New for 2019

[korey]

I had the lucky opportunity to spend the evening on a '19 SE550 this Sunday!

HO-LEE-CRAP! The fit and finish of the boat is just spectacular. I've put 92 hours on my '18 Craz now and am exceedingly happy with it, but the differences are amazing. Every single thing that you touch is an order of magnitude nicer. Most things that are purchased components on the Moomba are finely custom machined, anodized, and precision fit on the Supra. Every hinge, and moving part is custom and has bushings and bearings, etc, etc. The boat feels like it will last a lifetime, whereas the Moomba frankly does not. That being said, you basically just add a “1” to the beginning of the MSRP to go from my Craz to a loaded up SE, so the whole experience really just made me appreciate what I’ve got a little more…

The dealer that I bought my boat from (Denney Marine in Albany, KY) are family friends of one of my old buddy's family and are neighbors on the houseboat dock on Lake Cumberland – in the process sof buying this boat they’ve all become friends of ours too! I went to catch up with my old buddy and the Denneys had several badass toys out: '19 SE, and SA plus a few new Seadoos and a South Bay pontoon with a 400 on it. Add to that another neighbor's '18 SL, my '18 Craz and m buddy's family's '18 Mojo, and we were a floating Skier's choice advertisement!

After some backslapping about how happy we are with the Craz, Leon (dealership owner) asked if we were going surfing behind the SE with them! We were trying to head home (the sun was headed down and we had a 30 minute boat ride and a 2 hour tow to get home before work in the morning), but of course I couldn’t resist. We hopped in with about 6 or 8 others of varying skill, filled the boat up and let her rip. I was up first and rode the Hyperlite Automatic that they had onboard. Right out of the box, the wave was taller than my Craz (even with an extra 1500lbs added to my Craz), WAAAAAY longer and mega clean with a steep lip. It was kind of everything at once! We didn’t do a single bit of messing with anything, just filled it up and ran Autowake! I took a pretty short turn since I really was trying to get home and there were probably 8 people wanting to ride. Once I got out of the water, Leon “asked’ if I would take the driver’s seat so he could do some coaching. Of course, LOL! Obvious sales move there, but hey, I’ll take it. More of the same impression about all of the “touch points” on the boat from the helm. It truly is spectacular! I was a little overwhelmed by the touch screens at first, but I ended up finding everything I needed. I didn’t love the stereo controls on the screen, and struggled to find the lights when I needed them, but that’s just a little learning curve. The power seat is pretty ridiculously badass (I’m 6’4, 260 and the previous driver was 5’8”, 160). I also noticed that visibility was better in the SA running 9 degrees of pitch than my Craz running about the same. The seat probably had some to do with that. It hit it’s autowake numbers right out of the box, whereas my Craz seems to need some time to adjust. I pulled all of the other riders. The 575 is a freaking animal! It didn’t feel like a 25 (or is it 26) foot boat! Easily got on plane and ran about 40 with 8 adults and full ballast on the ride back to the dock!

We did seem to “loose” some front ballast into the bilge (wave got shorter as we rode, and I saw the front bilge pump come on a few times), so they’ll be looking into that back at the shop this week.

All-in-all, I completely understand the “ultra-premium” boats now. If you have the means, I highly recommend it, LOL! For me, it was a fun experience that will have to wait a few (or many many) years to even become a dream…

My pictures were taken by my lady and do not do the wave justice. I was either behind the boat or in the drivers seat the whole time – which I can’t complain about!