Bayliner "Looks Like A Ski Natique"

I had to go looking.....did find one.

Not a boat for me.

you can own the real thing for the same money! or less

Soulscream wrote: my bayliner looks just like my air nautique...........when they are 20' under water

I once mistakenly got into my bro-in-laws bayliner instead of my super air,then I realized"hey,there's no tower on this boat".That's the only real difference.


     Mike

Looks more like an Elan than anything else.

should call it "Ski Challenged"

Ahh the late eighties "electric pulse" bayliner design theme I know it well, I was working at a summer camp 5-6 years later and we got all our boats through donations so I had my spent a lot of time in decaying bayliners of that era. Learned how to barefoot on a 85hp bayliner capri which was the fastest boat we had (37mph trimmmed all the way up with one guy or two girls in it). What we wouldnt have given for any sort of inboard, even a bayliner.

Are Bayliners any good or are they just disposable boats? I see a lot of them on the water that are relatively new but none more than about 10 years old. One of my friends was talking about buying one. I told him he better take it out with a couple of people in it and ski behind it firstto make sure it will pull him up.

Sorry guys, I shouldn't pick on another brand of boat. A boat is a boat. I know they're cheap to buy and very suspect quality, that's all I know. Mike, I apologize, dude. I know you're eying a 07 with a tower.

Ken

I wasn't aware of that. Sea Ray's have always been decent in my opinion. Guess it's the sign of the times.

Ken

in the boat US family it goes from cheapest to not cheapest bayliner-maxum-sea ray similar to ford-mercury-lincoln. I have been on a 2003 maxum I would consider a nice family I/O, yes sea rays are not the premium boats they were at one time, bayliners not completely useless if its all you can afford but they require a lot of care to keep them looking good and whether they deserve it or not the reputation for being junk is definitely there and definitely effects resale value.

The eighties was not a good time us boat construction in general, chopper guns were flyin all over the place.... people actually made seats out of wafer board and in some cases particle board, floors in many cases out of uncoated plywood, a couple years uncovered and these boats would turn to mush

Grew up skiing behind a bayliner, not to bad of a ski boat if your under 75 lbs. I beleive ours was a 86 model, with a bullet proof, gutless, fuel effeicent, volvo penta. Finally killed it in the mid 90's when the marina did there spring tune up, and forgot to put oil in it. My sister was taking it from the boat ramp to the lift and the motor would quit running, after she let it sit a while it would start back up. She said she figured out if she left it wide open it would run a while longer. Needless to say it didn't make it back to the lift. They must have great starters in them. I still think if your going to be life long boaters like my family, it's probably cheaper to just cough up the dough for a nautique in the first place and do some real skiing.

I had an 89 Rinker 206 before I got my M17. I sold it on eBay for the same price I bought it for. Of course, I had put a tower on it and rebuilt the stern drive, but it was a solid reliable boat and we skied behind it every day for two summers.

That said, I like my M17 infinitely better. The wake is beautiful, the boat is cla$$ic, and it's fast as a rocket.