your dream boat...

[Tige M.D.]

if you could build your ultimate wakeboard boat what would it be? i would like to take a little bit from each manufacture. what would you like to see in your new tige? get creative, i'm sure we could all come up with some cool ideas.

[David]

I would want to have an boat with:

23 Foot V-Drive

2000 Pounds of Auto-Fill Ballast with Gauges on the Dash.

360 Hp Motor to pull anyone out of the water with full tanks.

Black Hull, Red Main Panel, Black Deck.

Something similar to Malibu's Gel Coat with a smaller version of the West Coast Graphics on the side of It.

The Malibu Titan Tower or a MasterCraft Tower.

360 Degree rotation Board Racks. 4 Sets of Racks, 8 Boards total.

7 Light Bar - 4 Back & 3 Front.

6 Fusion Series Speakers.

2 Twelve Inch Subs

Custon Vinyl Graphics on the back similar to the West Coast Graphics.

Grey Vinyl Seats with Black and Red Bead in a Pin-Stripe design.

Taps2 plate.

Chrome accessories - Everything chromed out.

[Tige M.D.]

sounds good to me. i like the part about CHROME everything.

[smendez]

Two speed transmission. This way we can get people out of the water when weighed down, but yet do 55 MPH when you're cruising across the lake.

[Matt Garcia]

2000 pounds of automatic ballast that is hidden or mostly hidden.

Board racks that swivel and are not in the drivers peripheral vision.

A dash or cockpit that has some detail to it such as chrome bezels around the display, something that is stylish and not flat and boring. It should have some depth to it and still be easy to read. For example, the Mastercrafts X45 and Xstar are nice.

A gel coat pattern that has some type of pattern in it. Such as a carbon fiber look. An example would be the new 05 CWB Absolute boards. If you look at the boards up close they have a nice carbon pattern to it, but from far away its not as noticeable.

The tower should be thick and solid with plenty of head clearance (like the 05 Tige Towers).

All white or all red would be my color of choice.

That's al I could think of for now.

[GIZMO]

A huge gas tank
eletric cooler
lexus power plant like in the toyota boats.
and that two speed tranny would be great.


GIZMO

[Tige M.D.]

136 of you have read this and only 5 of you have a dream boat. i get more suggestions than that from people that walk in the door here every day. come on guy's lets hear it. what do you want and look for in a boat? lets hear from some of the wifes, everytime i take a boat from here my wife has a ear full of ideas. some good and some bad but at least she knows what she likes.

[Matt Garcia]

Originally posted by Tige M.D.
lets hear from some of the wifes, everytime i take a boat from here my wife has a ear full of ideas. some good and some bad but at least she knows what she likes.

I asked my wife and she said "pockets in the storage area", that way you can stow sandals, ropes, lotion etc. on the walls of the storage compartments. A fancier dash was also mentioned. The most comical was " a push button bimini top" kind of like a convertible top. I think that only refers to my model since you can burn up to 2000 calories trying to assemble my bimini top!

I would still like to see hidden, automated ballast (fast too, like 1000 or 2000 gph pumps) that doesn't kill storage space.

Also what about a stereo system that turns up and down. Example, when you slow down it turns down to speak to your rider, etc., when you speed up it turns up. I hate having to mess with the volume all of the time.

Board racks that are user friendly. I notice when I ride I or the person in the boat has to take them down off the tower and then place them on the back of the boat while the rider is suiting up. The same goes for putting them up, you have to twist around the tower to put them back on. How about having board racks that are placed on the gunnels sides of the engine area?

[David]

Originally posted by Matt Garcia


Also what about a stereo system that turns up and down. Example, when you slow down it turns down to speak to your rider, etc., when you speed up it turns up. I hate having to mess with the volume all of the time.

Great, Great Idea! That is something I see every driver having to do. Always messing with the stereo while try to talk/hear the rider. That would be an amazing thing for a boat to have!

[balair]

My dream boat would bo sort of a mix between an X-star and a Tige.

-It would be a 24V Riders Edition. The bottom of the Hull would be Blue along with the main panel. The back end would be red.

-Same layout as the Tige but built like a mastercraft. No offense, but Mastercrafts are a little higher quality boat, but they also have the 77,000 dollar price tag to go with it. My best freiends leased an X-Star and always bashed my boat as being "inferior." When they got it taken away because they couldn't afford it, I bashed them for not having a boat and wouldn't let them on mine because it wasn't "good enough" for them. F*** them I say. I got a new crew and we all freakin' love my Tige, especially when there is about ten of us in it. That wake is unreal. I can't wait to get ballast this summer. Hell with Master craft too. As my Tige dealer says, Mastercrafts are for people with too much money to burn.

-Big gauges for everything because I love big colorful gauges to read data on things that I don't even care about.

-I like the new towers on the '05s, so I will stay with that.

-A light/speaker bar consisting of bright xenon lights and four Alpine Speakers

-Two 12" Alpine X-type subs powered by a 3000 watt Rockford amp because they really bump.

-A 2000 lb. ballast system with light up switches like the ones that rival ballast systems has.

-The engine would be an LS2 out of a Corvette because the make alot more power than cadallac and toyota engines. They are pushin around 450 hp. I would like the block to be cast rather than aluminum because there is no reason to save weight in a wakeboarding boat. The more the better.

-The new fiberglass deck looks nice because it doesn't require as much maintenence as my teak one.

-I would also put in xm radio and all Alpine speakers.

-One of Sony's new HD camera's would be nice to film out day out on the lake would be nice as well.

[whitlock87]

I would like a boat that rides like a large I/O ( Smooth in rough water ) but handles and has the power of a good V drive. It would have a computer that monitors everything ( Speed, all engine functions, air temp, and FUEL ). You’d have the ability to preset different options. ( Like speed and Taps settings )
A power seat that could change in height.
And as long as we are wishing, some kind of retractable skid plates that could be used if you wanted to beach your boat. ( Yes I know, Never beach your boat, but what if you could with out fear of damage? )

[farmacist]

My wife says the same about the storage compartments that Matt's wife desires and she agrees with the ballast ideas. Also adds that hot/cold shower should be standard.

[CTRider]

I would love to see a boat with gel coat that does not get blisters (Boat Pox’s) when you leave it in the water. (This is the biggest thing all boat manufactures need to do it’s a boat and boats are used in the water.)

An automatic ballast system that is fast with gauges showing how full each tank is and separate pumps for each tank so you can adjust the wake the same each time for different riders or different sports.

I agree with the radio volume, maybe a switch on the throttle like the taps switch to raise and lower the volume or a pause/mute button on the throttle that would pause the CD or mute the speakers.

An adjustable seat height for the driver one that would raise and lower the post so it is comfortable for all size drivers.

A quality tower that does not shake has room for several board racks with easy access and does not block the drivers view.

An engine with lots of torque to get the boat up to speed quickly when loaded with weight but does not suck all your gas doing so.

A bimini top that fits the tower and is easy to fold up and bring down.

All in a boat that is affordable for your average working person.

[kskjbuzz]

All very good ideas. And here is mine.

We boat in colder weather. Most people think we're nuts but who cares I'm having fun. A plexeglass slip in in the walk way like Malibu would be nice. No ofence but the stif vinyl one that came with my boat is cheese.

Balast that fill fast. Boards racks that are easey to get to and have no stupid bungie cords to hold them on. Extra little compartments behind the walls of the boat sides, front and back (like the malibu we saw.) My wife realy loved them. Places to but towels sunscreen ect. without having to open the big storage are. A stero remote at the rear of the boat also. Mute buttom works great for me to talk w/the rider. But the auto volume like on my GMC Duramax would be cool.

I'm sure i could think of more given more time.


Kyle

[lee]

The 2005 boats have a drop in windscreen.