Are green boats bad luck?

[Horton]

The wife wants a green boat and I told her no because they are bad luck.

[Jody_Seal]

The safe answer: may I get you a glass of wine?

[Rednucleus]

LOL great memory of my buddy's 1st boat we called the Green Hemorrhoid - an old green runabout with an even older 55 hp Evinrude. Ran great till it got warm, then the coil would short out until it cooled off. We learned to ski up river with a cooler of beer. When it quit we just drifted back to the launch - Good Times!

[Than_Bogan]

Green boats are the best. Or at least they were before they replaced "green" with "ultra-glow-burn-your-eyes-green."

[eleeski]

When the hull gets green algae growing on it, you have to waste a day cleaning it. So yes, they are bad luck when they turn green.

 

Eric

[thager]

Especially if your name is Kermit and you are in the water with Miss Piggy driving. Happy wife, longer life!

[BlueSki]

And now the boat already has a name.

[Orlando76]

I say they are bad luck because, well, look at them, they’re fugly. But every Ski Nautique built in latter 97 and all of 98 was Masters Green so somebody must like it.

[6balls]

If my wife says I can have a new boat...I don't care it it's periwinkle.

[mmskiboat]

It really depends on the color and accents. When we were looking for a boat we found one we called Hulk, 2013 PS with tower and ballast. The ugliest green, bright and no contrast inside at all. Just green on green for days. Terrible. We then found a 2014 PS that was green and looked amazing, nice color and contrast.

 

Since you keep a boat for such a short time it does not really matter, selling might be a little harder but if done well I think it would be fine.

 

[swc5150]

If teal counts, yes...and good luck selling it.

[liquid d]

 

Betty Lou has been good to me for 21 years.....Thanks to Jody!

 

[PatM]

I would have loved a green boat. Mostly because I'm Irish and love the color. My buddy has a 1998 Sport Nautique that is green. That boat has given him little to no issues and it is not the most well cared for boat either.

[PatM]

Green metal flake with black trim=Sweet

[WoodySkier]

I saw a green and black ProStar for sale last summer, it was really sharp

[cougfan]

One of my ski buddies has a green 1998 Malibu Sportster that looks like new and is still running strong with almost 900 hrs. I have a 2002 Malibu Sunsetter LXI with 400hrs that is also green and wouldn’t trade it for anything.

[Drago]

Can't get green until you follow through on pink.

Then some green, but not primarily

[Horton]

@Drago as soon as I convince someone at MasterCraft that pink* metal flake will resale I will get it. ( They are not going for it)

 

* Buford Danger wants "dark pink sparkle" which is close to raspberry

 

 

[Cent]

Go green you will be glad you did.

 

I have had two green boats. Both were easy to look at and ran great.

[gregy]

Years ago when I was in the boat business we hardest time selling green boats. Usually they got discounted and sold in the winter.

[mmskiboat]

@Horton Maybe this article will help the cause:

 

We bought a pink waterski boat. Seriously, it was almost ridiculous - who buys a pink waterski boat? Well we did, because, in what seemed like one day, my husband went from being a normal patriarch of a boating family, to a man crazily obsessed with waterskiing. None of us could have imagined what the pink ski boat and the sport of waterskiing would come to mean to our family.

 

https://www.boatingmag.com/pink-boat/

[Sethro]

 

Depends on the green. I don’t think they offer a “classy” green like this anymore.

 

[liquid d]

How does that connect to your truck?

[alex38]

 

[Wish]

Masters Green Ski Nautique..best boat color combo ever.

 

 

[Shell]

Green Boats are just Plain "UGLY !"

[PatM]

@wish Same color scheme as my buddy's 98 Sport Nautique

[thager]

@Shell Not if you're irish!

[RAWSki]

I have to admit I did like Mike Brendel's first MB190 which was nicknamed "Kermit"

 

[skier2788]

Love my 02 wish I could get this green on a new boat....

 

 

[PatM]

These are great looking green boats. Almost bought the first one, but no way did I want a black bottom boat (which should be another opinion poll).

[ALPJr]

Check out this one. Must haul a... and almost no wake. http://www.ski-it-again.com/php/skiitagain.php?endless=summer&topic=Search&category=Boat_3Event&postid=53617

[Wish]

That's a lot of boat for 30k. 2009 SN with ZO are selling for that. If the wakes were juuuust a little bit softer.... But that motor...wow

 

[dshock]

 

That was my boat - for what its worth, it was difficult to sell. I got a lot of comments about the green. It is a love/hate thing. Far more comments about the green than the black bottom. But, it was also a 5.3l and had just had a brand new motor put in it because of some warranty work gone bad (by me).

 

My last three boats have been black or black metal flake and reef blue (teal). They have looked great and the first one sold in a flash (I still have the other two and haven't really started pushing them for sale 2015 200 and 2019 SN). The 2019 will be on TNT's website, shortly, if you are interested.

 

Thanks,

Dan

[Sethro]

@liquid d it doesn’t attach to the truck. It’s just a trailer converted to a dolly as a winch pulls it up the tracks.

 

[fu_man]

@Sethro the boat is nice, but that setup is AWESOME!

[BraceMaker]

@Sethro surprised you haven't made more of an access to the front bow eye?

[Sethro]

@BraceMaker I'm not sure what you mean? When the boat floats on the dolly, the bow eye is actually embedded in that bumper at the "v" of the trailer due to the angles involved with the rails. The nose of the boat slowly rises to the height you see it as the hull comes in contact with the bunks. Someday I will actually cut the front of the dolly off, and weld two uprights that will contact the rub rail on each side to facilitate placing the boat in the right spot front to back.

[BraceMaker]

@Sethro just mean that looking at it in your garage it would seem that you could make a V cradle that bolted the the trailer that wrapped around the side such that when it was in the garage you had easier access up onto the boat and that you could walk around and clip it when it was in the water. Almost like a narrow carpeted dock bolted to the side of the trailer as access.

[Sethro]

@BraceMaker Ahhhh, I see what you mean. I can easily clip it from my dock, and the dolly actually has a little step on the very end to help get into the boat. But that would be the ultimate in ease of access.