Our team will run 1 or 2 inboards if someone can get a good deal for one. We've been stuck with an avalanche (centurion) the last couple of years though. Nice boat for wakeboarding, but that's about it. It's affectionately called the wave maker. In my opinion, inboards are not an ideal show ski team boat for a few reasons. 1. The interiors are too nice for the abuse a team will put it through. 2. A single 150 on an 18' dyne will pull at least as much as (probably more than) a 315 hp inboard. 3. Even with the older fuel injection on outboards, they still generally would use less fuel than an inboard. With todays fuel injection on outboards, they definitely use less fuel than inboards. I am not saying they are a bad boat to use for show skiing, I just don't feel they are ideal. It's probably easier for a new driver to be able to give a good pull for just about anything in an inboard than an outboard. If you have a good relationship with an inboard dealer, you can actually make money with a promo inboard. Some teams are able to get boats super cheap, use them for the summer, and turn around and sell them, sometimes for more than they actually paid in the first place. So it's all a matter of your situation. If you are going for an inboard, go for the standard ski boat though... don't bother with the wakeboard style tanks.
No, we never have and unless someone gives us one, we never will. Several things have worked against us, the biggest one is that the closest inboard dealer is Redline, and they sponsor Mad-City. Next closest is Tinus, and they sponsor the Jays. Redline is 50 miles from us, Tinus is similar. For us economically it just has made sense to buy a dyne hull every 3-4 years and buy and resell motors. We get a couple motors sponsored every year, but we own all of our big ones and have done well with this program really. Unless someone comes in and starts selling inboards on our lake I can't see it happening. Inboards are so expensive now that you can buy and fully equip a boat with twin 200's for the price of an inboard. Dynes have served us well and this way all of our drivers can drive any of our boats effectively, trick releases are all interchangeable, trailers are all interchangeable, my boat lift will take any of our team boats or my personal boat if need be, hydraulic steering is all pretty much the same and so on down the line.
I was just curious our team runs two of them them. I have the priviledge of breaking in the new ones. Our marina tells us to just cruise around and be gentle for the first ten hours. Then we change oil and start pulling skiers. What are other teams doing for breakin time. River rat I agree with you they seem to be easy to give a good pull. But dont underestimate the power. We had a 315 hp two years ago and I pulled a 12 person prefab pyramid when our twin went down. I have always been an outboard guy, but occasionaly I find them fun to drive
That's an impressive pull for a standard motor on an inboard. I do enjoy driving an inboard occasionally as well. I just find an outboard (especially on an 18' dyne) to be more of a fun ride that pulls skiers extremely well.
Just remember, Inboards pull the filler acts, outboards pull the big acts. An inboard is static and does not require a driver to do that much and thus gets boring to me. An outboard has many more variables and is more fun and rewarding to me.
