l.a. boat show pics

(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 01-30-2005, 12:58 AM

on our way...$@&%^&!@* traffic!!!!

b52

calabria

centurion

malibu

mastercraft

nautique

sanger

supra/moomba

supreme

tige

cwb

hyperlite

liquid force

worst board racks EVER!

after the show, went to world famous Pink's Hot Dog....waited in line for 1.5 hours...yes, it's worth it!

(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 01-30-2005, 1:34 AM

(cmawsr) · (cmawsr) **Join Date: Nov 2002** 01-30-2005, 2:30 AM

73 funnking grand for a x star. are you kidding me....... what a joke this industry is becoming.
They didn't have any prices on the master(over f'ng priced)crafts at the norcal show

-RUSSIAN

absolutofft 01-30-2005, 2:37 AM

That X-Star looks insanely sweet

(blake_hughes)

I agree, that X-star is nice, and looks really good... I don't know about the price, way too much for me.

-Blake

(wakeme884) · (wakeme884) **Join Date: Jul 2004** 01-30-2005, 7:19 AM

Joe, nice pics-you shot all the important ones. .......which one did you order??????

(gbgonzal138) · (gbgonzal138) **Join Date: Oct 2004** 01-30-2005, 7:20 AM

Thanks for the pics, I wish I lived a little closer so I could go. How did the LF teams feel, I have a pair ordered for me.
Im not feeling the crossbone x-star but the airbrushed skulls on it look sick.

(thane_dogg) · (thane_dogg) **Join Date: Jun 2002** 01-30-2005, 8:11 AM

I think you got it all Joe. I'm going there today.

walt 01-30-2005, 8:42 AM

35-40K on the Sangers sounds like a really great price ! Great pics Joe !

byerly137pro 01-30-2005, 9:04 AM

Yea the airbrushed skulls do look awesome, but I don't like the colour choice or the cross bones with yellow. Plus, over 70k for a boat is ridicoulous.

(deuce) · (deuce) **Join Date: Mar 2002** 01-30-2005, 9:45 AM

Great photos Joe.

X-Star was overdone IMO.... Then again, the boat that caught my eye the most(aesthetics only) was the Nautique Air 206...sharp and clean.

Remember...boat show price of 73 K with the MCX...

E.J.

bambamski 01-30-2005, 11:39 AM

I don't like that X-star, there was one posted a little while ago that looked better IMO.

46,000 for an Iride?? What a joke, thanks for coming out.

Great pics Joe

(toyotafreak) · (toyotafreak) **Join Date: Sep 2003** 01-30-2005, 12:02 PM

I like the X-Star bones logo. The whole paint job is pretty cool compared to the typical tribal stuff.

(maestro) · (maestro) **Join Date: Jun 2001** 01-30-2005, 12:35 PM

The X-star looks terrible... it looks like an offshore racing boat...

(greenpinky) · (greenpinky) **Join Date: Apr 2004** 01-30-2005, 1:11 PM

What X-Star? I refuse to even look when it has a price tag like that. Give me a break. It's a ski boat on roids. Not worth $80,000.

(pesos)

i got indigestion just looking at the Pink's sign...

(liveoz) · (liveoz) **Join Date: May 2002** 01-30-2005, 2:25 PM

Does anyone else think that $5,700 is just a little high for a trailer. I think they know that most people will finance and would rather add that to the tab then spend $3,000 out of pocket and buy the trailer separately.

(agfan12) · (agfan12) **Join Date: Mar 2004** 01-30-2005, 2:47 PM

Joe, where was the General Lee, I didn't see it, I'll have to take pics when I go back...Other than that great pics, and exactly the same one's I took, I can't believe I didn't see you...

(malibuboarder75)

Those are the worst graphics on any boat (x-star). Great job Joe. You took some awesome pics.

(socalwakepunk) · (socalwakepunk) **Join Date: Dec 2002** 01-30-2005, 4:54 PM

Great shots, Joe. Yup, you got just about everything, except for that fine female speciman at the Extreme trailer exhibit (I forgot my camera).

(greatdane) · (greatdane) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 01-30-2005, 7:13 PM

IMO, SANGER WINS!

Really, its such a better value, its pretty hard to consider any other boat! Geeze, the Sanger wake is as good as any and the price is simply amazing (because all of the other boats have gotten so expensive).

(greatdane) · (greatdane) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 01-30-2005, 7:25 PM

Also, Joe, thanks for the photos! Really, they are appreciated!

(west) · (west) **Join Date: Apr 2002** 01-30-2005, 7:31 PM

I don't understand why someone would spend that kind of money on a boat. 80 grand???? There are soooo many other good, quality boats with sick wakes out there. I agree with most, ridiculous price tag!!!! Oh, and the graphics on the X-Star are fugly!!

(bigjackamo) · (bigjackamo) **Join Date: Aug 2002** 01-31-2005, 7:21 AM

A 132 Byerly without the cut outs??? What is up with that? Did they make any in a bigger size?

Byerly

(bbr) · (bbr) **Join Date: Apr 2002** 01-31-2005, 8:06 AM

That SO-CAL edition X Star looked bad ass in person. I'm not much for Mastercraft, but I was filthy rich, I would have bought if for sure. 95K for a boat is a little much since I'm not filthy rich.

(toyotafreak) · (toyotafreak) **Join Date: Sep 2003** 01-31-2005, 8:24 AM

My bad, you guys clearly have better taste then me (exhibit A, my vanilla ride). I retract all positive things said about SoCal X-Star. Must be them roots I got by learning to ski behind a flat-bottom Kachina.

However, I've realized that the X-Star bones logo was actually derived from a sequence pic of a naked backroll. Note the same sack being slung in four directions at once. It's kinda like the Everybody Loves Raymond where they realize that the sculpture looks like a pink tweeter.

Just don't see how everybody can bash that paint job when there's all them other boats with REAL offshore graphics like the MB boat with cheap imitation Magic Powerboat graphics, the crazy green Calabria, the nasty Pimp My Ride triple-axle BU, etc., etc.

The SANs are classic. In a good way. Some of the BUs and Centurions look pretty clean, too. Love that flame embroidery (don't want it, but appreciate it, just like the sac-flying MC.)

(obrienride16) · (obrienride16) **Join Date: Jul 2001** 01-31-2005, 8:37 AM

phil, thats not a byerly, its a state with the byerly graphic

(thane_dogg) · (thane_dogg) **Join Date: Jun 2002** 01-31-2005, 8:42 AM

Phil - I wonder what the bottom graphic is?

(solo) · (solo) **Join Date: Oct 2001** 01-31-2005, 8:43 AM

Where do you hang the 42" plasma screen on the 05 X Star? For $67,000.00 They should come standard on the tower!

(antbug) · (antbug) **Join Date: Jul 2004** 01-31-2005, 8:44 AM

Derek ~ well said!

(tahoe) · (tahoe) **Join Date: Mar 2002** 01-31-2005, 9:27 AM

32K for a V210 Sanger with all that stuff is a smoking deal. If I was in the market for a new boat, I think I'd be stopping there for sure.

(magellan) · (magellan) **Join Date: Feb 2003** 01-31-2005, 10:09 AM

The CWB booth was the coolest booth I've ever seen at a boat show...and I've been to quite a few.

(hatepwcs) · (hatepwcs) **Join Date: Mar 2002** 01-31-2005, 12:36 PM

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM....PI NKS.

(stephan) · (stephan) **Join Date: Nov 2002** 01-31-2005, 12:47 PM

magellan, that was the idea. They worked really hard to make it off the hook. Hopefully some of you guys will come and visit me this weekend...anybody...hello...helloooo.....

(antbug) · (antbug) **Join Date: Jul 2004** 01-31-2005, 1:05 PM

Stephen ~ I will be there on Saturday. Tell CWB to have the contract ready

.

(Message edited by antbug on January 31, 2005)

(tidalwake0504) · (tidalwake0504) **Join Date: Oct 2004** 01-31-2005, 1:12 PM

Seriosuly i dont understand what can make an x Star so expensive, what does it have that is so good, do they jack up the price just for the hell of it, or because they spend so much more on advertising, i mean i was watching a saturn comercial the other day and there was an x star in it.

(antbug) · (antbug) **Join Date: Jul 2004** 01-31-2005, 1:36 PM

Colin ~ your boat cost your Dad about 50k plus. It's not even the "flagship" boat that Nauti makes. Now if you look at the boat show price on the X-star above it says 67k. If you were to put all those bell and whistles on your boat I think it would be over 60k easy. Now Nauti has not changed there hull in years and they are still charging an arm and a leg for the 210. MC put allot of R&D into this NEW hull and need to collect on it now. The real question is why does Nauti charge 60K for a boat that has not changed in years. I will tell you the answer... Because it's worth it and they can!

Sorry for the hijack.

(antbug) · (antbug) **Join Date: Jul 2004** 01-31-2005, 1:36 PM

Great pics Joe ~ sorry I couldn't join you.

(tidalwake0504) · (tidalwake0504) **Join Date: Oct 2004** 01-31-2005, 1:52 PM

The sticker was 65 The only option we dont have is the heater....we got 11 g's off. And the 211 is a new hull...in my opinion the x star hull is merely a gimmic, mastercraft always put form before function. I think the x star is an awesome looking boat, but i rode behind one 2 weeks ago, and the wake was wayyyy smaller than mine with stock ballast.

(antbug) · (antbug) **Join Date: Jul 2004** 01-31-2005, 2:16 PM

Colin ~ wayyyy smaller

??? pm me and we can talk more about this.

(toyotafreak) · (toyotafreak) **Join Date: Sep 2003** 01-31-2005, 3:43 PM

The $70K just means that MC either doesn't want to build 412,000 boats per year, or they're REEEEALLY smart and know that $70K will sell just the right amount of boats to maximize profit without really expanding in a risky way.

Another thing, the saying goes that the Vette sells a lot of sedans.

The coolest thing is that the higher the X-Star and SANs go, the better the used market gets for us owners and for the more value-minded manufacturers.

(breadbutta) · (breadbutta) **Join Date: Dec 2003** 01-31-2005, 4:23 PM

Thanks Joe, It's just like being there....only not. The boats and their graphix are getting better each year, the prices are killing me. I love the Byerly bindings with the gator skin wrap, also the LF (Transit or Sphynx?) with the leather. I love leather. Is anybody else getting the itch?

(hymaeringo) · (hymaeringo) **Join Date: Jul 2004** 02-01-2005, 1:00 PM

Xstar, SAN, Blah blah the battle continues.... the x-star is a fine specimen of a wakeboard boat and I can say this confidently as a 210 owner. SAN will continue to sell with old hull designs for 60k bc they are badass ergonomic boats with distinguished layouts. I will take the interior of my 210 of an x-star anyday althoguh I would have to contest when it comes to wake size.

In my honest opinion the classiest and sexiest looking boat of the pics above that caught my eye and surprisingly no one elses is the all white 21 Supra SSV with black trim. scroll back up and tell me that thing is not ill?

(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 02-01-2005, 1:26 PM

imo, if they can take the interior/storage space of the x-star and combine it w/ the wake of the san, you got yourself a perfect boat!

disclaimer: i'm not knockin' the xstar wake at all...weighted properly, it has a sick ass wake!

(supersport) · (supersport) **Join Date: Dec 2001** 02-06-2005, 10:11 PM

Thanks for the pics Joe! Did you say hi to those punks at Sports LTD?
Joe

(stephan) · (stephan) **Join Date: Nov 2002** 02-07-2005, 12:32 PM

Ringo, Agreed!!! That Supra looked so sweet!!! All in all it was a fun show. Andrew Adkison is a really cool guy & it was fun hanging out with him all weekend. It was also nice to meet Danny Harf, also a funny fella. Hope everyone had fun, I know I'm dead tired.

dick 03-16-2005, 8:53 PM

looks like tige is triing to copy malibu

(jarrod) · (jarrod) **Join Date: May 2003** 03-17-2005, 7:56 AM

"looks like tige is triing to copy malibu"
I agree to an extent.

Skiworld sold their most expensive X-star ever at 91,000 last week. I wonder if the proud, new owner can ride?

Not a fan of those X-star graphics

(erik_c) · (erik_c) **Join Date: Jan 2005** 03-17-2005, 11:38 AM

That thing was fully loaded though there was 6 grand just in stereo.

(goodtime) · (goodtime) **Join Date: Sep 2002** 03-17-2005, 1:08 PM

That Xstar at the show had airbrushed graphics, tons of hours just in the paint etc, it was a great show piece for their display. Wether you loved it or hated it, you are talking about it and that is why it was built. im sure someone bought it.

post some more pics yo

(stephan) · (stephan) **Join Date: Nov 2002** 03-18-2005, 3:10 PM

Tom Hanks bought an X-Star at the show. So everyone in So-Cal be on the look out for mr Hanks on the local waterways.

(goodtime) · (goodtime) **Join Date: Sep 2002** 03-18-2005, 11:13 PM

I was working at the show, picking up trash and collecting beer cans....heard Tom Hanks was cruising the show. Thats awesome that they picked up a new ride, wakeboarding is blowing up yo.

(ptexx) · (ptexx) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 03-20-2005, 7:40 PM

Great pics Joe. This is the first time i have seen them. Stephan do not believe the rumors.Tom Hanks is still a happy California Correct Craft Customer. They love their 216.