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Hello everyone,
I am new on the site and saw a great post about the history of the 1995-1997 190 prostar, 19 skier and x-5 hull. I have always liked the look of that hull and have a few questions for the people that own those boats.
I currently have a 19 foot I/o chaparral and I am considering selling it and moving to a direct drive boat.
Before I buy a new to me boat it needs to meet the following criteria:
Serve as the only boat for a family of four. We primarily will have only four people in the boat but on rare occasions would need to fit up to eight.
Be able to fit in a standard garage, I won't leave my stuff out overnight.
I would like to keep the weight of the boat and trailer under 5000 lbs because we like to boat at a lot of different places and don't want to tow a heavy surf boat all over the state.
Be set up to teach young kids all different types of water sports.
And the most important criteria is that is has to have a comfortable ride for my wife.
I realize that the hull was a competition level hull so it is designed for that purpose, however, how does that hull handle rough water. 90% of our boating is done on larger public lakes or flowages in Wisconsin (Lake Wisconsin, Castle Rock, Minocqua Chain and Three Lakes Chain) that can all get pretty rough. I have never ridden in this hull design but have ridden in some older prostars and barefoot 200 that I will admit are great for skiing, but I would not want to be in them on a busy Weekend afternoon.
Please give me your honest feed back. I think that is boat would serve us well but I am a little concerned that it would ride a lot rougher than our current runabout.
I am new on the site and saw a great post about the history of the 1995-1997 190 prostar, 19 skier and x-5 hull. I have always liked the look of that hull and have a few questions for the people that own those boats.
I currently have a 19 foot I/o chaparral and I am considering selling it and moving to a direct drive boat.
Before I buy a new to me boat it needs to meet the following criteria:
Serve as the only boat for a family of four. We primarily will have only four people in the boat but on rare occasions would need to fit up to eight.
Be able to fit in a standard garage, I won't leave my stuff out overnight.
I would like to keep the weight of the boat and trailer under 5000 lbs because we like to boat at a lot of different places and don't want to tow a heavy surf boat all over the state.
Be set up to teach young kids all different types of water sports.
And the most important criteria is that is has to have a comfortable ride for my wife.
I realize that the hull was a competition level hull so it is designed for that purpose, however, how does that hull handle rough water. 90% of our boating is done on larger public lakes or flowages in Wisconsin (Lake Wisconsin, Castle Rock, Minocqua Chain and Three Lakes Chain) that can all get pretty rough. I have never ridden in this hull design but have ridden in some older prostars and barefoot 200 that I will admit are great for skiing, but I would not want to be in them on a busy Weekend afternoon.
Please give me your honest feed back. I think that is boat would serve us well but I am a little concerned that it would ride a lot rougher than our current runabout.
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