Buying a Ski

water · Pop Shuvit Joined: 16 Jul 2007 Posts: 136 City: Brotown

I got a job for the summer and was looking into buying a jet ski for wakeskating in Orlando. I'll hopefully have around $2000-2500 to spend. I was looking at the 04 sea-doo 700xl in my boat trader. Any suggestions?

Gnarly Dancer 42 · 360 flip Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 5121 City: kalamazoo

get it

kyle41 · Posted: Jul 18, 2007 7:40 pm Post subject:

if i were you i would try and find an old yamaha 800 or 700. Much more reliable speaking from experience.

nickl011 · Posted: Jul 18, 2007 8:03 pm Post subject:

I like the RXP's or RXT's. But if you didnt need as much power, I'd go for an older GTX

T-slice · Ollie Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 68 City: Houston

id go for a yamaha personally, but seadoo's are awesome as well

Slapdown · Kickflip Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 4240 City: Austin

Yamaha and SeaDoo are both nice as hell. I prefer Yamaha because of the insane i/o wake mine has. I have a '98 1200 and i got it for i think... 3300, so for a little bit less i'm sure you could find almost as good Wink

water · Pop Shuvit Joined: 16 Jul 2007 Posts: 136 City: Brotown

the one thing im worried about when buying a ski is the reliability it has based on it's condition cause im not gonna have any money left once i lay down all that cash for it. so hopefully i can find one that isn't old as hell and won't blow up on me in less than a year

Br0s3ph · Faceplant Joined: 30 May 2007 Posts: 8 City: Orlando

You should get a jetski that has a big trunk cuz im gonna park my bike in it!

P.S. my bike is my genitals, and the big trunk is your anus Birthday

Slapdown · Kickflip Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 4240 City: Austin

Br0s3ph,

Gnarly Dancer 42 · 360 flip Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 5121 City: kalamazoo

Slapdown,

I <3 TNT · Ollie Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 96 City: Groveland

Pwater, personaly i wouldnt consider getting anything other than a Kawasaki. I have a 99, 900 three seater that has never broken down and barely uses any gas. I call her Charlene. She is about to turn 900(hours). I have broke way too many sea doo's in my day to even think about one. The Yamahas are nice and all but they are to big and waste so much gas(compared to my Kawasaki).

tad · 360 flip Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 5031

My buddy has the Kawi STX12F or whatever and its gone through 3 motor rebuilds (under warranty). Kyle41 has the Yamaha VX110 Delux and its the best ski ive ever ridden behind or driven. And my buddy has two VX Cruisers. The Yamaha's have such a solid pull and stay at speed with no problem, the wake is way more solid than any other ski ive ridden behind. And I've yet to hear any problems with it. My other friend has a RXP and it runs like crap. This is just my personal experience, not proven data, Ive ridden behind tons of ski's and I think the Yamaha is the best.

water · Pop Shuvit Joined: 16 Jul 2007 Posts: 136 City: Brotown

Yeah i just came back up from south florida to ride for the weekend and im gonna pick up a boat trader and see whats around thats for sale. my friend has 3 skis and might consider selling me one for a really good deal. i believe they're yamaha's. My boat runs on yamaha engines and i trust that they are really reliable.