New Mastercraft X26............... $200K all day.

[cjtpilot]

http://www.mastercraft.com/boat/detail/x26

Its sharp looking, but Starting price of $150K as soon as you add a trailer you are more than a totally optioned out SE550! Thanks but I will stay with Supra! Of course I can't afford either but thats beside the point.

[Zim]

http://www.mastercraft.com/boat/detail/x26

Its sharp looking, but Starting price of $150K as soon as you add a trailer you are more than a totally optioned out SE550! Thanks but I will stay with Supra! Of course I can't afford either but thats beside the point.

Eh, different class of boat.

SE is a 24 footer. X26 is 2 feet bigger and more of a day cruiser. Nice boat, stupid expensive... Let someone else take the 100k depreciation hit on that thing over a few years and pick it up in 20 years or so when they can't be given away.

[pridekit]

It seems really narrow for 26'. I can't imagine my boat being 5 foot longer with the same beam.

[cadunkle]

Overall my reaction to a 26' towboat with a head, fridge and bow thruster... I just don't get it. Given the choice I'd take the SA or whatever we were talking about in the other thread?

[Zim]

102" beam is the largest that can be towed without any special permits... that's why. Pretty standard in the towable boat industry.

[pridekit]

I don't know, my buddy would appreciate it if I had a head on my boat. I'm not sure that I want to clean it out though lol.

[Zim]

Overall my reaction to a 26' towboat with a head, fridge and bow thruster... I just don't get it. Given the choice I'd take the SA or whatever we were talking about in the other thread?

It's butting into the I/O bow rider segment. You want a Cobalt, or you want this thing to cruise around on the Ozarks and have an occasional tow behind the boat? This is not a good boat to put on some 300 acre private lake, but that's not its intentions. If you've ever been on a 40,000 acre lake, they get choppy, and this would handle that superbly while you shuttle all your buddies around from bar to bar, or head to a cove to spend the day.

Supra doesn't even have anything in the same class... there's really nothing to compare it to.

[Wulphie]

I don't get spending that kind of money on a boat that doesn't do anything great. for 200k you could buy a low hour xstar and a low hour formula 353 fastech with a pair of 525s and have 2 boats that serve their purpose very well.

[MJHKnox]

My buddy had that boat, the 353 Formula w/ 525s and Bravos. Fun boat in choppy waters. Well built.


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[cadunkle]

Indeed. I boat on a large river so I know what it's like having white caps or just random walls of water from tugs, barges, or huge ships. My thought was it would make more sense to have a cruiser than that MC, though a go fast could serve well too. Would be nice to have something like a Chris Craft Commander as a home base or mothership for a day or weekend on the river. Heck, for the price of that thing you could have a ~40' cruiser, ~40' go fast and a wake or ski boat too... Heck, a wake boat and a ski boat too. Why compromise with a boat that doesn't do anything all that well?