'98 Sport

Love my 98 Sport. H/W you are correct, it does have the TSC decal on windshield. Also you did foot behind a 98..., remember Lake Shangri-la

Mine does have the GT-40, if you can find one with that it sure is nice, we paid $17k with a tick over 500 hours in June of 09. The pics of the stern area on the Gen 1 Sport and Gen 2 Sport, IMHO, really show a dramatic difference.

Slalom wake is more like Weitekamps Ski Nautique (96 maybe), M3Fans 99 Ski is just a little bit flatter/smaller. All and all I think it skis great. With 2 200 lb guys in the stern seat it throws a pretty big wakeboard wake.

Just another data point.

No question about it Kevin. When you posted the pictures it was very clear that the '98 is narrower in the chine cut-out than the '97. What made you dig this up now?

I've still never driven or skied behind a '93-'97 Sport, would like to do so to compare.

I'm happy to report that with the help of this thread I did end up with a '98 and love the boat! Definitely glad I ended up with a GT-40.

Hollywood wrote: lewy2001 wrote: Hollywood looks like Jody has confirmed that it is narrower. I know this is a 4 year old thread but this still bothers me. Jody (and so did myself and The Dude) confirmed the new hull is narrower at the transom.

I thought that everyone agreed the 98 was narrower in the chine cutout area

The 98 hull is 145cm (57") across that chine cutout dimension for the record.

Need someone with a '93-'97 to measure and post, just so we have it on record. Keith ???

One thing that surprises me - not knowing diddly about hull design, but if you narrow the running surface at the stern I'd expect the stern to "drop" in just a bit more, which would increase wake size. Yet it's the opposite, by all accounts I've read the '98 up has a better slalom wake. I guess the inboard prop angle is lifting the stern all the time to counteract that.

I was thinking the same thing. I would guess that so many factors work together, shaft angle, engine placement, how much hook, that it's easy for us to look at one factor but not know all the details that went into a design change.

One thing I want to do after re-reading this thread. Go for a ski with my usual trunk full of junk and other stuff in the boat. Then strip it down, low fuel, empty trunk, remove back seat, and see what the wake difference feels like.