[mikesnowman]

I am thinking of upgrading my Z200 to a bigger open bow... 252 or 272. Question is how is the watersports behind them? Are they too big or ok. Kids will be learning to ski this summer and am a bit concerned?

[csterner]

The only concern I could see would be that you would be putting out a little bigger wake than your current boat. We tube and ski behind ours and some of my kids did learn behind ours and there were no problems at all. I really don't think the wake is that much larger, but it is bigger! I have a friend that has a 45' and you should see the wake behind that sucker when they go tubing!

[garyg]

WE HAVE A 2000 Z 272 OPEN BOW 454 MPI BRAVO 3.WE PULL KIDS TUBING AND SKING WITH NO PROBLEMS. THERE IS A VIDIO MADE LAST SUMMER SHOWING US PULLING TUBES BEHIND OUR BOAT. JUST TYPE IN "" SUMMER FUN AT PARIS LANDING" HAVE ANY OYHER OUESTIONS JUST DROP ME A LINE GARY G YOU also can find it on you tube under "" BOATING AND TUBING AT PARIS LANDING"

[mikeyt]

Hey Mike.... if you want to be absolutely certain that it will work, go ahead and purchase the boat then send it to me for the summer and i will test it out for you.

[Dredd]

I wakeboard and pull tubes with my 27' boat too. It gets up on plane and handles so well at low speeds with the Bravo III that it is actually a little easier to drive than a boat with an Alpha drive, imo.
I just wakeboard further back, where the wake is a little bit cleaner, than on a smaller boat. It does feel like it looks a little funny being behind a boat that big, lol, but it works fine.

[Oregondunes]

we do it all behind our 302 just fine.

[rajjneef]

So depending on what you mean by skiing. There is a difference between what you want for wakeboarding and skiing. (and tubing as well) If you mean ski as in slaloming on the level of say a mastercraft etc. then its going to be too big. If you just technically want to get up on ski's then of course you can. I have some buddies who wouldn't even bother trying to ski behind my boat. But I wouldn't hesitate to yank up my daughters for an hour of fun.