When clicking through the 2013 Boat Buyers Guide we all dream of ordering up one of the hottest new flagship boats, but sometimes we need to scale it down a bit. Still wanting to enjoy all that a wakeboard board can give you, but making a commitment to the top of the line boats will have to wait a year or two?

In case you have been living under a rock, wakesurfing has planted itself firmly in the world of wake-tivities. In the last few years there has been an explosion of participants clamoring to catch that eternal ride...

2013 is the year of the flagship boat. This year’s Boat Buyers Guide displays huge innovations in boat hull design and performance features that have been made in the recent past to give you the list of boats in front of you...

Whether you call them pickle forks, snub noses or hammerheads, wide-open bow designs are more popular than ever in wakeboard boats. In fact, virtually every wakeboard boat builder in our 2013 Boat Buyers Guide has at least one boat with some variation of the wide-bow design...

Find the best wakeboard boat for you with TransWorld WAKEBOARDING's 2013 Wakeboard Boat Buyers Guide. Watch TransWorld WAKEBOARDING editors guide you through three dozen of this year's best wakeboard boats from Axis Boats...

Epic is celebrating a decade of building wake boats this year, and it created this special-edition 10th Anniversary 23v to commemorate the occasion. LEDs blanket the special-edition graphic on both sides of the boat in a red glow...

From the fuss-free interior to wakeboarding’s biggest ballast system, Epic’s flagship 23v is a utilitarian wake machine designed at every step with riders in mind. It comes standard with a massive, 3,600-pound hard-tank setup, which creates a wall of water with tons of straight-up pop to ride behind..

With the 21v, Epic has packed the ride-first ethos of its flagship 23v into a compact, easy-to-use package.

From its fuss-free interior to wakeboarding’s biggest ballast system, the Epic 23V is a utilitarian wake machine that was designed at every step with riders in mind.

Boat Review Epic doesn't build its Epic 23v as a multisport, luxury-cruising, parents-going-for-a-tour-around-the-lake kind of boat. Nope, this is just a hard-core utilitarian wakeboarding machine. It throws off a massive wake, thanks to 4,000 pounds of factory ballast...

Wakeboard Boat Review OK, we’ve called other wakeboard boats “wake machines,” but this Epic 23V really is. Pretty much, the Epic 23V's sole purpose for existing is to plow more than 7,000 pounds — that’s 3,200 pounds of dry weight and 4,000 (!) in ballast — through the water to throw up monster wakes...

Check out our Virtual Test Drive of the Epic 23V, complete with our video of the wakeboarding wakes during our epic boat test session to review this 2008 model. Click Here to take a Virtual Test Drive...

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When Epic launched last year, it didn't hold anything back, stacking its flagship boat, the 23V, with so many standard wake-specific components and gear that there's really no such thing as an option on this ride...

Epic has one goal in mind: build a better wake boat. From primitive drawings to complex CAD simulations, Epic constructed models and then molds. Testing and retesting led to lots of riding.

Everything about this boat has been geared to the rider's enjoyment of the interior and the wake-specific design of this machine...