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To make the jet ski buying process easy I've gone through and compared every Sea-Doo, Yamaha, and Kawasaki. I'll try to be unbiased as possible � Jet Ski vs. PWC vs. Waverunner. Before I go too deep, I need to clear up the wording that is used to describe these things. The most common way to describe them is by calling them Jet Skis. This is what I use most often and what most everyone uses. But Jet Skis can also be called PWC or Waverunner. This is just marketing names for each manufacturer. Jet Ski = Kawasaki. See more ideas about yamaha boats, yamaha, boat.� The Yamaha Limited S jet boat brings several new innovations to the market, including a new hull design that has dramatically enhanced the ride and handling. Ski Boats Baja Boats Wakeboard Boats. Center Console Boats.� Here you'll find some of the best products and services introduced or significantly updated in the last year from boats to engines to accessories to software. Fast Boats Cool Boats. Jet Ski. Yamaha Waverunner. Wakeboard Boats. Yamaha�s Waverunners take home the trophy for the most reliable jet ski, but there are some good runner ups. Kawasaki and the now extinct Honda jet skis are both renowned for their dependability. The problem with Kawasaki is they aren�t quite as dependable as a Yamaha, and their engines can be tricky to work on. Many people stand by Kawasaki and argue it as the most reliable jet ski, but in the end Yamaha usually beats them out.� I have got a Yamaha Waveblaster 2 on the back of my boat. I have owned this ski for 4 years it has never let me down and it has probably done 6/ hours and pretty sure the engine has never been appart!!!!! Leave a reply Cancel reply.

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Search titles only. Search Advanced search�. New posts. Search forums. Your purchases. Log in. Welcome to Jetboaters. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. In the ocean. Bullseye Well-Known Member. Iv'e been reading in the forum and unable to locate much discussion about the lack of trim on a jet boat vs.

I'm in the market for a boat and like alot of the pros to a jet drive but concerned about the seaworthiness of the boats in rough water as most of my boating in on the great lakes. A lot of the models seem to have a very low bow and seems that it would be easy to stuff the bow in a wave.

Thanks for the input. When it gets rough, I throttle down and raise the bow to 'plow' the boat thru the waves. Not real fuel efficient but it calms the slamming and my wife and still gets us around. The boats are light, but that's part of what makes them so fun and fast!

Evildwarf Jetboaters Lieutenant. There are people who will disagree with the Dwarf on this one but these boats are not good in heavy chop. These are great light water boats but large swell and high wind would be a real challenge. There are lots of people who run these puppies in the ocean and on larger lakes and are happy with the Yamaha performance.

I worked in commercial fishing sterning a lobster boat when I was a younger man and I love the ocean but I'm a flat water boater now. If I were looking for a boat for bigger water I would look for something with a deeper V hull and more weight I've been in the ocean quite a bit with my 24', and gotta say the ocean has been more forgiving than a rough day on the northern Chesapeake Bay. Swells and waves tend to be spaced further apart in the ocean, making for a more forgiving ride.

You can add trim tabs to give you even more capabilities in rougher water, quite a few on here have done , I've been kicking it around myself as I enjoy taking longer runs on my boat and have been caught in rougher water a few times on my way back home.

Add some trim tabs and you'll have the best of both worlds! Gym Jetboaters Admiral. I run exclusively in the ocean. What some are describing here would come under the catagory of "small craft warning" conditions. These conditions would apply to all craft within a certain length. I have been out in 5 foot swells and 3 foot chop.

I'll take the swells any day but the boat will handle it better than your passengers. Don't forget, these boats are built for speed, performance and easy maintenance.

They are a pretty good compromise af speed and comfort. If you want to go out fishing in most conditions this is not your boat. If, however you want to take your family out for a day on the water these boats are worthy of consideration. Check our member map. Possibly we have a member in your location who can give you better advise about boating on the Great Lakes and would likely take you for a ride for your own evaluation.

Blazin14 Jet Boat Addict. I boat in the upper cheasapake and the conditions can get bad on a windy day. These boats will make it thru these conditions but like others say if u want fish or hang out in it during these conditions this boat is not the right boat.. I would buy another yammy in a heart beat. Bruce Jetboaters Fleet Admiral Staff member. You can install trim tabs.

They will not let you raise the bow but do allow you to push the bow down softening wave crossings with the trade off of more splash. My experience is that our boats can handle rougher water than our bodies.

MrMoose Jetboaters Captain. I agree with almost all that has been said up to this point. Andy S would be a good member to chime in as well as ClemsonTiger as they have recent experience owning both types of boats. These boats have low bows and many of the ski lockers will take on water rain or wave from the deck. Trim tabs will not help with the situation that concerns you. They'll only pull your bow down. The only way to raise the bow is to operate at sub-plane speed.

In big waves, you're toast if you decelerate too fast and cause your bow to dip. I would not be comfortable floating in this boat with seas above 2. Planing in 3 foot seas is reasonable, but not enjoyable. Plans have to be open in order to pick the times where the seas are safe enough for this type of boat.

Waiting for more pics and videos. Andy S Jetboaters Admiral. Here is my opinion of the differences between my previous SX and my Cobalt R5 in open water conditions. Specs Yamaha - 23' long, 20 degrees dead rise, dry weight of lbs, carries 50 gallons of fuel, twin jet propulsion, and no trim ability.

In sea conditions were the wave are spaced far enough apart were you are not running across the top of them, the Cobalt rarely slaps the water whereas the Yamaha almost constantly slapped the water.

Driving through waves in the Cobalt is much smoother, more like a knife cutting through not a board slapping. No specs on this but my belief is that the hull on the Yamaha's bow area is flatter than the same area on the Cobalt, the Cobalt has a sharper bow area.

To me this difference in bow hull area is the main reason for the smoother ride. The downside to the sharper bow area on my Cobalt was that it threw a lot of water vertically that came over the sides and into the cockpit whereas the Yamaha with its flatter bow threw the water out horizontally providing a drier ride.

The advantage of trim on the Cobalt is only a minimal advantage. Stating the obvious, at any speed I can raise and lower the bow with trim, I no longer have to adjust speed to raise the bow. The ability to trim didn't seem to make a difference on our Exuma trip, Isaac Yamaha and my Cobalt were able to run at the same speeds in the same conditions. In my opinion the bows on the Yamaha's from are to low for rough water, there is a decent chance you will take a wave over the nose of the boat.

The Yamaha's from and have a higher bow resulting in a much smaller chance of taking a wave over the bow. In any sort of rough seas expect your Yammie to last for two waves, one to swamp it and the second to sink it!

I agree - should have said "in any sort of rough seas with your Yammie disabled You must log in or register to reply here.

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