what year SN 2001 throws the good wake?

isn't 82-89 or something for the 2001s?

yes

The only differences are the top cap of the hull, windshield and interior over those years. The hull is the same otherwise.

do they have a better wake unweighted than any early 90's SN?

yes. I have had a 85 and now a 93 sport and they are pretty equal if not leaning toward the 2001 unweighted. I like my sport better weighted though.

how much weight you running in your sport? i want to pick up a 2001 or an early 90's nautique sometime in the future. i'm sure i will weight it some, but nothing extreme. Im just trying to see for the money what would be better? spending less than 10k

Were you talking about an early 90's Ski Nautique or a Sport Nautique. Most will say the 2001 wake is better than the 90's Ski Nautiques. The 2001 and the Sport wakes are both great. The Sport has more room and the wake is a little wider, but both have a great shape and can get big. We ride a Sport with minimal weight pretty often and it has a great wake. When it is sacked out, it just gets better and better. The 2001 wake is similar, good unweighted, but gets better and better with weight.

I am running usually 2 side sacks butted up to the back seat and extending up next to the engine. I usally ride with only one other guy so we bias fill the port one to compensate for the driver. Depending on what you read, those side sacks are either 400 or 550 each so I would say we run with a solid 800 to 1000 with driver. I dont know why fly high cant com up with a number, the online and box numbers were different.

Just for reference, the 2001 I had ran roughly 600-800 in the same configuration. The 2001 was more responsive to weight, but the sport is really close and can handle it way better and has a ton more room inside of it too.}

Interesting. I've ridden behind Sport Nauti's and think there wakes are awful. What type of wakes are you guys used to riding? Also, I heard the 88-89 ski nauti 2001's hull is different from the 82-87 years.

The hulls shape is the same, but in 89 they started to use the AME Epoxy resin which is stronger and lighter than the polyvinyl resins used 82-88.

They also started using the 1.23 trany in 89 which makes a big difference.

Skubz, I have ridden behind a '95 Sport Nautique which has the same hull as the Super Air Nautique, just in a direct drive format. That wake, properly weighted is huge with a lot of vert kick.

Interesting Stephen. I don't know the year I rode, but it definitely would never be confused with the wake of a Super Air and obviously in turn then, did not have the same hull. Are you sure it wasn't a Super Sport you were riding? I never heard of any year Sport having the same hull as a Super Air.

The Super Sport is the V-drive version and the Sport is the DD version. I don't know what year the hull changed because I know that the Sport hull first came out around 89. I have never been behind one of those. I think it is the 95 or the 96 hull that is the same as the SAN. Maybe one of the Correct Craft gurus will drop by and correct me if I am wrong. The 95 I ride behind with plenty of weight is a pretty stacked wake, and the wake is nicely shaped without a lot of weight.

Yep, I think you're right. I think I did ride behind a 92 or something pre-95. Because I have ridden behind mutliple Super Sports and the Sport I rode behind, could never be confused with that wake. I guess we are on the same page now

1983 Ski Nautique 2001 -

I run 150 in the nose - 300/350 along each side of the doghouse - 350 + 100 "custom seat" in the back.

So 1200 to 1300 pounds, plus I usually have 1 to 2 other people in the boat.

It throws a great wake, not a Malibu VLX with 3000 pounds, but a great wake. Only downside to the 2001 is the closed bow.