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Originally Posted by Mississippihippie
i have been viewing that chart for a loooong time secretly
hoping each year the prices would drop. thanks everyone i am loving the mc. i plan on putting 100 hours on her this summer. going to get sacks and new 6x9s cabin speakers and just enjoy and regular maintenance.
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It makes me really really happy to hear that. Even is it is "secretly" looked at, criticized, challenged. I love it.
When I made that chart, it was because things were too crazy, but they've only gotten crazier. I still think all of the boats on the chart deserve to be on it. Rather than rehash why I made it, or apologize for never coming out with an update to it though, here's what I
would like to say: I stand by every single boat on there, still. Every one. In fact there are only a couple of boats I'd add to it, even now. In fact, just one.
I'd adjust the chart only enough to get the Nautique Crossover 236/Super Air Nautique 230 on there somehow. That' the only one that I feel is so important to the evolution of these boats and represents an important milestone. I see it as being the last great traditional boat - and I am still in awe of it. So that's the one thing I'd do in a V2 of this thing. In the 12 years (holy bananas, has it really been that long) that have passed, not much else has changed.
I made it with a figure of $30k being the very-very highest I'd advise anyone to spend on a used wake boat. And I made it with the additional caveat that this prospective wake boat's primary use is very serious, behind-a-boat progression-minded wakeboarding. Not tubing, not wakesurf, just standard behind-the-boat riding.
The release of the G23 and G25 changed so much in terms of what a WAKE can be and how much it costs to get a pro-level wake. I wish I had made that point on my site. The G23 release was the most disruptive single product release I've ever seen in boat tech in the history of the sport. The G23 finally delivered on promises of a monster, crazy super-sized wake, and that
costs what it costs. It changed what a "pro-level wake" meant, and if it didn't *actually* make effective trough-to-peak sizes so much bigger I would have been able to ignore it. Either way, for as much as I like & respect Correct Craft, my budget chart can't accommodate the big Nautique flagship. Not yet. But that boat changed everything.
So let's talk about the 230. 236. That is a very special boat. Runner up is the 2012 Supra Worlds edition. I absolutely love what they did there. As you all know it is really hard to integrate these big older flagship-type gorgeous boats. I'm working on something that should help.
Sorry this is so long. I wrote a long story about a $10,000 Sport Nautique and that is another big time awesome milestone. Amazing that a boat like that is becoming available to normal people. Very important - about as important as the Ski Nautique 2001. Working on something related to the Sport Nautique too.
TL;DR; The Correct Craft 230/236 is the boat I really would like to include in a V2 of that chart.