XH2Oskier
08-17-2003, 02:18 PM
First of all, let me preface my comments by saying I'm a casual skier/wakeboarder/tuber who owns a '97 Sport Nautique and doesn't use it nearly enough. I have in recent years been able to get more active on the water and I was throwing around the idea of trading in/selling my '97 for a newer boat, especially because I have two different parties interested in buying my current boat. For this reason, I went to the Nautique website, filled out the info, etc... and now I have a booklet sitting in front of me.
Where are the dates on this thing? Maybe I missed it, but there is nothing on the front or back cover that states whether the boats and options I'm looking at are for '03 or '04 (or maybe even '02, who knows?). The only place I could find a date was in the fine print at the bottom of the color options page, way in the back, where 2004 is listed next to the copyright logo. So which model year is it?
While I like our Sport Nautique, I would consider an open bow Ski Nautique 206, but I'd have to check out the open bow area and walk-through in person before I made that decision.
In looking at the Sport Nautique 216 and the Air Nautique 216 in the catalog, the major differences between the two seem to be the ballast tanks, tower and swim platform. I am not serious enough about wakeboarding to want ballast tanks, but I would like the tower and I absolutely hate my teak platform and would much rather have the composite platform. Would it be possible to order a Sport Nautique with the tower and composite platform, but without the ballast tanks?
I'm also not crazy about the tape pinstriping on my '97. I thought it was kind of low-quality when I originally bought the boat new and my feelings haven't changed much. Have they done away with the tape yet?
Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but unless I let the gas trickle into the boat, it almost always spills over when I'm filling it up. Am I doing it wrong or have they corrected this problem? The gas also messed up my tape and stained my hull when it expanded and seeped out of the overflow/air vent.
There's a couple of other nagging issues, but they could be attributed to the dealer, so I won't bother mentioning them in this thread. Any input/advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Jim
Where are the dates on this thing? Maybe I missed it, but there is nothing on the front or back cover that states whether the boats and options I'm looking at are for '03 or '04 (or maybe even '02, who knows?). The only place I could find a date was in the fine print at the bottom of the color options page, way in the back, where 2004 is listed next to the copyright logo. So which model year is it?
While I like our Sport Nautique, I would consider an open bow Ski Nautique 206, but I'd have to check out the open bow area and walk-through in person before I made that decision.
In looking at the Sport Nautique 216 and the Air Nautique 216 in the catalog, the major differences between the two seem to be the ballast tanks, tower and swim platform. I am not serious enough about wakeboarding to want ballast tanks, but I would like the tower and I absolutely hate my teak platform and would much rather have the composite platform. Would it be possible to order a Sport Nautique with the tower and composite platform, but without the ballast tanks?
I'm also not crazy about the tape pinstriping on my '97. I thought it was kind of low-quality when I originally bought the boat new and my feelings haven't changed much. Have they done away with the tape yet?
Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but unless I let the gas trickle into the boat, it almost always spills over when I'm filling it up. Am I doing it wrong or have they corrected this problem? The gas also messed up my tape and stained my hull when it expanded and seeped out of the overflow/air vent.
There's a couple of other nagging issues, but they could be attributed to the dealer, so I won't bother mentioning them in this thread. Any input/advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Jim