Overview Sure, the Malibu VTX's easy-to-store size is a perfect fit for wakeboarders and wakeskaters on length-restricted waterways, but this 20-footer is packed with the rider- and family-friendly features of a much larger wakeboard boat...

Wakeboard Boat Review Don’t discriminate against the MasterCraft MariStar 215 just because it doesn’t have the ever-popular pickle-fork bow design. In its third model year, the MasterCraft MariStar 215 has plenty of top-notch design behind it thanks to MasterCraft’s research and development department and with just the optional 650-pound factory ballast system it creates some impressive-sized wakes...

Wakeboard Boat Review It has room for 18 people, a beefy wake and the cool new VDIG dash display. The MasterCraft MariStar 245 is a perfect choice for someone equally interested in great wakeboarding and great company on the water...

Wakeboard Boat Review Seeing a MasterCraft MariStar SS280 on the dock is like seeing a monster truck in the mall parking lot — it sticks out like a sore thumb but, man, is it cool. What kind of wakeboarder lays out well into the six figures for this water-sports yacht? One with a big family, lots of friends and larger lakes and waterways...

Wakeboard Boat Review The MasterCraft X-15 looks like a traditional wakeboard boat now that so many X-Series models have the pickle-fork bow. But in its third model year, the MasterCraft X-15 is pretty state-of-the-art, with the collective mind power of MasterCraft’s research and development department (which has its own building at company HQ) creating impressive-sized wakes with only the 650-pound factory ballast system...

Wakeboard Boat Review With any other wakeboard boat company, the MasterCraft X-45 would be the biggest, baddest model in the lineup. MasterCraft’s got the monster 28-foot X-80, though. Still, the MasterCraft X-45 shouldn’t be overshadowed...

Wakeboard Boat Review It was funny that we traveled 3,000 miles to see this Malibu Wakesetter VLX near Malibu’s headquarters when we could have just stayed in Orlando to ride behind it. Chad Sharpe has one, Philip Soven has one, Dallas Friday has one, Brian Grubb has one ...

Wakeboard Boat Review When Malibu asked if we wanted to keep this Malibu Wakesetter 247 LSV wakeboard boat for the rest of the day to, uh, test it further, we were beyond stoked. This is the biggest V-drive wakeboard boat in Malibu’s lineup and probably the biggest wraparound lounge ever for this size boat...

Wakeboard Boat Review This Malibu Wakesetter VTX wakeboard boat thinks it’s bigger than it is. Basically, this boat wants to be just like the Malibu Wakesetter VLX and Malibu Wakesetter 23 LSV, the flagship wakeboard boats of the lineup, yet do it all in a 20-foot package...

Wakeboard Boat Review We sometimes go weeks or months without getting behind the wheel of a direct-drive wakeboard boat. Then on a sunny morning near Malibu’s California factory, we stepped into the Malibu Wakesetter 21 XTi and zigzagged across Lake Tulloch like we were in a Maserati...

Wakeboard Boat Review We give Correct Craft a lot of credit for making this Super Air Nautique 220 wakeboard boat different from the Super Air Nautique 210 and Super Air Nautique 230, and not just in the length of the boat...

Wakeboard Boat Review We know it’s a reality for a lot of riders that the waterskiers in the family hold the purse strings. And those skiers may not be ready to buy a core wakeboard boat. No problem...

Wakeboard Boat Review While wakeboard boats have gotten longer and wider in the past few years, this Crossover Nautique 211 is a real throwback. It’s less than 21 feet long and less than 8 feet across with performance that actually attracts skiers, too, rather than frightens them away...

Wakeboard Boat Review Correct Craft’s Crossover Nautique lineup has proved to be a solid addition to the Air Nautique models. For 2008, the Crossover Nautique 226 is making its debut, and we like it because it’s not just the same wakeboard boat, different size...

Wakeboard Boat Review Supra’s direct-drive Launch 20 might be the bridge between the two water-sports worlds, serving up crossover performance likely to please wakeboarders as well as skiers who might sometimes use the boat...