Wakeboarding Magazine and Waterski Magazine both offer online reviews of most the wake boats. However, they are both pretty lame. All the reviews I have ever read say only positives about the boats. They make stupid statments like, "We found the wake firm and rampy with a little lip at the top.... blah, blah, blah." They say junk this about every boat they review. They also do a lot of copy/paste from the manufacturer liturature. So it's really no better than reading brochures.
In this way, it's sorta like reading wakeboard reviews... every board has HUGE pop with super SOFT landings. LOL.
They never point out shortcomings, and they never compare them side-to-side. I think this because while they are busy doing reviews, they are also busy collecting ad revenue from the boat builders themselves. So they won't bite the hand that feeds them.
It's hard to believe that these guys can get their hands on all these boats and have them together on the water... yet they can't give us any meaningful information out of it.
I've often thought about how cool it would be to do true boat reviews with real comparisons, pros/cons, measurements, etc.
http://wakeboardingmag.com/boats/
http://waterskimag.com/virtual-test-drives/ |
