wakeboarding vessel is that you can get a rougher ride on skis. It isn’t always ideal to have a dual purpose boat, but if you enjoy both sports then you should get enough performance from a good ski and wakeboarding boat to satisfy you. If it’s great performance you are seeking, then purchase a specialist boat.
Bayliner is another boat builder with very popular skiboats in the 16 – 22 foot range The Bowrider 205 is typical of a great skiboat with a 220 hp Mercuiser engine. This ski boat comes with storage area in the floor for skisand great sound system from its stereo controller that allows you fit a a number of different sound systems. Building boats for over 40years Bayliner has the experience to know how to build good boats. These boats are quality, and respond to the helm perfectly. With rapid acceleration, they can also turn on a cent piece, and are perfect for skiing.
Crownline boats are for the boating enthusist that likes a bit more power. These boats exude class and quality, and the Bowrider 240LS is great for skiing. You can choose your colour and your Mercedes engine up to a maximum 425 horse power. Add to that an optional fantastic Social Swim Transom® entertainment system, and a head with sink and shower, and this baby is great for all day fun. If you prefer a deckboat to a bowrider for your skiing, then the Crownline 252 EX has similar appointments with similar outboard engine, and a Sony Marine sound system as normal. Crownline may be a little more expensive but you pay for quality and one of the best ski boats for sale. Once more, though, they are multi-purpose and while very popular with the mid range ski boat skier they are not specialist ski boats.
For a championship specialist ski boat, then Skicraft might be the one you are looking for. Skicraft, based in Bayswater, have been manufacture championship skiboats since 1969, offering very reliable turning and maneuverability, but is also very safe. From the smooth and steady 202 to the new V-Drive eXV Skicraft are true competition boats. The ExV is an updated model of the popular eX2, with a good weight design allowing you to switch from wakeboarding to skiing with a turn of a switch.
Skicraft commonly build specialist boats, and the V-Drive is generally better for wakeboarding. However, wakeboarding boats for sale can be pricey because they have to be heavier to produce a good wake. With there own developed wake control technology, with Skicraft you can alter the size of the wake to swop between skiing and wakeboarding, and all at a price well below that of a purpose-built wakeboarding boat.
However, the boat that everybody is waiting to see is the new Mustang. Since being taken over by new owners, Mustang is back, and is going from strength to strength. Their most recent boat, still to be unveiled, is the Mustang 2008 430 Sports Coupe. How good this will be for ski boat we don’t know, but it is equipped with Volvo IPS 600 engines as standard, with 418 HP each so is going to be prompt enough.
These are among the more popular skiboat ranges around Australia, but there are many more and it would take several pages to do justice to even a fraction of them.
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