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[Echo Lodge]

https://surfboss.wistia.com/medias/y9944uqpeh

What is next? Performance boat dock wreckers with ballast?

 

[guest hs]

Is it a Vdrive

 

[Echo Lodge]

Is it a Vdrive

Good point!

https://boatingindustry.com/news/2018/10/08/minnesota-based-montara-boats-introduces-surf-pontoon/

After that test, Overbye went back to our Montara's engineering and asked for additional calculations, and a capacity projection on what the boat could carry in terms of engines, ballast, and additional gear. The 25-foot Surf Boss will carry 25,000 pounds of mass. "We plan on going much bigger," he said.

 

[HighVoltage329]

This could be a game changer.

 

[4Waters]

I actually like this better than a wake boat.

 

[rrrr]

The video clip shows the boat and a wake surfer running the shoreline about 50' from private docks. The boat will fit right in with the rest of the idiots that destroy property and damage other boats.

 

[waterhorse]

Looks like fun for the wakeboarder and pure hell and destruction for everyone within a hundred yards.

 

[cofooter]

GEH!

 

[Echo Lodge]

GEH!

Come on.... They showed a guy footin behind it!!!

https://victoria.craigslist.org/bod/d/surrey-montara-surf-boss-23-incoming/6782144562.html

 

[Flying_Lavey]

Flatties beware?? Shit, any boat that doesn't have 2 feet of freeboard beware.

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[coolchange]

I think we need to start a trend of approaching every one of those barges from their starboard as the stand-on vessel.

 

[cofooter]

Come on.... They showed a guy footin behind it!!!

https://victoria.craigslist.org/bod/d/surrey-montara-surf-boss-23-incoming/6782144562.html

The founder (Overbye) used to design and build some great slalom boats (Gekko) and was a competitive slalom skier himself. Unfortunately, the market for slalom boats has all but dried up in favor of these types of boats. Makes me sad........

 

[STV_Keith]

I think we need to start a trend of approaching every one of those barges from their starboard as the stand-on vessel.

And you think the numbskulls driving these things know the waterway laws? LOL

 

[brgrcru]

glad there is always the lower river

 

[tunnel vision]

And you think the numbskulls driving these things know the waterway laws? LOL

NOPE ALL IDIOTS!

 

[RiverDave]

I think we need to start a trend of approaching every one of those barges from their starboard as the stand-on vessel.

And you think the numbskulls driving these things know the waterway laws? LOL

Half the guys on RDP aren't going to know what that is.. LOL

RD

 

[RiverDave]

I can't tell if that thing is a jet boat or a v-drive?

Personally I don't like the looks of it, but honestly I think the guy is going to make a ton of money.. He's hitting on the functionality of both tow boat and pontoon. The #'s don't lie and are right there in the article.. Tow boats are 10,000 units per year. Toons are 52,000 units.. He will probably land somewhere in between if they can ramp them up, market them and hold their share.

Two things that are interesting is they have the capacity to load 4 times more ballast in it than a traditional wake boat (which I gather they haven't done yet).. And the price point was expected to be 65-75,000 bucks.. That is going to appeal heavily to younger buyers. It's hard to buy any kind of decent boat for that price, let alone a wakeboard boat, or a pontoon boat.

RD

 

[rivrrts429]

glad there is always the lower river

I’ll get you the code to the gate so you can bring those two beautiful boats [emoji106]

 

[Echo Lodge]

I can't tell if that thing is a jet boat or a v-drive? RD

 

[sintax]

Thats like that fucking London jet that rolls by every morning almost swamping my fucking boat, and breaking my anchor loose!

 

[HitIt]

I know most of you don't wakesurf but that wake is pretty terrible. The wakeboard wake looked pretty mediocre, too. I guess if it is cheap enough people might buy it. I would rather buy a used wakeboard if I was in the market.

 

[Echo Lodge]

I know most of you don't wakesurf but that wake is pretty terrible. The wakeboard wake looked pretty mediocre, too. I guess if it is cheap enough people might buy it. I would rather buy a used wakeboard if I was in the market.

http://www.correctcraftfan.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=46898&title=surf-boss

75 Tique wrote:

surfing is dull as dirt and takes about as much skill as tubing!!!

 

[stephenkatsea]

I think we need to start a trend of approaching every one of those barges from their starboard as the stand-on vessel.

You likely mean Crossing from their Starboard. If you Approach from their starboard, that vessel will also be to your starboard.

 

[Outdrive1]

Perfect. [emoji1418]


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[Sleek-Jet]

I actually like this better than a wake boat.

Be nice of they offered an outboard. I like it, or at least what I've seen in a 2 minute video... LOL...

 

[Rondog4405]

Keep that crap in minnesota

 

[SKIDMARC]

I kinda like it!! Best of two worlds.

 

[mobldj]

FUCKIN GAY

 

[HighVoltage329]

I can’t tell how the bottom is shaped? Tritoon would be cool. Flat bottom or slight V not so much. Having a toon that can pull water sports sounds good

 

[4Waters]

They ran the prototype at 42mph with 6000lbs of ballast. That's pretty damn good.

 

[Echo Lodge]

I can’t tell how the bottom is shaped? Tritoon would be cool. Flat bottom or slight V not so much. Having a toon that can pull water sports sounds good

Slight V.... AKA a barge!

 

[HNL2LHC]

Anyone else read the thread title and think that this going to be a fat shaming thread?

Fatties Beware, You have another threat!