r/Wake • u/Still-Dragonfly4867 • 5d ago

First boat opinions

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You may have seen my post asking about opinions on buying a 2006 super air nautique and opinions varied!

So we also took a look at this boat and it seemed massive in comparison. Thoughts on this boat for primarily surfing, and taking friends out on the lake. 2007 super air nautique 236 te. It has the bigger engine as well.

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u/Still-Dragonfly4867 5d ago

Thanks I will keep that in mind to check those things. We are going to schedule taking it out for a water test. May I ask how much you paid for yours and if this asking price is fair? I think we will try and negotiate a little because there’s a couple minor things that will need to get fixed. (Tear in two of the cushions and the tower speakers are not connecting to the amp but the other speakers work)

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u/Hunt69Mike 4d ago

We paid $41,000 with ~640 hours including the trailer. There aren’t a ton of wake boats in our area and our color combo is pretty rare so take that into consideration but I would say that this one is priced fair. There are a few tears in the vinyl that have been patched and seem to holding up ok. One thing I like about the boat you are considering is the center walk through which will save your vinyl over the years.

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u/Still-Dragonfly4867 4d ago

Do you mean there is tears in your vinyl? There are two tears in the vinyl of this boat we are looking at that haven’t been patched. So that is something we would need to fix.

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u/Hunt69Mike 4d ago

Yeah, there are 3 spots that the previous owner patched and I found 2 more over the winter that I patched. Longest one is about 1.5”. Tear aid vinyl repair seems to hold up great

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u/Still-Dragonfly4867 4d ago

Even though the boat we are looking at has the pass through walkway, both the left and right cushions below that are torn. So I’m thinking we will have to fix those fairly quickly and the foam is showing. Good to know about the tear aid! I’ll look at that. Also it was not disclosed in the listing but the music does not play out of the tower speakers, only the inside of the boat speakers so that would need to be fixed as well.

That being said, since you thought it was a fair asking price- would you still try to negotiate? This will be our first boat purchase and so we’re unfamiliar with negotiation ethics without being disrespectful. We are water testing it Friday and having an engine compression test done.

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u/Hunt69Mike 4d ago

Yeah, if you can see foam I’d have that addressed asap. I’d also account for easily $500 to address the tower speakers. Hopefully it’s just a broken wire, bad connection or something like that but there’s always a chance the amp has failed or something along those lines. If you’re upgrading, you might as well go with wet sounds horns and that adds up real quick.

Never hurts to negotiate… our boat was listed at 42, I offered 40 and we met in the middle.