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Keep going back and forth on used boats in my budget (80k) and have found a few Mastercraft x46 in that range. Does anyone have thoughts, experience, concerns with this boat model? Any specific years to stay away from? Any known issues? Will predominately be used for wake surfing, wakeboarding/kneeboarding and tubing. Crowd size is anywhere from 5 to 13 to 15.

Got thoughts on axis (concerned about bow rise/crap vinyl/overall quality) and moomba (hard to find stronger engine in mojo/makai, rough ride, wave opinion mixed). Both of these also do not have dealers within 3 hours of me.

Mastercraft is the only dealer around me, but know nothing about x46 wakesurf capability.

Have been looking for a new (used) boat for a little while now and have really narrowed in down between the axis a24 and the moomba mojo or makai. I know people say the fit and finish is better on the moomba and people say the axis is a better wave out the box. Planning on learning to wakesurf, wakeboard, ride around, knee board and pull people on tubes.

Just wanted to get everyone’s thoughts and pro/cons to each and experience.

Also, closest moomba dealer is 2.5 hours away. Closest axis/malibu dealer is 4 hours away. (Only dealer close is Mastercraft and they are out of budget.)

Looking at a used, low hours moomba makai with the raptor 400. Does anyone have experience with these boats and their wakeboarding/surfing performance with the 400? Usually run minimum 4-5 adults to 10-12 adults. I’m at sea level and want to make sure the 400 is enough power and wake performance is good.

I know this likely has been beat to death but here we go..

Selling my azure az220 and buying my first wake boat. Trying to stay under 80k and need minimum 23 feet. I have been researching, watching videos and all and read a lot of pros and cons to almost all of them. Please bare with this list of needs/desires but hopefully listing them helps narrow down choices and recommendations.

Current boats being looked at are:

15-18 lsv23
18-21 moomba mojo
15-17 Mastercraft x23
15-17 Mastercraft x46
15-17 Supra se450/550
13-16 nautique g23/g25

Needs:

23ft or bigger (current boat is 22 and would like a little bit bigger)

Decent rough water ride (harder to find it seems). Lake we go to is small (11 miles long and 1000-1200 yards wide) so wakes from other boats have nowhere to go when real busy.

Good surf wave (learning how to surf but also don’t want to get to where I need to upgrade boats in a few years)

Good for wake boarding (should be easy)

Good for tubing and knee boarding (wife has little cousins that want to do this. A lot.)

Reliable ( there is one wakeboat dealer within 2.5 hours of me and they are a small dealer/ski school of strictly Mastercraft)

And the hardest…..water ski (dad grew up water skiing, hell bent on waterskiing behind this boat and teaching me and brothers)(will likely only happen a few times, then mainly wakeboard/surfing/tubing/knee boarding.

If you have any suggestions/what to stay away from, all help would be appreciated.