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Gents,
I’m new to the Natique forum and looking for some collective wisdom from the crowd here .... We bought our Moomba LSV new as our first surf boat back in 2014 when we bought our lake home up in Northern Wisconsin (Eagle River area), and it’s been a great family boat. With three boys and a wife who loves the boat, we surf and ski as a family, and occasionally do some tubing when we have friends up. It’s been a great cocktail cruiser as well, so it’s served us well over the last 6 years. We keep the boat on a covered lift from Memorial Day though October-ish, and we service and store it indoors at the dealer for winter. We also have a 1936 Chris Craft 19’ Runabout as our slow cruiser, so the surf boat gets a bit of a rest now and then.
However, with our twin boys now graduated from college and working far away, they are only getting up to the lake once a year, leaving the bulk of our time at the lake with my wife, our youngest son (a Junior in high school), and me. Since we love to surf, we’ve had to upgrade all our bags and still fill 2 additional 650’s with a Tsunami pump under the surf side rear seats. Even then, with only 3 in the boat the wave is mediocre at best and it’s frankly a pain with the extra bags. And since we also ski, lead isn’t an option. The bottom line is that with 300 hours on our LSV, getting tired of constantly filling and emptying the extra bags for just a mediocre wave, the lack of technology on a 6-year old boat, and getting tired of the entry-level trim on our Moomba, I’m looking to upgrade our boat and drop some coin doing it.
We’ve only got 2 inboard dealerships in the area, one who only sell MasterCraft and the other who only sells Natiques. I want to stick with a 21’-22’ boat and I want an easy/efficient ballast system that will produce a great wave, but I want to be able to ski as well as we’re not wake boarders. The fit & finish of the Moomba lineup is subpar, and that’s also important for our next boat.
So here’s my question for you guys: Faced with considering moving to either a new GS22 or a new X22, what are your thoughts? I have no experience with either boat and I plan to demo both this summer, but I’m doing my due diligence now and would really appreciate anyone’s experience who has surfed and skied behind both boats. I’m also interested in what you guys have experienced with Master Craft and Natique from from a quality and service perspective. Thanks for any help and guidance on this, and I’m looking forward to any help you can provide.
I’m new to the Natique forum and looking for some collective wisdom from the crowd here .... We bought our Moomba LSV new as our first surf boat back in 2014 when we bought our lake home up in Northern Wisconsin (Eagle River area), and it’s been a great family boat. With three boys and a wife who loves the boat, we surf and ski as a family, and occasionally do some tubing when we have friends up. It’s been a great cocktail cruiser as well, so it’s served us well over the last 6 years. We keep the boat on a covered lift from Memorial Day though October-ish, and we service and store it indoors at the dealer for winter. We also have a 1936 Chris Craft 19’ Runabout as our slow cruiser, so the surf boat gets a bit of a rest now and then.
However, with our twin boys now graduated from college and working far away, they are only getting up to the lake once a year, leaving the bulk of our time at the lake with my wife, our youngest son (a Junior in high school), and me. Since we love to surf, we’ve had to upgrade all our bags and still fill 2 additional 650’s with a Tsunami pump under the surf side rear seats. Even then, with only 3 in the boat the wave is mediocre at best and it’s frankly a pain with the extra bags. And since we also ski, lead isn’t an option. The bottom line is that with 300 hours on our LSV, getting tired of constantly filling and emptying the extra bags for just a mediocre wave, the lack of technology on a 6-year old boat, and getting tired of the entry-level trim on our Moomba, I’m looking to upgrade our boat and drop some coin doing it.
We’ve only got 2 inboard dealerships in the area, one who only sell MasterCraft and the other who only sells Natiques. I want to stick with a 21’-22’ boat and I want an easy/efficient ballast system that will produce a great wave, but I want to be able to ski as well as we’re not wake boarders. The fit & finish of the Moomba lineup is subpar, and that’s also important for our next boat.
So here’s my question for you guys: Faced with considering moving to either a new GS22 or a new X22, what are your thoughts? I have no experience with either boat and I plan to demo both this summer, but I’m doing my due diligence now and would really appreciate anyone’s experience who has surfed and skied behind both boats. I’m also interested in what you guys have experienced with Master Craft and Natique from from a quality and service perspective. Thanks for any help and guidance on this, and I’m looking forward to any help you can provide.
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