Originally Posted by
sandm
Mentioning axis and not wanting to jump brands, axis makes 3 boats, 20/22/24. all wakeboard great and all surf not great. to get a surfboat, you are not going to even shop axis. I think(entirely imo) skiers has done a good job from what I see selling supra into the wakeboat market considering the SA/SC, both fantastic wakeboats, but if the SC is anything like the SA, decent but not top notch surfboats(yet I hear) and Moomba has churned out the Mojo(surf), the Mondo(not seen anything but looks to be a surf-specific hull) and the addition of more freeboard to the LSV to allow more weight to surf. It really feels like they have produced a good line of boats that fit most needs.
I would not disagree that wakeboarding is still more popular than surfing, but at the end of the day, pull the demographics of who are signing contracts for new boats and I would bet money it's very slanted toward the 35 and up crowd, not the 35 and under crowd. When you compare what people in the 35 and under group are doing, it's slanted toward boarding and the 35 and over set are surfing so which demographic are you going to market your product toward?