Don't want to piss in your corn flakes but usually there is a reason the "price is right". If you are thinking about power right out of the gate, this should be giving you a possible flag (color to be determined). Sounds like you have a little different circumstance than most if your at 5000ft.
With a base motor and no trailer it should be a really really good deal. It would be interesting to know why the guy who has the boat "just doesn't have time to use it". There is a reason he is using the "bigger" boat. Maybe it's not the amount of peeps he can have on board but the bigger engine that the bigger boat has.
I suspect you have been looking long and hard trying to find the "right" boat. I hope this one is the right one for you, but in this case, I think it would be REALLY IMPORTANT to test this puppy out in the conditions you are going to be using it in.
It is always nice to have some wiggle room in the the space and power department instead of wishing you had something a little bigger or with more power after the first year of boating.
Why am I saying this, cause I made this error myself. I got a boat that was the great deal but at the end of the first year, I was so done with stepping on people and gear trying to get around in the boat. And then I had the smaller engine too which could do the job but about the time I wanting to deap water starts for skiing, I was wishing I had the bigger engine.
I have never been in a Z1, I have been in a 20v with a 340 and I own a 22v with a 340 and they both perform GREAT! First year of having the 22v we put 1100 lbs sacs in the rear (filling to about 800-900 lbs) and 400lbs sas in the sides. This is going to be our second season and I just ordered another 800 lbs of sacs to add to what we already have. The wake was great last summer but I think it can get even better after reading how others weight their boats.
So after only one year we are adding weight and we just got started. I really wonder if you are at 5000ft with 275hps engine and if you put some ballast in that puppy how it will perform. Others have eluded to this, I am just being a little more direct.
LWNDR having a 320hp motor is 45 more ponies and that doesn't seem like it would make that much of a difference but I suspect it WILL.
Please don't take this wrong, I am not an expert at all. It's just my opinion and it might not be worth much but look at the majority of the theme of the comments.
Well, I hope I didn't piss all over your corn flakes but I would want someone to just tell it straight. Sounds like most wouldn't have much of a problem with this boat if it was at sea level.
Good Luck....there is a boat out there for you I am sure!
With a base motor and no trailer it should be a really really good deal. It would be interesting to know why the guy who has the boat "just doesn't have time to use it". There is a reason he is using the "bigger" boat. Maybe it's not the amount of peeps he can have on board but the bigger engine that the bigger boat has.
I suspect you have been looking long and hard trying to find the "right" boat. I hope this one is the right one for you, but in this case, I think it would be REALLY IMPORTANT to test this puppy out in the conditions you are going to be using it in.
It is always nice to have some wiggle room in the the space and power department instead of wishing you had something a little bigger or with more power after the first year of boating.
Why am I saying this, cause I made this error myself. I got a boat that was the great deal but at the end of the first year, I was so done with stepping on people and gear trying to get around in the boat. And then I had the smaller engine too which could do the job but about the time I wanting to deap water starts for skiing, I was wishing I had the bigger engine.
I have never been in a Z1, I have been in a 20v with a 340 and I own a 22v with a 340 and they both perform GREAT! First year of having the 22v we put 1100 lbs sacs in the rear (filling to about 800-900 lbs) and 400lbs sas in the sides. This is going to be our second season and I just ordered another 800 lbs of sacs to add to what we already have. The wake was great last summer but I think it can get even better after reading how others weight their boats.
So after only one year we are adding weight and we just got started. I really wonder if you are at 5000ft with 275hps engine and if you put some ballast in that puppy how it will perform. Others have eluded to this, I am just being a little more direct.
LWNDR having a 320hp motor is 45 more ponies and that doesn't seem like it would make that much of a difference but I suspect it WILL.
Please don't take this wrong, I am not an expert at all. It's just my opinion and it might not be worth much but look at the majority of the theme of the comments.
Well, I hope I didn't piss all over your corn flakes but I would want someone to just tell it straight. Sounds like most wouldn't have much of a problem with this boat if it was at sea level.
Good Luck....there is a boat out there for you I am sure!
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