oh...........just plain bad

Ok, kinda bored. No riding b/c of the relentless rain and wind where I live, so here's a good fire-starting question. What's the worst wakeboard boat you've ever ridden behind? I'll start it off..............hands down the Toyota Epic 22. uhhhhhhhggggggggg is was terrible. I kept hoping I'd crash hard enough to get ejected out of my bindings as a good excuse to come back in the boat early. Hope noone gets clothes-pins on their nipples from this topic.

*awaits the boat wars*

The century Bronco 180 I had before I bought my MC PS 205. Flat, non existant wake, couldn't hold more than 500 lbs of weight. I would imagine any outboard would be horrible. But I have never been behind a real wakeboarding boat. I bet the yamaha jet boat / supposed wake boats are horrible.

my yamaha waverunner there is not enough power to pull me out of the water

Greg, the waverunner doesn't have enough to pull you out?

Strange. I use my 10 foot inflatable dinghy with a 9.9 outboard to pull riders past the slider. If it will get my 195 pound ass up and moving I would expect a waverunner to be able to.

Here is a trick that we use to help out the dinghy: We start with the dinghy going at 90 degrees to the rider. For the first 20 feet or so we travel in an arc around the rider until the dinghy gets up on plane, then we straighten out and pull the rider out. Works great!

Hey Vandal, Rod's got the Toyota Epic 22 Starting Procedure down pat here.

Except when we ballast it, we'll wrap a full 270 degrees before staightening out.

BTW, Shapiro and Harf wrote The Procedure.

You knew you'd get a rise out of one of us, right?

My own, of course. It was a 72 Spectra 18 jet. Terrible with a ski rope in hand, but sinful to drive!