Model 2001 Ride Quality

86ER wrote: I also enjoy the solo 47MPH run around the lake near sunset when the lake is calm.

Hot laps! Lol

I'm sure the skiers trying to get the only bit of calm water love when you do this.

These boats are like sports cars. Sports cars have stiff suspensions, we have generally flat bottom hulls. They were designed for ONE thing only, and that's to drive 32-36 mph through a course on glassy water. Anything else is what it is. I didn't buy a Ski Nautique to do 35 through huge waves and chop like my friends bayliner. However, he can barely pull up a combo skier let alone a slalom.

Gary S wrote: Your driving a flat bottom 30 odd years old tournament ski boat,one of the best of its day. When was the last time you saw a competition skier taking on 1 foot waves? They were not made for that anymore than a Donzi was made for tournament skiing. It is what it is..

Very well stated.

What Tim said, Any flat bottom boat in that much chop will ride crappy. The 2001 is CC's first decent rough water flat bottom boat. They get better as they go on to newer models.

Other brand flat bottoms are completely useless on anything other than glass water. 2001 is tolerable in chop if you keep the speed below 20.

They will also take the beating of rough water much much better than off brands.

The mushy boats I've driven still feel pretty darn solid. Thick hulls, glass schedules on the stringers and floor, engine cradle... These boats are pretty robust. That said, any flat bottom boat is going to struggle in 1-2' chop. Keep the speed down (15-20) and the nose up and you'll be ok.

If you think Sn's ride poorly in rough water, you've clearly never been in a similar MC, supreme, etc. SN's are hands down the best riding flat bottom tournament ski boats made (2001+).

So I am gonna throw my two cents in. I have a fleet of 1990's v-drive boats (deep-v) hulls. I recently bought a "2001 hull" boat. I took my kids out in it for 20 minutes in some choppy water. My kids begged me if you could go home and get our "real" boat.   You will pound your brains out in anything that resembles a chop. I am almost done with a 1991 barefoot Nautique that I'm gonna sell. You'd love these boats. Cut through the waves like butter.

The lake where I'm using my boat can regularly develop a chop of 1 to 2 feet on the downwind side. The ride over a 1 foot chop appears extremely harsh to me, and pretty much loosens your fillings if you ride over another boats wake at anything over 25 mph, not to mention the fact that the boat feels like it's rattling to pieces. If I am approaching another boats wake, I'll generally throttle back to about 15 mph so I don't beat the boat to death. I realize that this hull wasn't necessarily designed to slice through waves, but it seems to me that the boat should feel much more solid than it does . I'm wondering if what I'm experiencing is a clear indication that the stringers are fried. To the best of my knowledge, they have never been repaired or replaced.

I've never driven one of these boats before this season, so I'd like to get some feedback from owners regarding the ride quality of the 2001 model over chop or boat wakes. Comments from anyone who has driven one both before and after stringer replacement would be a great help.