What does the best wakeboard boat look like? Engineers and designers from Axis Boats, Malibu Boats, MasterCraft Boats, Nautique Boats, Supra Boats, and Tige Boats ask themselves that question every year. And every year, we enjoy the fruits of that exercise, riding behind wakeboard boats with perfectly sculpted wakes, über-functional towers and brilliant LCD displays. Here's a closer look at the best wakeboard boat innovations of 2011.

Once you drive a boat with a dashboard control system, you’ll never want to drive a boat without one. They make life easier, they look really cool and they’re fun to use. Check out photos, videos and reviews of the best wakeboard boat dash systems of 2011.

Thanks to the roomy twin-tip bow, the MasterCraft X-45 feels bigger and offers more seating than any other 24-footer. Likewise, it offers handling and performance you wouldn’t think possible in a boat this large.

Download wallpapers of the MasterCraft X-1, MasterCraft X-2, MasterCraft X-14, MasterCraft X-15, MasterCraft X-35, MasterCraft X-45, MasterCraft X-55, MasterCraft X-80, MasterCraft CSX 220, MasterCraft CSX 265, MasterCraft Maristar 235, and MasterCraft Maristar 255 wakeboard boats from WAKEBOARDING magazine's 2009 Boat Buyers Guide...

Boat Review The MasterCraft X-45 is a best-selling wakeboard boat for the MasterCraft brand. Standing in the wide-open main cabin, it's easy to tell why. From here, you can just barely make out the wake boat's pickle-fork nose - a testament to its sheer vastness...

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...

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Wakeboard Boat Review The versatility of the MasterCraft X-45's hull and its 1,000 pounds of factory ballast make this wakeboard boat a perfect pull for all forms of wake riding. It's also a cruising machine, with a two-prong bow that busts open the usual pointed-bow seating for a lounging area that's so big you've got to see it to believe it...