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Went shopping for a used boat, mostly to use for a runabout, but the kids all ski and snowboard so they will try wake boarding and have talked about wake surfing....
Found a 20' Monterey Bow Rider I/O with a factory tower, large swim platform and only 20 hours on the fuel inj 5L.
So the 29 cent question as we looked around we considered and inboard or V-drive ....
What makes them worth double the cost of an I/O ???
One can see the obvious differences between these and a I/O.
Hull design ( Deep V's handle rough water better ) ( wake board boats make better wakes)
Ballast systems ( built in ballast tanks on wake board boats )
Top speed ( Deep V's with I/O usually higher top end speed.)( wake board boats use even bigger motors with lots of low end power)
Seating (wife didn't like the reverse seating of the co-pilots seat....)( wake boats seat more )
Reverse steering ( N/A on inboards and V- drives)
The dealer indicated they wake surf behind I/O that have the large swim platforms by just weighting one side of the boat.
So I e-mailed the manufacture, Boat smart and searched a bunch of boat specific chat forms...
Manufacture answer was non com-ital, politically correct answer.... wasn't tested for that so we cant comment.
Boats Smart answer with contact the manufacture....
And the forms were filled with militant answers form both sides of the augment....
If we decide that wake surfing is what we want to do a high percent of the time, I could see wanting a wake that is easier to build and maintain, but for the odd crack at it....
The rider would be off to the side and back from the boat, so to reach the prop you would have to fall forward and to the side 6' to 10' and down at least 4' to 5'.
Boat and rider travelling at 15 MPH rider falls forward hits the water that's travelling zero MPH. The risk of hitting the boat behind either boat is there but hitting the prop???
That's question two, your thoughts of wake surfing behind a I/O.
PS we have been tubing, skiing and wake boarding behind it already and like the power, handling and ride .....
Found a 20' Monterey Bow Rider I/O with a factory tower, large swim platform and only 20 hours on the fuel inj 5L.
So the 29 cent question as we looked around we considered and inboard or V-drive ....
What makes them worth double the cost of an I/O ???
One can see the obvious differences between these and a I/O.
Hull design ( Deep V's handle rough water better ) ( wake board boats make better wakes)
Ballast systems ( built in ballast tanks on wake board boats )
Top speed ( Deep V's with I/O usually higher top end speed.)( wake board boats use even bigger motors with lots of low end power)
Seating (wife didn't like the reverse seating of the co-pilots seat....)( wake boats seat more )
Reverse steering ( N/A on inboards and V- drives)
The dealer indicated they wake surf behind I/O that have the large swim platforms by just weighting one side of the boat.
So I e-mailed the manufacture, Boat smart and searched a bunch of boat specific chat forms...
Manufacture answer was non com-ital, politically correct answer.... wasn't tested for that so we cant comment.
Boats Smart answer with contact the manufacture....
And the forms were filled with militant answers form both sides of the augment....
If we decide that wake surfing is what we want to do a high percent of the time, I could see wanting a wake that is easier to build and maintain, but for the odd crack at it....
The rider would be off to the side and back from the boat, so to reach the prop you would have to fall forward and to the side 6' to 10' and down at least 4' to 5'.
Boat and rider travelling at 15 MPH rider falls forward hits the water that's travelling zero MPH. The risk of hitting the boat behind either boat is there but hitting the prop???
That's question two, your thoughts of wake surfing behind a I/O.
PS we have been tubing, skiing and wake boarding behind it already and like the power, handling and ride .....