Malibu question

metalic_era · Criminal Joined: 05 Aug 2008 Posts: 80

92 Malibu echelon lx
How will this handle rougher water?
Wake?
Overall opinions of these boats?

Thanks

ridininmd · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 1231

I don't know about the wake but pretty much any boat of that era is going to be pretty brutal in the chop. They are ski boats and had really flat bottoms to minimize the wake, some can be pretty good when weighted but that flat bottom doesn't cut the surface it just smacks onto it. Most wakeboats suck in rough water, the hulls aren't designed for it. If the water is really rough and ride matters I'd look more towards an I/O and then set it up for wakeboarding.

anw7405 · Outlaw Joined: 10 Sep 2010 Posts: 188 City: edmond

The echelon is a low freeboard ski boat. It might put out an ok wake but you will not be able to put much weight in it. Like ridininmd said ski and wakeboard boats pretty much suck in choppy water. You need to evaluate where you will be boating and how much you wakeboard, ski, surf to know what kind of boat you want. The wakeboard wake and surf wake are good on the boat below though. notice how much more freeboard you have on this boat compared to the echelon.
http://ventura.craigslist.org/boa/3129124149.html

metalic_era · Criminal Joined: 05 Aug 2008 Posts: 80

I was actually looking around for a sunsetter when I came across the Echelon. It was priced right but I think I will keep looking for a Sunsetter or prostar 205 or Sunscape. I found a cherry 85 sunscape 5 miles from me but I think I want to get away from the wood.

anw7405 · Outlaw Joined: 10 Sep 2010 Posts: 188 City: edmond

What state are you in?

metalic_era · Criminal Joined: 05 Aug 2008 Posts: 80

Illinois

anw7405 · Outlaw Joined: 10 Sep 2010 Posts: 188 City: edmond

don't know your price range but this one looks like it has been well taken care of.

http://chattanooga.craigslist.org/boa/3181088034.html