Originally Posted by
trayson
I really had no intensions of selling the Sunsport so soon. In fact, right before labor day I was modding the sunsport, adding the LED cupholder rings. On the Wednesday after Labor Day weekend, I got a private message from a guy on the Moomba Forum. Him and I had talked about surfboards and surf systems before. I'd told him that I loved his XLV and thought the color scheme was just perfect. The seating layout of the XLV put it on my list of boats that I could see myself upgrading into.
He told me that he was getting out of boating, buying some land, building a house, and focusing on motorcycle racing and gave me first option to buy his XLV. He offered it to me at a great price that made it worthwhile, even with having it shipped from Indiana to WA.
I talked to my wife and she was onboard. That Thursday after labor day I put the Sunsport up on craigslist. I got an inquiry the next day, and on that Saturday I was taking the prospective buyers out for a demo on the water. Turns out that the buyer's best friend was a guy that I've been friends with for over a decade. So it was a fantastic day on the water. Over 90 degree temps, the surf wave was as good as it'd ever been. The music was rocking and needless to say, they were enthusiastic.
He was looking for a budget turnkey surf boat, and my sunsport was honestly perfect for him. After a few sets, we drained the bags and started negotiating a price. He took delivery that night and was out on the water with his family the next day.
It took a couple weeks to get my new boat (2008 Moomba Mobius XLV 23') over to me, but it's been fantastic. I love the room, the performance. It's just a great all around boat. Hell, yesterday we were out wakeboarding and had the 650 pound center bag filled. I wanted to take a slalom run and was too lazy to drain the bag (only to refill it after because we were going to continue wakeboarding and surfing after). So I did a slalom freeski run with 650 pounds of ballast! Ha!
The XLV was a great platform to start modding too! It has a ton of modern conveniences, I ADORE the fuel injected engine. It actually uses LESS gas than the Sunsport did! So far I've cleaned up some wiring issues on the stereo, replaced the tower speakers with a Kicker HLCD setup, swapped out the trailer jack to a Fulton F2, added ratcheting/retractable rear tie downs, changed out the trailer winch to a nice Fulton, added an 1100 bag so both of the rear lockers have them, and replaced all the bungees on the racks and cargo bimini.
Over the winter I plan to install a 4 port heatercraft heater and hopefully do some LED lighting upgrades.
I'm pretty sure that this will end up being my "forever boat". I'll be happy with it for a long, long time.
