First, I really don't want to start a fight here, I only want to talk about something I saw this w-e.
I was helping my cousin boat seller at the Qc boat show to answer some questions about is new brand, Epic. It's a small boat show with a lot of fishing boats, I/O, pontons and couples of wake boats! It is fairly reprensentative of what kind of peoples were there. Not so much riders around!
We got a nice black 21V and a baddass wrapped 23V. These are the firsts 2 of 3 Epic in Quebec, maybe in the east of Canada.
It caught the attention of everybody who ride, own or sell wakeboard boat. Everybody except Nautique owners or sellers. Every other brands sellers came to see the boats except them! They event didn't watching at us at all!
I got one owner who came to look at the 23V. I talked with him a bit but he was like not impressed and not interressed to be impressed...
At the end he said that he ordered a new 210 with a "you can't imagine" smile!
WTF with all these guys? I really love Air Nautique boats but I can appreciate other brand like Epic! Epic has been made for peoples like me. I understand that Nautique are crazy nice but it's just esthetic. If you can pay for it, good for you.... but it's not necessary to wakeboard! IMO, I prefere to work in the wood with a F250 than a Escalade!
Epic 23V : 67 995$ with trailer
230 TE : 106 000$ without trailer
... at the end, they are both use for the same thing! And one of them will be full of fat sac to create a equivalent wake! Plus, I read that a 230 is washy and hard to tune!
I hope it's just a local observation! Maybe it's more about money than boats... I don't know...
N.B. I really love Nautique boat!!!
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