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All, this boat is still available. If there is someone interested to take it before winter, I'd let it go at $3700. Otherwise price goes back up in the spring! Paying a commission (or donation to a charity of your choice) of $100 as well if a baller initiates the sale.

@Moffattra that's tough to compete with. Can't offer "assets" like that! Fixed link. Thanks.

As many of you probably picked up on my other thread, we've moved on to a different boat. As such our American Skier is for sale in the UP of Michigan. Chevy 350 block, Indmar marine. We're the 3rd owner and have had it for 10 years. We bought the boat with very little hours and have done quite a bit to it since it sat. Every since, it's been a good boat for us and we've made lots of memories. I'd say for 1987, it's pretty much as expected. Asking $4500 but will work with ballers to ensure a fair price. https://up.craigslist.org/boa/d/1987-american-skier-advance/6657094972.html Spread the word if you don't mind!

@UWSkier when we took it for a test drive, she took three swipes with the slalom ski and dropped the rope. I thought "crap...that's not good". She hopped in the boat, didn't say anything and grabbed her trick ski. I was sweating bullets by this point because we drove 7 hours one way to drive this thing. Thought for sure she was going to be pretty bummed. Turns out she didn't want the seller (who was SUPER cool btw) to see how excited she was about the wake. She's a keeper ;-). It's a great boat. We looked at a couple sunsetters too but the hours, location of the sale, and prices just didn't quite match up.

After all this we went with the Supra. Thanks a million for all the input and suggestions. We’re super excited and have put some hours on the boat already. Kids couldn’t wait to wash and wax it!

@bmalec east end as in south entry? Or close to portage Lake? We will look for you. We live right in town on the water so maybe you’ll need a “real” pull behind a “real” craft. No courses right now in town. One in twin lakes and one in lac la belle.

Yes. Going to drive both the Supra and a sunsetter at this point. After which we will re evaluate. The extra length on the sunsetter is pretty compelling. I’ll be interested to drive them both and ski them both.

Nobody get any ideas on that boat. It’s probably mine (haha)

@vtmecheng sounds about right. We tell unbeleivable stories because nobody will come up to validate them

@UWSkier or any of the others that have offered great advise: we're headed out this week to look at a few boats. Couple Sunsetter LXI's, and thanks to another baller we have a couple of 197's. In the meantime anyone know anything about the early 2000's comp LTS similar to this: https://detroit.craigslist.org/mcb/boa/6650034738.html ???

@epnault we live In Houghton. Where ya from!?

@Jmoski the moment was related to seeing some milky oil. I seem to have that licked at though. There are a host of other smaller issues with the boat. The words ticking time bomb come to mind. It's just a boat and it wouldn't ruin our life to not have one, but I wouldn't mind getting ahead of the curve. Sounds like general consensus is to stick with a DD, and one that keeps coming up is the Response or Sunsetter LXI. Might start there.

Thanks all! Will be on the lookout for the above suggestions. That sunsetter for 19k actually seems like a decent deal.

@UWSkier good questions: 1) usually it's the four of us. 2) Kids do bring friends, but we try to limit it to one. Mostly because I'm lazy and don't want to be responsible for other kids. 3) No length requirements, BUT it'd sure be nice if we kept it under 3600# so I don't have to buy a new lift! 4) Wife does lots of trick and swivel skiing. If we could surf it, that would be an enormous plus but I realize that's asking a ton. We do have friends with surf boats but it would be fun. 5) We do run the boat down to our friends (about a 20 minute run at 30mph) regularly. We do not use it for pontooning, however, as we do have one of those. So larger family adventures for dinner cruises usually take place on the pontoon. Thanks!

Story time: 10 years ago we were younger, didn't have kids, and could ski whenever. We purchased a P.O.S. American Skier that we nursed back to life and the thing has been ticking ever sense. It owes us nothing and has been a GREAT ski boat. Wife is a serious/dedicated skier. Grew up with it, skied on a pro level. I ski rather recreationally but really only slalom. I guess I'm fine at it and typically give er' as often as possible. Wife does it all. We have two kids picking up on skiing; one just learning, and the other working on dropping a ski. We go through the "should we get a boat" discussion every year. So hard to justify with a perfectly capable boat that has probably the best 30 to 36mph wake I have EVER seen. But alas, it doesn't come without it's rather significant challenges. This year we had a little "oh shit" moment with our boat and thought it's probably time to start getting a little more serious. We live on a lake. We spend significant time on the water. Wife is off in the summer and they mess around and sends me pictures of them out on the boat during the day while I'm fighting the man for tps reports and pc load letter errors. As such, we would like to get a boat that we'll keep for the next 10,15, or heck...even 20 years. We live in Upper MI (think above Wisconsin and closer to MN). We are completely open to options and have limited criteria: -Prefer less than $25k -Prefer open bow -Prefer less than 600 hours -Please, no projects. I don't have time to take a crap and read BoS as it is. Other than that, we are open to a V drive, direct drive, big, small, pink, blue----whatever. Sorry for the long post. Please send along anything you've seen or even better, something you personally know is available.