Our 24Ve is on its way!!! (photos inside)

[Ewok]

That's a beautiful boat! Enjoy!

[Nobody]

Here are photos after the boat was unwrapped:




No on-water photos today, sorry. We were having too much fun learning and experimenting and tearing around. We put over three engine hours on the boat today and didn't even get started until after noon.

Remember, it's early October up here and most people aren't thinking about boats anymore for the season. But we had an 84F day today and when we started driving that new Tige 24Ve around folks came out of the woodwork!

We pulled one neighbor on a slalom ski until he couldn't hold on anymore. We pulled my 8YO son on his wakeboard so he could start getting a feel for the MUCH more significant wake this boat throws out. Some friends from Spokane drove out just to take a ride on the boat. And a semi-pro wakesurfer - also my son's wakeboarding coach - just happened to be around and jumped right in to see what the boat could do.

With just a couple of adults, my son, and our dog acting as ballast we got the beginnings of a beautiful surf save. Taps at 8, about 10.5 MPH, gave the best shape. Our wakesurfing friend normally drives a Centurion but was so impressed with the 24Ve and the wave it was generating that he offered to pull all the fat sacs out of his boat and make them available for us tomorrow.

We're meeting up late tomorrow morning to load up the ballast and see what the 24Ve can do. I hope to take some videos of the results, and I'll post them here.

This is getting seriously fun now!

Nice looking boat. That one was on Dom showroom floor I believe.
Nothing like the spaciousness of a 24 footer. Thanks for the pictures, everyone (including myself) enjoys sharing your excitement.

[Kvon]

Saaaaweeeeet.

Great looking boat and congrats!

[KonaKing]

Thats a big boat. Nice looking also

[robert theisen]

good looking boat. i like the colors and the alpha z tower.it,s very sharp.welcome to the tige family.

[IDBoating]

On-water photos...

Here are a couple of on-water photos (taken with a small pocket camera with poor optics, sorry):




I've also posted some videos of wakesurfing behind the 24Ve in this thread:

http://www.tigeowners.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13710

In two days we burned all but ~6 gallons of fuel in the tank. Now it's filled up with stabilized, fresh, 92 octane, non-ethanol gasoline for its long winter's nap.

Thanks!