Wave Runners

[jekjr]

Anybody on here know anything about older model Yamaha wave runners. I bought a Yamaha VXR for what I hope is a cheap price. I have never owned or ridden one before.

 

[Mini Motors]

The model you state is a bit newer than my experience. The very first Yamaha water craft weren't too reliable, but otherwise okay. I used to work at a motorcycle/jetski dealer. But my advice is to take a safe boating course from your local office of U.S. Power Squadron or Coast Guard Auxiliary. Jetski's aren't well liked in the boating world, and if you can run according to the rules, you'll ruffle less feathers. And before you say something like "I've been boating all my life", I'd tell you the same thing. But Washington D.C. requires a class, so when I started running in those waters, I took it, I learned a thing or two. Mostly about navigation.

Oh, and have fun.

 

[txzrider]

Mini Motors... I love the advice you just gave. The best thing any future pwc user will do is take a safe boating course! I am a sailboat guy and I could tell stories all day about watching these people on pwc. Falling off a bicycle will skin your knee... falling off or crashing a jetski can kill you.

 

[jekjr]

The model you state is a bit newer than my experience. The very first Yamaha water craft weren't too reliable, but otherwise okay. I used to work at a motorcycle/jetski dealer. But my advice is to take a safe boating course from your local office of U.S. Power Squadron or Coast Guard Auxiliary. Jetski's aren't well liked in the boating world, and if you can run according to the rules, you'll ruffle less feathers. And before you say something like "I've been boating all my life", I'd tell you the same thing. But Washington D.C. requires a class, so when I started running in those waters, I took it, I learned a thing or two. Mostly about navigation.

Oh, and have fun.

In my part of the world I do to know of such a class. I have done the book and got my boater's license several years ago.

 

[Parkmower]

Mini Motors... I love the advice you just gave. The best thing any future pwc user will do is take a safe boating course! I am a sailboat guy and I could tell stories all day about watching these people on pwc. Falling off a bicycle will skin your knee... falling off or crashing a jetski can kill you.

Nice! Where and what do you sail? I grew up at the mouth of the niagara river at lake Ontario.my dad runs a sailboat yard. So I've literally been sailing since before I was born. I currently own a hinterholler shark, a 24' keelboat. Used to own a laser and still love them. They are a blast in heavy wind.