Ever Get A Boat For Christmas?

(wakeworld) · (wakeworld) **Join Date: Jan 1997** 11-07-2008, 10:26 PM

I saw the story on the Malibu blog about the folks that surprised their dad/husband with a Malibu Wakesetter for Christmas and I thought it would be a cool topic for our discussion board.

Has anyone ever gotten a boat for a gift? If so, tell the story...

(summersun) · (summersun) **Join Date: Nov 2008** 11-08-2008, 12:06 AM

One that I could play with in the bathtub!

(mcclure_kevo) · (mcclure_kevo) **Join Date: Sep 2008** 11-08-2008, 12:12 AM

our family got a boat like two months befor my birthday a couple years ago but we were getting a new one anyways lol

(nj_alex) · (nj_alex) **Join Date: Aug 2002** 11-08-2008, 6:14 AM

When I was little I think I gave my mother a gravy boat for Christmas once.

(jon4pres) · (jon4pres) **Join Date: May 2004** 11-08-2008, 6:54 AM

my dad bought a lake house on my birthday. He never really said it but I am sure it was a gift to me.

(srh00z) · (srh00z) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 11-08-2008, 7:12 AM

Wasn't there somebody who got a boat for Father's Day here on wakeworld? I think I remember reading about that a few years back.

(driving) · (driving) **Join Date: Jan 2003** 11-08-2008, 8:30 AM

I either give or get a boat for most holidays. It's the gift that keeps on giving. I mean, really, who doesn't want a boat? Not anyone I know. Occasionally I'll mix it up with a tow vehicle or lake house.

(dppaneig) · (dppaneig) **Join Date: Feb 2008** 11-08-2008, 8:43 AM

Hey Travis are you doing any hiring? I'll be Goose

(wakerider111) · (wakerider111) **Join Date: Jul 2006** 11-08-2008, 9:04 AM

my daughter (with help from mommy, since she was only like 6 months at the time) gave me a brand new Malibu Wake Setter for Fathers' Day this year!

Check it out--->

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I call it my MALIBU "RIPPLE" SETTER

(wakeboard19) · (wakeboard19) **Join Date: Apr 2005** 11-08-2008, 9:11 AM

My parents got me and my brothers a Wakesetter for christmas 3 years ago. It was sitting in the drive way when we woke up. Best Christmas ever!

(wakemb) · (wakemb) **Join Date: Mar 2006** 11-08-2008, 9:40 AM

Should we start a boat give away thread?

(dmcguirt23) · (dmcguirt23) **Join Date: Aug 2004** 11-08-2008, 10:22 AM

What ever happened to that boat the Spy gave away a long time ago? Does anyone know who has it now?

(hawkeye7708) · (hawkeye7708) **Join Date: Feb 2007** 11-08-2008, 10:26 AM

David, somebody did win it. I think it was on Spy's website or Alliance. It was one of the two.

(helix_rider) · (helix_rider) **Join Date: Mar 2003** 11-08-2008, 2:39 PM

And on 'our' Wakeworld home page right now...just look in the 'latest in wake' news section on the front page, top right.

(kickflip_mj) · (kickflip_mj) **Join Date: Apr 2007** 11-08-2008, 4:42 PM

i got a bu vlx last for christmas.. but i got it in the summer

it was the best and my parents are so rad... i killed my sanger, basically rode it to the ground. i was sitting around unable to wakeboard for like a 2 months and my dad just one day was like lets go look at some boats. i thought he was just bs me. so we went to a malibu dealer because i love the boats. right when i walked in he was like what boat do you like, i loved the vlx wake so i naturally told him that one. a sales dude walks up and my dad was like tell him all the features you want... right then i knew my dad wasnt bs anymore.lol my parents are the greatest a boy could ask for :-)

seriously i am so greatful for everything, you dont even know.... i think im going to drive home and give them a hug now.lol

wiz 11-09-2008, 7:20 PM

i bought a new supra 22 ssv back in september. it worked out perfect... i took delivery on 9/5, my birthday!! &my wife got me a ps3!! (playstation, not the lf). it's gonna be hard to top 2008!! i put some pics up on the boat forum under "my new 22".

(vabeachbum) · (vabeachbum) **Join Date: Sep 2006** 11-10-2008, 7:35 AM

My wife surprised me on my 30th birthday with a 2006 Centurion Avalanche. I had been in the shop looking at the boat dreaming for months. I had no idea she had done it.

Apparently, she went through all the paperwork and signed the deal in February awaiting my birthday in April. Good thing I don't pay much attention to the finances, that's her bag. So that meant that everyone in the shop that had seen me drool over the boat knowing that I really already owned it but they didn't say a word.

They pulled the wool over my eyes for sure. We lined up "the first ride of the season" on my birthday. We were on the boat that I loved, but I thought the previous owners were allowing us to demo the boat (we have a relationship with the previous owners and the dealership so it wasn't too far fetched). They passed out new 2007 t-shirts for our crew. Mine was the last one in the bag, but didn't look like everyone else's.

The front of the T-shirt reads: It's my 30th Birthday...
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And here we are just a little while after I realized I owned THAT boat!!
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(wakemandan) · (wakemandan) **Join Date: Feb 2003** 11-10-2008, 8:52 AM

.wow

(srh00z) · (srh00z) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 11-10-2008, 9:12 AM

That is a great story and I think the boat looks great too. I have always liked black and a bright green.

wiz 11-10-2008, 4:09 PM

thats an awesome story!!

(goinbigg17) · (goinbigg17) **Join Date: Jul 2002** 11-10-2008, 5:36 PM

Thats a great story! I keep hoping that my fiance will come through with something like that...

(dlwsrider) · (dlwsrider) **Join Date: Apr 2007** 11-10-2008, 8:35 PM

One of my friends that owns a boat dealership has always said that it is his dream to play santa

(meathead65) · (meathead65) **Join Date: Sep 2006** 11-14-2008, 4:11 PM

In the past 15 years or so, I have done 4 "XMas Morning Driveway Deliveries"....2 ski boats, one family runabout, and a fish boat.

Pretty cool playing santa on those days......

(waajusshappened)

Chip, you have the coolest chic ever! Marry her, wait..too late

Seriously, very nice!

(2007_x2) · (2007_x2) **Join Date: May 2007** 11-14-2008, 10:30 PM

chip that is awesome your a lucky man! im going to find me a wife like that!

my dad bought our boat on his birthday in jan, he was stoked and it came a few days after mine in march.

(vabeachbum) · (vabeachbum) **Join Date: Sep 2006** 11-17-2008, 10:39 AM

Thanks guys! She truly is an amazing wife/friend/partner, and that goes well beyond the birthday present.

(jcush313) · (jcush313) **Join Date: Jun 2008** 11-17-2008, 11:05 AM

i got my 04 x-2 for xmas a few years ago. super tight. it was at the boat show on top of a 15 foot stand and my dad said thats a sweet boat merry xmas haha!